Steiner Family (Laupheim) Collection

This collection consists of material relating to the Steiner family of Laupheim, Baden-Württemberg. It contains hundreds of letters between Hedwig Steiner and her sons Julius and Heinrich during World War One. It also includes other correspondence, vital, business, and educational documents, photographs, and paper money from Germany, France, and the Confederacy of the United States. It also contains a few pages of a late 18th or early 19th-century Haggadah in Hebrew and Judeo-German (Western European Yiddish), found in the first Various folder.

Material relating to Louis Steiner, his wife Hedwig née Reinemann, and his father Simon Steiner contains vital, business, and educational documents including birth, marriage, and death certificates; correspondence; and handwritten notebooks with literature quotes.

Materials relating to Heinrich and Julius Steiner include vital and educational documents, as well as extensive correspondence (over 500 letters and postcards) from their time in the German army during World War One. These letters and postcards are found in two large albums. Heinrich Steiner's materials include a few additional letters to him from his mother, returned to her after his death in France in 1918.

The second Various folder contains 21 published German postcards with views of France during World War One, a photocopy of the title page of "Zwischen Maas und Mosel: Armee-Abteilung von Strantz" (1917, Deutsche Photogravur AG, Siegburg), and a photocopy of the title page of "Denkmalsweihe des 1. Garde-Feldartillerie-Regimentes und seiner Kriegsformationen, des 1. Garde-Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regimentes, des 7. Garde- Feldartillerie-Regimentes, des 107. Garde- Feldartillerie-Regimentes, und des 63. Reserve- Feldartillerie-Regimentes" (1925, P. Ernstkarl Nauck). Photographs include the few photographs that were not removed to the photo collection, as well as a photocopy of the original folder noting which photographs were removed to the photograph collection.