Ruth Karlsruher Eisenmann Family Collection

This collection documents the family history of the siblings Audrey and Geoffrey Eisenmann, whose ancestors lived in Württemberg and Bavaria, Germany, and worked in agricultural production, silk trade, and banking. The main families covered in the collection are the Adler, Eisenmann, Furth, Karlsruher, Regensburger, Schweizer, and Wimpfheimer families.

The collection includes an inventory of materials with biographical information provided by Audrey Eisenmann in folder 1. Materials related to each family are listed in the folder titles; these include family trees for almost every branch of the family, vital documents (birth, marriage, and death certificates), photographs, personal and business correspondence, and a few other business-related documents.

A large amount of postcards have been placed among the Karlsruher family documents because they were suggested to be items in the stamp collection of Nathan Karlsruher. These include business correspondence to Gabriel, Karl, and Nathan Karlsruher concerning their grain trading business. There is a significant amount of correspondence to Gustav Schettler, W. Reiss & Sohn, and Joseph M. Joseph, although the relationship between these individuals and the Karlsruher family is not clear. The postcards to various correspondents in folder 9 are mainly business-related. Most of the correspondents to whom they are addressed resided in Württemberg or Bavaria. Some of these correspondents’ names are family names that are prominent in the collection, including Schweizer and Kaufmann. Some of these postcards were sent from Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Argentina, Mexico, and the United States.