The Luxembourgers in America

Relevant American Memory Presentations

• The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress
  Ninety-five percent of extant Washington documents are at the Library of Congress.  George Washington's letter to Continental Congress, April 10, 1777 alludes to Le Chevalier Count of Vrecourt, an engineer and artillery officer from Luxembourg, who was commissioned a colonel of engineers by Congress April 12, 1777.
• Map Collections: 1544-1996
  The focus of this collection is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress.  In the Cities and Towns category, nineteenth century maps of Aurora, Dubuque, Winona City and Winona County, depict locations of Luxembourger settlement.
• Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs 1851-1991
  Images dating from 1851 to 1991 include scenes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Photographs of Dubuque, Iowa show the hometown of the Luxemburger Gazette.
• Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920
  This compilation of pictorial material contains the work of a number of photographers. Scenes and sights that might have been familiar to Luxembourger immigrants include those of Rollingstone Valley near Lewiston, Minnesota, as well as Winona, Minnesota.
• Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933 - Present
  The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies.  Currently these collections serve as valuable finding aids to the Prints and Photographs Division's holdings.  When fully digitized, this collection will have images from areas of Luxembourger settlement such as Bellwood, Nebraska and Ozaukee County, Wisconsin.