Item 122: Bookplate, Karl Weinhold Library, [1851]
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 122
Dates
- Created: [1851]
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Bookplate
Condition Note:
Good, no issues.
Measurements:
3 5/16 in. x 4 ⅛ in.
Title:
A gift from the Karl Weinhold Library to the University of California by John D. Spreckels A.D. MDCCCCMI. There are vines surrounding the text with a pinecone and a flower at the top of the vines. There is a man in the middle of the plate. Bookplate collector, folklorist, and linguist, Karl Weinhold was born on October 26, 1823 in Reichenbach, Prussia. “He was a folklorist and and linguist who worked best with German studies.” He was in college for five years, where he went to the Universities of Breslau and Berlin, and then to Halle in 1847, where he earned his degree. Three years later, he became a “professor of German language and literature at the University of Krakow.” A few years later, he was a teacher at the University of Graz for ten years, Kiel for fourteen years, Breslau for thirteen years, and Berlin starting in 1889. Three different times, he was the “university rector” for two years at Kiel, and one year at Breslau and Berlin. In 1891, he started the Journal of Association of Folklore. Some of his works include Die deutschen Frauen in dem Mittelalter. Ein Beitrag zu den Hausalterthümern der Germanen (1850), Mittelhochdeutsches Lesebuch, mit einem metrischen Anhang und einem Glossar (1850), Weihnacht-spiele und lieder aus Süddeutschland und Schlesien (1853). He died on August 15, 1901 in Berlin, Germany.
Entrepreneur and bookplate collector, John Diedrich Spreckles was born on August 16, 1853 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was the eldest of five kids, and relocated to New York City when he was young. His parents were Claus Spreckles and Anna Christina Mangels. He went to Oakland College, and after that, went to Polytechnic College in Hanover, Germany, “where he studied mechanical engineering until 1872.” He went back to California to work with his dad, who had earned a lot of money from working with sugar. “In 1876, he went to the Hawaiian Islands where he worked for his father’s sugar business, Spreckle’s Sugar Company.” He began the organization J.D. Spreckles and Brothers with two million dollars in 1880, so trade deals could happen with the mainland United States and Hawaiian Islands. They started out with only one sailing vessel called The Rosario, “and later controlled two large fleets of sail and steam ships.” J.D. Spreckles started the Oceanic Steamship Company for transportation in 1881. At first the company only worked in California and Hawaii, then expanded into traveling to Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, and Tahiti. They provided transportation to passengers, sugar, food, and mail. At one point being the singular mail transportation line from the U.S. to New Zealand and Australia. They were also big into sugar refining and played a big role in having sugar Plantations in Hawaii. “Much of the commercial development of commercial interests between the United States and Hawaii is due to this firm.” He died on June 7, 1926 in San Diego, California.
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