Inventory of the Martin Wilhelm Schaeffer Papers, 1899-1945
Collection Number 3905
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Schaeffer, Martin Wilhelm, 1868-1945.
- Title
- Martin Wilhelm Schaeffer Papers, 1899-1945.
- Call Number
- 3905
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 450 items (0.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Martin Wilhelm Schaeffer Papers, #3905, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- German Americans--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Lee, Thomas Bailey, 1873-1948.
- Schaeffer, Frances Spencer Carter, 1875-1938.
- Schaeffer, Martin Wilhelm, 1868-1945.
- Schaeffer, Theodore Wilhelm, 1907-
- Schnorrenberg, Laura Schaeffer, 1900-1975.
- Soldiers--Germany--Correspondence--History--World War, 1914-1918.
- Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
- United States. Army--Military life.
Related Material
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David Miller Carter Papers (#143); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Biographical Note
Martin Wilhelm Schaeffer of Dresden, Germany, married Frances Spencer Carter (1875-1938) of Raleigh, N.C., in 1899, served in the German army during World War I, visited the United States periodically, 1935-1939, lived in Asheville, N.C., with his wife, and was interned in the United States for a time during World War II.
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Family correspondence and other papers of Schaeffer and members of his family. Letters, largely 1936-1945 and written in German, chiefly concerning children, health and other family matters, but also briefly mentioning political affairs in Germany, comprise almost half of this collection. There are three letters from Schaeffer to his daughter, Laura Schaeffer Schnorrenberg (1901-1975), written during his service in the German military, 1915. His correspondence with his son Theodore, a soldier in the United States Army in World War II, is also included. The balance of the collection consists chiefly of personal financial records and transactions with German banks; a scrapbook belonging to Frances Carter Schaeffer, containing photographs and postcards; and letters to Francis Carter Schaeffer and other items, 1932-1935, of Thomas Bailey Lee (1873-1948), state judge of Idaho.