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Traugott Bromme was a traveler and publisher best known for this immigration guides for German migrants. Born in Anger, in Saxony, Traugott was orphaned at a young age. He emigrated to the United States at age eighteen. There he studied medicine, traveled extensively, and supposedly served as a surgeon in the nascent Colombian Navy and was imprisoned in Haiti. He returned to Germany in 1824, where he became a partner in his brother-in-law’s bookshop in Dresden. He began to publish books on the topic of immigration at this time.

In 1833 Bromme returned to the United States, this time to Baltimore where he took up a partnership in a publishing house, Scheld and Company. Here he began to publish his guidebooks targeting German immigration to America, which included maps after those of Henry Schenck Tanner. By 1840, he had again returned to Germany, starting a bookshop in Stuttgart. In 1846 he once again sailed to America, spending three years there. By 1849, he was back in Germany and seemingly returned to publishing. All of his outputs were geographic in nature and include several wall maps.


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Place/Date:
Freiburg / 1838
Size:
25 x 18 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
0945
Place/Date:
Stuttgart / 1855
Size:
11.5 x 15 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
3230
Place/Date:
Stuttgart / 1855
Size:
15.5 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
4214
Place/Date:
Stuttgart / 1855
Size:
11.5 x 15 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
33561
Place/Date:
Stuttgart / 1855
Size:
11.5 x 15 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
102853