Finding aid, inventory, and historical information
Scope and Contents
The Ruth (Tietz) DeNault Collection consists of one copied portrait of the John Tietz, Jr. and Emilie (Treichel) Tietz family, circa 1927, and one shawl, circa 1870-1890.
The copied photograph [2007.09.01] is of John Tietz, Jr. and Emilie (Treichel) Tietz with their twelve children in 1927. The family lived on a farm north of New Leipzig, in Grant County, North Dakota. The people in the photograph have been identified. Back row (left to right): Bertha, Albert, Edward, Robert, Reinhold, Helen, and Mary. Front row (left to right): Theodore, Edna, John Jr., Arthur, Emilie, Elsie, and Oscar.
The shawl [2007.09.02] is a light-weight, hand-spun “Karierte Plachte”/ shoulder shawl of Prussian blue and white checkered-plaid pattern. This surviving Plachte/ shawl originated through Emilie’s Treichel household in Leipzig, Bessarabia, circa 1870-1890. The side of the shawl is 43 inches wide and 74 inches long.
Dates
- 1870 - 1890
- 1927
Access
Extent
From the Collection: 1 Folders
From the Collection: 1 Items (1 shawl)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection Repository
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