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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Van Vleck and Kramsch Family Books, #2674-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from the Jones and Patterson Family Papers, #578. Additional material transferred from Library storage, 1952, and from the Jones and Patterson Family Papers, #578, 1965.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Education--Rhode Island--History--19th century.
• German Americans--History.
• Kramsch family.
• Langgaard family.
• Newport (R.I.)--Economic conditions.
• Teachers--Rhode Island--Economic conditions--19th century.
• Van Vleck family.
• Van Vleck, Charles Anthony, fl. 1811-1845.

The Van Vlecks and Kramschs were related German-American families.

The collection includes records of the Van Vleck and Kramsch families. One volume contains accounts, 1832-1834, of Charles Anthony Van Vleck (fl. 1811-1845), later Moravian minister in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, kept when he taught French, painting, and music in Newport, R.I., and other memoranda. The other volumes contain German script memoirs, unattributed, of Van Vleck, Kramsch, and Langgaard ancestors in Germany and colonial America, written circa 1845-1850.