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Archival source

Bestand Mensing family papers

Permanent URL
https://www.proveana.de/en/link/arv00003243
last updated
03.09.2024
Forschungskontext
  • Cultural goods and collections from colonial contexts

Basic Information

Group of reported objects
Holdings
Description
Includes: Diaries, logbooks, orders, correspondence, and passports, relating primarily to the journey of Franz Mensing as captain of the S.M.S. Prinz Adalbert, to Asia, Africa, and America, 1883-1885, with the German crown prince Friedrich Carl von Preussen on board from Genoa to Spain, 1883; and to the participation of Friedrich Carl Mensing as courier for the German Admiralstab of the Marine in the World War I German-American negotiations in Switzerland concerning the exchange of prisoners of war. Includes diaries of the Mensings housekeeper, Anna Schulz, 1899-1906.
Date of creation
1872-1964
Accession number
Hoover Institution. Archives 71004
Ortsbezug
Location
USA, Stanford, 434 Galvez Mall
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Network

Person/Corporate bodies

  • Aufbewahrende Institution
    Hoover Institution. Archives
  • Verweist auf
    Mensing, Franz
    Research reports
    Provenances of ethnographic objects from colonial contexts in Central Hesse
    03.2023

References

Research projects

  • Project reference
    Provenances of ethnographic objects from colonial contexts in Central Hesse

Links

  • Finding aids website
    https://archivfuehrer-kolonialzeit.de/mensing-family-papers-1872-1964
    Archive guide to the German Colonial Past
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