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As executive director of the Monroe County Historical Association in Stroudsburg, Candace McGreevy is particularly proud of the museum’s fraktur collection. “We value them so much that normally we ...

This winter the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Drawn with Spirit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur from the Joan and Victor Johnson Collection, an exhibition featuring bold, bright, and ...

Pennsylvania German fraktur has an instantly recognizable style. The fractured calligraphy, surrounded by birds, swirls and flowers, evolved to become a distinctly American folk art. Learn how to make ...

A small watercolor of a colonial lady on horseback and brandishing a tulip set another Americana record on Oct. 20, when a collector paid $110,000 for this Pennsylvania German fraktur. (Fraktur refers ...

Fraktur is an artform that came to America with European immigrants in the 18th and 19th centuries. The name fraktur refers to the "broken" appearance of the Gothic or Old English style of printing ...