C. Fichtel Papers

This collection contains the papers of C. Fichtel, a non-commissioned officer serving in a German field artillery regiment during the late nineteenth century. The collection contains a copy of Oberlieutenant Strack's Notiz-buch zum Gebrauch im Felde für der Unteroffizier der Königl. Württembergishen Feldartillerie, a notebook for the use of non-commissioned officers in a field artillery regiment. Published in Ludwigsburg in 1868, the book is comprised of facsimile copies of handwritten notes, tables, diagrams and illustrations relating to the operation of a field artillery battery. Also from Strack is a calling card, inscribed to Fichtel. The collection also includes a few miscellaneous pages bearing German handwriting, as well as a small page of genealogical data on the Fichtel family, an entry copied in English from Burke's General Armory for the Norman family coat-of-arms, a carte-de-visite of an unidentified infant (portrait created by J. A. Keenan, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania photographer), and a photograph of an ornate wooden chair.