Description
Eight-page article with photos from a booklet titled "Oley Valley, An American Cultural Island" (vol. I , No. 7) published by the American Folklife Society in 1973.
Article was reprinted from October 1955 issue of the "Historical Review of Berks County," by permission of the Historical Society of Berks County, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Article mainly discusses the history of the last generation of Keims to live at the Famstead: John Keim & his five unmarried sisters Sarah, Catharine, Anna, Elizabeth & Susanna.
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Catalog details
- Catalog number
- 1002.01.041
- Alternate number
- KHTXT7
- Accession number
- 1002.01
- Date
- 1973
- Creator
- John E. Eshelman
- Object name
- Periodical Excerpt
- Record type
- Archive
- Classification
- Documentary Artifact