Gratz Family Papers, 1750-1850

<P>The Gratz brothers, Barnard and Michael, were merchants based out of Philadelphia during the eighteenth century. Their heavy involvement in the fur trade took them and others into the American West.</P>

<P>Bound, multi-volume series, with table of contents in each volume, of Gratz brothers papers. Collected by William Vincent Byars from different libraries across the United States to give an appreciation of life in early America and to document the first waves of westward expansion. Series assembled in 1915. Volumes include some originals, essays, newsclippings, photographs, and photocopies of maps pasted or bound into the volumes. The first volume explains the development of the collection, and the last, titled "First American Movement West," is an historical overview by Byars.</P>

<P>27 volumes</P>

<P>Cite as: Gratz Family Papers, Missouri Historical Society Archives, St. Louis.</P>

《格拉斯家族档案》系由巴纳德·格拉斯与迈克尔·格拉斯兄弟于十八世纪在费城从事贸易活动期间所积累的文件汇编。该系列为多卷本，每卷均附有目录，由威廉·文森特·拜尔斯从美国各地的图书馆搜集而成，旨在展现早期美国的生活，并记录西部开拓的初期浪潮。该系列于1915年汇编完成，包括部分原始文件、论文、新闻报道、照片以及粘贴或装订于卷中的地图复印件。首卷阐释了档案的收集过程，而最后一卷，题为《首次美国西进运动》，则是拜尔斯撰写的历史概述。本系列共27卷。引用格式：格拉斯家族档案，密苏里历史学会档案馆，圣路易斯。