File consists of one hand-written land transaction document regarding the sale of land by Jacob and Margaretha Hailer to Louis Breithaupt and Jacob Wagner, witnessed by Jacob and Mary Burgley[sic], and signed by all parties. This document is not written on an official form.

Three character references for Charles Andrew Ahrens: one signed by W.D. Hepburn, Oct. 15, 1878; one signed by an unidentified hand at Beardmore & Co., May 21, 1880; and one signed by L. Breithaupt, May 31, 1880.

File consists of three copies of the Saturday, July 3, 1880 edition of the Daily News containing an account of the death of Louis Breithaupt.

File consists of a copybook containing copies of five letters written by L. Breithaupt in 1854 concerning tannery business.

File consists of business and personal papers of Louis Breithaupt. Includes statements of accounts, business correspondence, telegrams, railroad advice notes and freight receipts, notes receivable, tax notices, etc. Also in the file are documents relating to work done on the church and minister's house corner of William and Emslie Sts., letter from J. Long, Cleveland regarding 18 boxes of Universal Salve, written on the verso of printed instructions for the salve, correspondence between J.F. Schoellkopf and L. Breithaupt, letters in German from Rev. Jacob Wagner, August Klein, Jacob Hailer, Reinhold Lang, F.A Goetze (including cigar bill), statement from Hoffman and Weaver for land in Berlin. Also included is one letter in German from Louis Breithaupt, Berlin, November 6, 1857 to Catharine Breithaupt in Buffalo [last item].

Studio portrait of Philip Ludwig Breithaupt, seen looking off-camera.