Miscellaneous family items

Miscellaneous family items

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A German engagement announcement from April 1907 announcing the engagement of Eva Clason and Carel E Haitink. Pertinently, Eva is the daughter of Anna Clason (born Bleek), wife of Oscar Clason, and Wilhelm Bleek's younger sister born to the same parents. Eva's sister is Heta Haid (born Clason).

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1752, 1825, 1830, 1901, 1907-1908, 1913

An assemblage of eighteenth- to twentieth-century items spanning family notices, cuttings, and a partial Bleek family dissertation defence.

WHI Bleek (a slip with his name on it), LH v Post, Auguste Bleek, Anna Clason (born Bleek, is mother to Eva and was married to Oscar Clason), Heta Haid (born Clason, is Eva's sister), Bachem (A Bachem was born a Clason), Walter Friedrich Wilhelm (A Bachem's 'little boy'), Gerta Clason, Georg von Mendelssohn's wife, Georg von Mendelssohn (Gerta Clason's husband), Sethe, Egyptian antiquities cutting (from Illustrated London News in summer 1901), Professor Flinders Petrie (objects from their exhibition illustrated in Illustrated London News), Wilhelmvs Bleek (Wilhelmvs/Wilhelmus Bleek's dissertation defence)

Various marriage and engagement-related notices concerning the Bleek, Sack, Sethe, Clason, (von) Mendelssohn, Haitink, Haid, Necker, Lauenstein, and Krutina families over several generations; a cutting with A. Hugh Fisher's illustration of Egyptian antiquities from Professor Flinders Petrie's exhibition at University College from the Illustrated London News (1901); and a photocopy of 'Wilhelmvs Bleek['s]' dissertation defence (January 1752) -- kept by the Bleek family. Marie Lauenstein and Anna Clason were born Bleeks.