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Henri Koehler was the brother of the late Father Theodore Koehler, director of the Marian Library at the University of Dayton, in Dayton, Ohio, from 1969-1987 (and continued to serve at the Marian Library until his death in 2001). The Koehlers were French, from the Alsace region. During Fr. Koehler's directorship at the Marian Library, he asked his brother, Henri, still residing in France, to write to French churches with Marian titles and request information such as photographs, articles, and brochures for the Marian Library collections.
The Henri Koehler correspondence contains letters, photographs, articles, and brochures that Mr. Koehler received in response to his written requests for information to churches in France with Marian titles. The correspondence was initiated through the suggestion of Fr. Theodore Koehler, Henri's brother, and director of the Marian Library at the University of Dayton from 1969-1987.
Included in the collection are handwritten or typed responses from each church, and the photographs, postcards, brochures, or articles that they sent to Koehler. Many of the photographs are interior and exterior views of the church or cathedral.
The collection is arranged by church, in the order it was kept by Mr. Koehler.
This collection was processed by Jillian Slater in 2011.
This collection is open and available to the public for research in the Marian Library reading room. The materials are non-circulating.
The materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code). The materials are available for personal, educational, and scholarly use. It is the responsibility of the researcher to locate and obtain permission form the copyright owner or his or her heirs for any other use, such as reproduction and publication.
Henri Koehler correspondence, 1982. Marian Library, University of Dayton Libraries, Dayton, Ohio.
The materials were acquired by former director of the Marian Library, Fr. Theodore Koehler, S.M., from his brother, Henri Koehler.