Portion of local electrical grid map for Pershing Park in Berlin, Iowa created in 1915. Notably, someone has scratched out "Lincoln" and penciled in "Berlin," demonstrating the pressures felt by German communities in the context of First-World-War…

Transcription of German eulogy given over grave of six-year-old Florence Anna Rehder in 1910.

Photograph of Rehder family reunion from 1946. Theodore Rehder is third from right.

Five pages from a German-language work on the English language, written in 1890 and printed by the German-American press in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Letter to Thedor Rehder from his German relative Max Rehder from Sylt in 1910.

Letter from Max Rehder in early years of First World War to relatives in Iowa. Max is notably confident and strikes a cheery tone.

Letter from Max Rehder to relatives in Iowa in 1920. He comments pessimisstically upon the post-war sitation and local business prospects.

Letter to Thedor Rehder from his German relative Max Rehder from Zurich in 1922.

Letter to Theodor Rehder from Max Rehder in January 1923 from Sylt, Germany.

Letter to Theodor Rehder from Max Rehder in 1928 from Sylt, Germany. He discusses his current inability to repay a loan to Theodor, the Dawes Plan, German politics, and his hope that the American Rehders will visit Sylt.