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9257897
Area
Pins and buttons
Title
Teutonia Männerchor
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Dimensions
13 X19mm
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THE BEGINNING 1800 - Around the early and mid 1800s to the end of the century there was massive immigration from all over Europe to the United States. Many of the immigrants from Germany and other German-speaking countries came to Pennsylvania to what was then "Allegheny City" BY 1854, the immigrants who gathered to sing the songs of the "Heimat" and share the old experiences at the "Liedertafel", decided to form a choir called the "Teutonia Männerchor". This was only nineteen years after the foundation of the first German choral society in America - in Philadelphia.

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