Hard cover, 399 pp.
The First Hundred Years Are the Hardest, Hard cover, 399 pp. This is a story/genealogy of the descendants of George Schmidt who emigrated to America from Montabauer, Germany. The author's grandfather opened a store in Philadelphia in the late 1870s. This story tells the history of that business and the individuals who operated that business over the course of 100 years.
A bookplate found Inside the Front Cover indicates this book was a gift in 1985 from the Author to The Germantown Historical Society.