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Letter to Ernst Berl from Samuel Harden Church, December 4, 1934

  • 1934-Dec-04

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Letter from Samuel Harden Church (1858-1943) to Ernst Berl (1877-1946), acknowledging that he has received from Berl various items issued by the German government, likely during the hyperinflation period in post-World War One Germany. Church mentions his intention to forward these items to Dr. Andrey Avinoff (1884-1949), the then-director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

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The Ernst Berl Papers were originally donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013, then subsequently transferred and formally donated to the Science History Institute (formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation) by Herbert Berl in September 2013.
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  • 21 cm W x 27.5 cm H
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  • Samuel Harden Church
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Series I. Correspondence, 1926-1970, undated
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  • Box 1, Folder 29

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Church, Samuel Harden. “Letter to Ernst Berl from Samuel Harden Church, December 4, 1934,” December 4, 1934. Ernst Berl Papers, Box 1, Folder 29. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/hdazf3m.

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