Hitz Family Papers
1832-1993
UWM Manuscript Collection 56
- 10 cubic ft. (21 boxes)
- 1 oversize folder
- 34 nitrate negatives
- 33 safety film negatives
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr.
(Map)
Papers of the Hitz family, compiled by John B. Hitz, with some
information on other extended family, especially Frederick C. Winkler and the Winkler
family, mostly from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Includes family correspondence, mainly discussing
their personal affairs, photographs, scrapbooks and artifacts that focus on the lives of
these family members and other relatives, and genealogical histories for the Hitz and
Winkler families. Some of the photographs are early photographic processes, such as
daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and albumen prints. Of special interest is the
typescript account of Carl Winkler's 1843 emigration from Bremen to New York; the letters
and military records of Rudolph Hitz, who served as a surgeon in the U.S. Army in the
Montana Territory from 1867-1869; and Henry Hitz's letters from the Army (where he was a
surgeon) during World War I. The collection also contains news clippings, notes, and letters
of Harold Hitz Burton, J. Edgar Hoover, and Norman Mailer, usually about personal affairs,
sent to members of the Hitz family.
English
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