One reason that fraktur - the highly illuminated documents and texts made by Pennsylvania Germans in the 18th and 19th centuries - remain so colorful today is that they were hardly ever looked at. As soon as these baptismal certificates, religious texts, school awards, and other items were made, they were immediately tucked into family Bibles and dark drawers, treasured but rarely exposed.

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