Scope and content

The collection consists of 14 pages of a typewritten brief history of the Community of True Inspiration (subsequently called the Ebenezer Society), now known as the Amana Society. This essay was written on the occasion of the Society's centennial on October 26, 1942; a booklet titled "The Amanas Today, Seven Historic Iowa Villages," produced by Joan Liffring Zug and John Zug in 1974.

Scope and content 5 items including essays connected with Erie County, New York: "An unwritten medical classic" by H.G. Johnson, M.D. (typewritten fair copy, 14 pages), a paper presented at the Buffalo Literary Clinic in 1937, concerning the role of John J. Moran as a volunteer subject for Dr. Walter Reed's yellow fever experiments; "History of Hamburg" (39 pages), a history of Hamburg, New York from 1630 to the 1940s by Thomas H. McKaig; and "The Ebenezer community" by McKaig (7 pages), a study of the...