Scope and content Street posters, tracts, prospectuses, and newspapers, printed mostly during the 1848-9 Revolution in Berlin (capital of Prussia), later collected and numbered by Andrew D. White during his stay in Berlin as the fourth U.S. Ambassador to unified Germany (1879-81). Broadsides collected by A.D. White on the national movement and revolutions in the German states, documenting the movement toward national unity and democracy there during the 1848 revolution, aka "the Spring of Nations." Most...

Abstract

"The White Collection of Historical Medallions, including, among other things, all the casts of Eichler of Berlin, namely two thousand copies of antique gems in the Royal Museum at Berlin, illustrative of ancient history and art; over five hundred casts illustrating mediaeval and renaissance history and art; some four hundred medallion portraits of eminent personages in modern history, derived from authentic portraits." Cornell University Register, 1868-69.