Owner : Isaac Eby

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Item Name	Bookplate from a Songbook	Image1
Other Owner(s)	Nil
Category	Documents
Year	Early: 1823 - Late: 1823
Description	A bookplate from a song book owned by Isaac Eby. The text is contained in an oval, with a red and black border. The text reads: "Dieses Gesang Buch gehoret mir Isaac Eby / Geschrieben den 6 ten Marz Im Jahr Unserz Herrn und Heylander Jesu Christi Anno 1823." Translated this says "This song book belongs to me, Isaac Eby, written on March 6th, in the year of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ, 1823." Behind the black and red text are small black and red horizontal lines, which gives the impression of solid bands of colour behind the text. On both sides, and at the top of the oval, are red and yellow tulips with green leaves. The bookplate is framed in a red and green border. In the upper right corner there is some black writing in German. It is difficult to make out, as a large portion of it is missing.
Maker\Attribution	Abraham Latschaw
Provenance	This bookplate was handed down from Isaac Eby to "Uncle Menno", to his daughter Hellen and her sister. From there it went to Gordon Eby who acquired it in c. 1960. Gordon Eby did not keep them out with eight children in the house; he stored them in a box in the attic. In c. 1970 he cleaned out the house and sold it, and he decided Foster Eby (donor) should keep them. Isaac Eby was the eldest son of Bishop Benjamin Eby, he was born in Berlin, Ontario. He married Veronica Shoemaker (daughter of John and Mary (Shantz), on October 31, 1831. They farmed for nearly 43 years on land two and a half miles east of Berlin. Isaac and his wife had ten children: Menno, Mary, Isaac, Daniel, Christian, Theodore, Barnabas, Ezra E, Benjamin and Lydia Ann.
Collection	Joseph Schneider Haus Museum Contact : 466 Queen St. S. Kitchener 519-742-7752 www.region.waterloo.on.ca
Accession No.	1999.006.001
Curatorial Comments	Abraham Latschaw (1799-1879) When the young Abraham Latschaw joined the northward-bound waves of Pennsylvania German immigrants to Upper Canada in 1822, he was about to bring Waterloo County a set of extraordinary skills which would culminate in the finest fraktur and furniture to be made in this area.

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