Guide to the Bostlemann Family Papers,
1848-1938
Processed by Edward F. Meylan; machine-readable finding aid created by C. Del Anderson
Department of Special Collections
Green Library
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
Phone: (650) 725-1022
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
© 1998
The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Guide to the Bostlemann Family Papers,
1848-1938
Collection number: M0075
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Department of Special Collections
- Green Library
- Stanford University Libraries
- Stanford, CA 94305-6004
- Phone: (650) 725-1022
- Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
- URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
- Processed by:
- Edward F. Meylan
- Date Completed:
- ca. 1963
- Encoded by:
- C. Del Anderson
© 1998 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Bostlemann Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1848-1938
Collection number: Special Collections M0075
Creator:
Extent:
.5 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Gift of Hayward State College, 1963.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Bostlemann Family Papers, M0075, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biography
Bostelmann, Karl Louis Georg, painter, born: January 22, 1825 in Hannover. Copied from 1840 at the Gallery of Dresden. In
1843, he went to Venice, Florence, and Rome, where he stayed from 1844 to 1846. From 1847 to 1866, he was in the employment
of the Court of Hannover as a miniature portrait painter. He painted numerous miniature portraits of the royal family and
the family of the Crownprince of Oldenburg. He also painted large oil portraits. After 1866, he was working in and about Hamburg,
then again in Hanover. Since 1858 he owned a mansion in Wachholz bei Beverstedt, where he later retired as a private citizen.
Scope and Content
Letters of Karl Bostlemann (b. 1825), German miniature portrait painter, his wife, children, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren
written from Germany and the U.S., mostly in German. Includes a history of the King's German Legion by N. Ludlow Beamish printed
in 1832. The book has hand executed illustrations and mentions Bostlemann's father. Also includes manuscript notes in English
by Carl, Jr., written in 1935.
Access terms
Beamish, North Ludlow, 1797-1872
Bostlemann, Karl Louis Georg, 1825
Bostlemann, Carl
Bostlemann family
King's German Legion
Germany--Emigration and immigration
United States--Emigration and immigration
Groups of the Bostelmann Correspondence
To Carl Bostelmann by different people in Beverstedt -Wachholz,
1848 - 1900
To Carl Bostelmann in Hannover by his wife, Johanna from Beremrhaven,
1854
To August Bostelmann in Hoboken, N.J. from family in Wachholz,
1868 - 1875
To Carl Bostelmann (Jr.) in Hoboken, N.J. from family in Wachholz,
1875
To Carl and August in Hoboken, N.J. from family in Wachholz,
1875
Carl from Newark, N.J. to August in Hoboken, N.J.,
1874
To parents in Wachholz from Carl and August in Hoboken, N.J.,
1875
Johanna Bostelmann's bound letters, reminiscences, miscellaneous writings,
1881
Carls's letters from Chicago and Lenison, Iowa to family in Wachholz ,
1878, 1881
August's and family's letters from Lutherville to parents,
1888
Mathilda (Mrs. Carl) Bostlemann to her mother,
1889, 1890
Carl the elder to Carl Jr. to Ponca, Nebraska,
1906, 1908
Amelie and Carla Bostelmann to grandparents in Wachholz,
1901
To Amelie in Ponca, Nebraska from Breverstedt,
1907
To Carla in Ponca, Nebraska,
1909
To Carl in Ponca, Nebraska from brother Ernst in Holt, N.Y. and from Los Angeles,
1909
To Carl in Ponca, Nebraska from brother Ernst in Los Angeles,
1909
To Carl at 1255 West 88th Street, Los Angeles,
1918
To Carl at 1558 So. Arlington, Los Angeles,
1923
To Carl at 11216 or 18 Burbank, North Hollywood,
1928, 1931
Mathilda's letter from Hollywood to daughter Amelie (Mrs. Lightner) in San Francisco,
1938
