# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_25. Oktober 1927 ff._S386
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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386 VDen „Tutheranerss

A Visit to the Museum of the Concordia
Historical Institute.
By THEO. GRAERNEBR.
The Museum of the Concordia Historical Institute is
located on the third floor of the Administration Building and

occupies aà large room fronting to the south. The view from
the window facing west overlocks the well-shaded academic

A Book of Exercises from the Log-Cabin College,
Perry County, Mo.
Written by the first graduate (1847) of the college.

court; to the east, the woodeéd slope of the campus; while
the south windows overlook the automobile concourse with
Founders' Hall to the left, one of the dining-halls straight
ahead, and the massive Walther Entrance to the right. The
room contains two small alcoves and four roomy closets.

The exhibits at present consist of the former contents of
the Walther-Cimmer in the old Seminary, with a few additions.
There is Dr. Walther's desk from his study; his large revolv-
ing arm-chair and several smaller ones; his piano and piano
stool; umbrella stand; lamp, ink-well, pen-rack, and sixteen
pipe stems from twenty-four to thirty inches in length. We
remember these pipe-stems from our student days. Even then
the meerschaum and porcelain bowls had disappeared, but most
of them still had their mouthpieces. Now all these are gone.“
There is Dr. Walther's door-plate and framed dedications in
Latin, engrossed on parchment and presented to Dr. Walther on
various occasions. In addition, there are a great number of
portraits, some of them done in oil, others lithographs, and
a great many photographs of former members of the faculty,
also àa number of groups of conferences, dating back to the 80˙s
and 70s.

There is a very large number of manuscripts gathered in
portfolios or wrapped in bundles, which fill to overflowing
a cabinet a yard wide and six feet high. Others have received
a temporary resting-place in the glass cabinets which line the
east wall of the room. Wherever one looks, there are small
parcels containing some kind of historical keepsake. I have
just picked up a small photograph album dedicated to Dr. Wal-
ther and containing what appears to be the pictures of the
class of 1865. I unwrap another bundle and find a manuseript
of lectures on the Sermon on the Mount, lectures on Symbolies,
sermon exercises, dating from the year 1845. On top of these
a book of German Aufsaetee, written by one of the pupils in

*P. S. Just discovered them, wrapped separately in a piece of
newspaper.

the old log cabin college in Perry Oounty. The desk at which
these notes are being written contains bundles of old prints
related to the history of the Buffalo Synod and our relations
to that body; more manuscripts, bundles of them, in Latin and
German; extremely rare printed books dealing with the Danish
missions in the East Indies; a catechism printed at German-
town, N. V., 1804; the history of the Saxon Emigration, printed
in Dresden, 1839, by one who accompanied Stephan; a photo-
graphic reproduction, page by page, of the excessively rare
Passionsprecigten of Hesshusius; a fragment of Muehlenberg's
tombstone in Trappe; a vooden wafer-box, filled with coins,
unsorted; a translation, in manuscript, of Baier's Dogmatics,
prepared by Professor Pardieck when a pastor 1895—1896;
the fountain pen with which Dr. Pfotenhauer, May 28, 1924,
signed the contract for the new Concordia Seminary; a piece
of wood from the oak-tree at Koshkonong, Wis., under which
the first Norwegian Lutheran service in America was con-
ducted in 1844. More photographs and daguerrotypes, among
them an exceedingly rare photograph of Dr. Walther (1850)
and one of Professor Biewend.

Understand that we have mentioned only a very small
number of articles now preserved in our museum. Note, in
the second place, that all this material is deposited in our
cabinets just as it has been sent by the ovners to the Con-
cordia Seminary library and to the former historical society.
The smallest part of it only is marked as to contents and
origin. Thousands upon thousands of pages of manuscript
await the hand of expert readers and catalogers. Hundreds
of photographs are to be cataloged, framed, cleaned, ete. There
are many volumes of books, some of them great rarities, some

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PAPAAGITGRATIAS CAESARIBVS PRO
IMMENSIS BENETFICIIS.
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Cunradimia, Cunrad II I. Impe.
rators felfun, dciα Neapalt
Rens lemente Ii II. Lapa
cahite muncatun.
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Accipe nanc Papæ insidia; vim
abine Hisce vmnei.

Aros gut die RNeiser han gethan

Dem Vapst / vnd vbel gelegt an.

Dafuͤr jmder Bapst gedanckt hat /

Wie dis Bild dir die Warheit sagt.
—— Vart. Huther d

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One of Tuther's Cartoons on the Papacy.
The Pope is shown in the act of beheading an emperor
(Conradin of Germany, the last of the Hohenstaufens).