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This trunk, once belonging to Friederike Henningsen, was brought from his former homeland to DAvenport, Scott County, Iowa. Luggage of this sort would have came from an affluent individual as it is made of highly skilled craftsmanship.

A wooden and metal trunk that once belonged to a Germanic immigrant into the Davenport, Iowa area. This type of trunk would have housed most of the belongings that these immigrants would have been able to take with them to their new homes in America.