Lydia Jung Fraktur Bookplate, (painting).

Lydia Jung Fraktur Bookplate, (painting).

Unknown, painter.

Lydia Jung Fraktur Bookplate, (painting).

Fraktur bookplate reads: "Diese Kleine Harfe Gehoret mier Lydia Jung"; "Hor buchlein was Ich dir will Sagen, wan dich Jemand will weg Tragen." The translation reads: This little harp belongs to me Lydia Young. Listen little book what I have to say to you, when anyone tries to take you away, so say to them - let me lie in piece, I belong to the Lydia Young. Written the 9th December, 1836. The colors are light red, brown, black, light green, and yellow. A fancy border is on the two sides.

Primitive -- Fractur

Homage -- Young, Lydia

Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, Mennonite Heritage Center, 565 Yoder Road, P.O. Box 82, Harleysville, Pennsylvania 19438 Accession Number: 88-5-1

Gift of Rufe, Grace Fretz, Telford, Pennsylvania 1988.

This fraktur bookplate was for Lydia Young's 1834 Zions Harfe (hymnbook), the Franconia Conference Hymnbook.

Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, 1988.

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