'Fraktur' are decorated manuscripts or documents of early Pennsylvania-Germans and other German-American immigrants. Early fraktur (1750 forward) were hand drawn with pen and ink, and colored with watercolor paints. Read more
here and
here.
The most popular type of American fraktur was the 'taufschein', or birth and baptismal certificate.
This taufschein was created for a girl named Margaret Heller, born in 1818 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Taufschein or circa 1801 birth and baptismal certificate
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A religious poem produced in Bucks County, PA (Pennsylvania Dutch folk art) from 1785
A Pennsylvania German ornate Taufschein, or baptismal certificate, from 1788
'Fraktur' are decorated manuscripts or documents of early Pennsylvania-Germans and other German-American immigrants. Early fraktur (1750 forward) were hand drawn with pen and ink, and colored with watercolor paints. Read more here and here.
The most popular type of American fraktur was the 'taufschein', or birth and baptismal certificate. This taufschein was created for a girl named Margaret Heller, born in 1818 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania 
Taufschein or circa 1801 birth and baptismal certificate +from+1785.bmp)
A religious poem produced in Bucks County, PA (Pennsylvania Dutch folk art) from 1785
A Pennsylvania German ornate Taufschein, or baptismal certificate, from 1788
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