Lanugage

This map explores the language in which the Fraktur were written. Clicking on each dot revels a transcription of the text on the document and a translation into English if necessary.

My observation:

For supposedly German documents, it is surprising to see how many were written in English only or both English and German. It makes sense that many of the Fraktur produced outside the state of Pennsylvania (such as in North Carolina, New Jersey, or Maine) were written in English. Most of the Fraktur in German are scattered throughout the countryside between the cities of Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading, Allentown and Norristown. As seen on the County map, the location of many of the German language Fraktur correspond to the Counties that had the most Fraktur samples in total, suggesting that German language Fraktur are most representative of Fraktur in general.  It is also interesting to note the occurrence of a German, English and Hebrew language Fraktur located in Southern Germany.