uwmspeccoll: Wissenschaft SamstagThis Saturday we present illustrations from Der Hausthier-Arzt (The
uwmspeccoll: Wissenschaft SamstagThis Saturday we present illustrations from Der Hausthier-Arzt (The Domestic Animal Doctor), a German-language veterinary guide geared towards farmers and ranchers published in 1881 by Brumder Verlag of Milwaukee. Milwaukee was an important center of German-American printing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and George Brumder was an integral figure in both the city’s German-American community and its publishing scene. Born to German parents in the Alsatian region of France, George Brumder emigrated to Wisconsin in 1857 at the age of 18, escorting his sister Christiana, who was betrothed to a Lutheran minister there. Soon after their marriage, he settled in Milwaukee and worked on a crew laying the cities first street car tracks. In 1864, Brumder married his wife Henriette and opened a small bookstore on Water Street. The bookstore prospered and soon the Brumder’s began printing, bookbinding, and publishing as well. By Brumder’s death in 1910, he had become the leading German-language publisher in the nation. The Brumder Collection, with the support of Brumder’s descendants, documents the prominent place of Milwaukee publishers in the history of German-language publishing in the United States. The collection contains over 500 items from both Brumder’s publishing enterprises and other Milwaukee-based German-language publishers.See more posts from the Brumder Collection here.View more Science Saturday posts here. -Olivia, Special Collections graduate intern -- source link