Collection M0144 VC0107 ART 0018

Ziegler Family Collection 1753-1918

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User Information Historical Sketch Scope and Content Note Container List

Processed by Rachel Van Roekel May 2019 and Laura Christiansen May 2020

Thomas Balch Library 208 W. Market Street Leesburg, VA 20176 USER INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 4.5 cubic ft. / 16 items

COLLECTION DATES: 1753-1918

PROVENANCE: Faye Shanklin, California, MD

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: Collection open for research

USE RESTRICTIONS: Physical characteristics affect use of this material. Visual materials and artifacts may require special handling.

REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from Thomas Balch Library.

CITE AS: Zeigler Family Collection, 1753-1918 (M 0144), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA.

ALTERNATE FORMATS: None

OTHER FINDING AIDS: Past Perfect catalogue records

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS: None

ACCESSION NUMBERS: 2019.0048

NOTES: Matches, match safe, and bullet have been removed to Combustible Materials Storage.

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HISTORICAL SKETCH

Georg Friedrich Ziegler (1785-1845) lived in Michelstadt a town in the Odenwaldkreis district in southern Hesse, Germany. He owned a hat factory in the nearby city of Darmstadt. He and his wife, Marie Christine Freund Ziegler (fl.1800-1821) had three children Mathilde Zeigler Bardon (1818-1890), Henrich Ziegler (1821-1860), and Luisa Zeigler Niebuhr (1811- d. after 1851). Mathilde Zeigler married Peter Paul Bardon (d. after 1860) a native of Lorraine, France. Bardon and Henrich Ziegler went into business together, forming the Bardon- Zeigler chemical company. They operated a Zündholzfabrik – a match factory in Saargemünd, a town located in German-speaking Lorraine. Following the deaths of both Henrich and his wife Karoline Mugel Ziegler (1835-1856), Mathilde and Peter Paul Bardon raised their nephew Henirch Gustav Paul Ziegler (1856-1915). He married Helene Wilhelmina Grunewald Ziegler (1859-1948), and had two sons. Paul Henrich Christian Ziegler (1892-1914) who died fighting for Germany in World War I, and Hugo Joseph Emil Ziegler (1894-1958). Hugo’s daughter Ingeborg Elisabeth Helene Karoline Zeigler (b. 1925) immigrated to the United States following the end of World War II.

SOURCES:

Cropp, Friedrich August, Anton Heinrich Kellinghusen, Karl Rudolf Wilhelm Klose, and Hans Schröder. 1870. Maack - Pauli. Hamburg: Perthes- Besser u. Mauke. Accessed on 6 May 2020. https://books.google.com/books?id=yYxpAAAAcAAJ&lpg=PA538&ots=9h 1WLDMTum&dq=Luise%20Wilhelmine%20Ziegler%20Niebuhr&pg=PA53 8#v=onepage&q=Luise%20Wilhelmine%20Ziegler%20Niebuhr&f=false

Pfeiffer, Otto. Allgemeines Handbuch fur Industrie, Handel und Gewerbe. 1878 Accessed on 6 May 2020. https://books.google.com/books?id=rUzKiYQC3MEC&lpg=RA7- PP8&ots=qdTMKuhyih&dq=Bardon-Ziegler&pg=RA7- PP8#v=onepage&q=Bardon-Ziegler&f=false

Zeigler Family Collection, 1753-1918 (M 0144), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA

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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Ziegler Family Collection contains portraits, genealogical information, documents and artifacts related to Georg Friedrich Zeigler, his descendants and related families. There are four portraits in the collection, all done in oil: Georg Friedrich Ziegler (1785-1845), Mathilde Zeigler Bardon (1818 – 1890), Peter Paul Bardon (d. after 1860), and Paul Heinrich Christian Zeigler (1892-1914). While the portrait of Bardon is framed, the other three portraits have been removed from their frames. Two aquatint etchings of landscapes that belong to the family are also included in the collection. Genealogical materials in the collection relate to the descendants of Georg Fredrich Zeigler and other ancestors of his great- great granddaughter Elizabeth Helene Karoline Ziegler. A 1753 edition of the Bible, Biblia, Das ist: Die gantze Heil. Schrifft Alten und Neuen Testaments included in the collection contains genealogical entries. Bound in leather, the Biblia features metal book clasps and gilt gauffered edges. Artifacts in the collection relate to the Bardon-Ziegler chemical company and include a small wooden cylindrical match safe filled with wooden matches and an unidentified bullet and casing.

CONTAINER LIST

M 0144

Box 1

Folder 1 Descendant Chart for Georg Friedrich Ziegler Folder 2 Ancestors of Ingeborg Elisabeth Helene Karoline Ziegler (generation no. 5) Folder 3 Death Certificate for Georg Friedrich Ziegler 20 April 1845, with transcript Folder 4 History and Correspondence Related to Mathilde Ziegler Bardon Folder 5 Blank Bardon-Ziegler Invoice forms, after 1861 Folder 6 Luther, Martin, Johann Frick, Daniel Bartholomäi, and Christian Ulrich Wagner. 1753. Biblia, Das ist: Die gantze Heil. Schrifft Alten und Neuen Testaments. Folder 7 Rensberger, Boyce. “Quest for Control of Fire: the Physics and Chemistry of Matches”, n.d., Washington Post. Folder 8 Matches and Match safe [see ART 0018] Folder 9 Bullet and casing [see ART 0018]

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VC0107

Box 1

Item 1 Small framed portrait of Peter Paul Bardon [seated mustached man with landscape in background] in gilt frame, c. 1852 Item 2 Aquatint etching of Venice, n.d. Item 3 Etching of Rothenburg Gate, n.d.

Box 2

Item 1 Round portrait of Mathilde Zeigler [woman in red bonnet] on canvas attached to board Item 2 Portrait of Georg Friedrich Ziegler [man with mustache] attached to canvas board Item 3 Portrait of Paul Heinrich Christian Zeigler [blond haired man] attached to canvas board, 1918

ART 0018

Item 1 Wooden matches in match safe Item 2 Bullet and casing

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