Equestrian portrait of Elisabeth, age 15, at her father's castle in Bavaria....Verlobungsgeschenk, her wedding engagement gift to Franz Joseph I of Austria...1853 painting by Karl Theodor von Piloty Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria (1865), portrait by Franz Winterhalter Elisabeth Princess of Bavaria was popularly known as Sissi, which was also the title of a 1957… Continue reading Elisabeth Princess of Bavaria, known as Sissi, became the popular Empress of Austria in 1854
19th century HAPAG advertisement... Allegorical Germania waves goodbye as the American Columbia awaits the newcomers... poster boasting 6 days from Hamburg to New York via Twin Screw Fast Steamships The first thing to know is that German Americans comprise about 43 million people as of 2019, making them the largest self-reported ancestry group in the… Continue reading Some interesting facts pertaining to German-Americans…updated with 2019 statistics
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