Mrs. Jickeli, Lisi Ebner’s former employer, gave Lisi this business card This business card from my grandmother’s employer, Mrs. Jickeli, was among the documents I ignored for a while. I put off finding out what was written on the [...]
New York Central Park. Lisi sent to Josef after disembarking ship in New York on Sept. 26, 1911. She continues her message from the back onto the front, under the photo, as you can see, above. The ship’s [...]
Every ship entering the port of New York was required to provide customs officers with comprehensive details of its cargo, passengers, and crew. The “List or Manifest of Alien Passengers” (left) is a snapshot of a single moment—a century the [...]
The Atlantic crossing from Bremerhaven to New York on her ship, Kaiser Wilhelm II, took Lisi a week. Early on, she learned the genre of the types of seafaring craft in which she traveled, and recorded it thus: The big ship is [...]
Bremen Postcard from 1911 Bremen, Germany, was the gateway for millions of emigrants from Central and Eastern Europe to American. So it was for my grandparents. Josef had already left for America on New Year’s Eve, 1910, and [...]