Lucie and Herbert Hanauer family collection

The Lucie and Herbert Hanauer Family Collection holds the papers of this couple as well as of members of their families, the Wolfs and the Hanauers. Much of the collection centers on the family members' immigration to the United States. The collection consists of correspondence, official papers such as identification documents and school certificates, and some professional documents.

Personal correspondence makes up the bulk of the collection, conveying personal greetings and news between family members and friends, and almost all of it consists of letters and postcards received by family members. The correspondence of Herbert and Lucie Hanauer is located in Series I. Although much of their correspondence is personal, there is a smaller amount of professional correspondence. Herbert Hanauer's professional correspondence and papers focus on his professional certification as a dentist, including a letter that testifies to the conferral of his German diploma as well as others that relate to the English language requirement in order for him to pursue professional certification in America. Lucie Hanauer's professional letters document her employment at the Gesellschaft für Giessereichemie (Society for Casting Chemistry), with others mentioning the firm's productions. The correspondence of other family members will be found in Series II and primarily constitutes personal letters of Selma Hanauer and Lina Owitz, although this series also contains some papers of Adolf Wolf, among which is correspondence regarding Paula Kahn and her husband Wilhelm.

Immigration and educational documentation comprise the bulk of the remainder of the collection. Papers used in the immigration of Herbert and Lucie Hanauer are located in Series I, while Selma Hanauer's immigration papers are in Series II. These include such routine documents as vaccination and naturalization certificates, passports and birth certificates. Lucie Hanauer's educational papers consist of certificates from the secondary school (Philanthropin Lyzeum) she attended in Frankfurt, Herbert Hanauer's of his doctoral diploma. A few personal papers of other family members are located in Series II.