Owner : Benjamin Eby

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Item Name	Bible	Image1
Other Owner(s)	Nil
Category	Documents
Year	Early: 1895 - Late: 1895
Description	Bible of Benjamin Eby with a fraktur by Abraham Latschaw. The fraktur was created in 1823. It is part of a two-page illumination. On the left is the bookplate pictured here. On the right is a genealogy of the Eby family.
Maker\Attribution	Abraham Latschaw
Provenance	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.
Collection	Waterloo Historical Society Contact : c/o Kitchener Public Library 85 Queen St. N. Kitchener www.whs.ca
References	Bird, Michael S. Canadian Folk Art (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1983), p. 18. Bird, Michael S. Ontario Fraktur (Toronto: M.F. Feheley Publishers, 1977), p. 106.

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