Did you know that Germans brought cooking and heating stoves to America? Did you know that they settled with their stoves in tow in Pennsylvania and they were the first house warming stoves? Did you know that Pennsylvania Dutch gave its name to the “Dutch Stove”? Did you know that Pennsylvania Dutch were really German, but Dutch sounds like Deutsch? Did you know you can learn a lot from turn-of-the-century printing, type and paper advertising like the one below?
