Identity elements
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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Title
Date(s)
- 1949, 1975, 1997 (Accumulation)
Extent
0.21 (1 document case, narrow)
Name of creator
Biographical history
The manuscript In the Blizzard recounts events from a blizzard in South Dakota in March 1882 and was written by Louis Grewing (1843–1908). His son, Frederick Grewing (1867–1937), copied the document, though the original's whereabouts are unknown. Notes suggest Frederick intended to publish the story, with the earliest known publication appearing in 1949, twelve years after his death. Carlene Aro, a descendant of Louis Grewing, later provided a copy of the manuscript to Carl R. Sunde, a Professor of German at South Dakota State University, for translation from handwritten old German script into English. A small grant from SDSU’s research support fund aided the translation and related research.
Name of creator
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The materials include an undated manuscript titled Im Schneesturm (In the Blizzard), along with newspaper accounts, photographs, and other background information. Various translations of the manuscript were published in 1949, 1975, and 1997. Among these are versions printed by the Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt, a German-language Lutheran church bulletin from Madison, Wisconsin, and by the Watertown Public Opinion, which includes a translation by Reverend Elwood Habermann. However, Habermann's translation omits Frederick's role as editor and copier of the original document, along with several other significant details that were unknown to him.
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Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
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Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
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Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
Language and script notes
Finding aids
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Acquisition and appraisal elements
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Related materials elements
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Existence and location of copies
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Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Grewing, Frederick 1867-1937 (Subject)
- Grewing, Louis 1843-1908 (Subject)