Sources

Primary

• The Kiefer Saga, Edgar W. Kiefer (Ann Arbor: Edwards Brothers, 1951) — Internet Archive, from the Allen County Public Library
• Michigan death certificates: Frances Kiefer (1909), Herman Kiefer (1911), Herman Guy Kiefer (1936)
• Sulzburg parish baptism register, 1825 (via Badische Biographien)
• Family photographs, engagement announcement (1942) and obituary (2007) — Blackburn family collection

Reference

• Herman Kiefer — Wikipedia
• Herman Kiefer Hospital — Wikipedia
• Kiefer, Hermann — Deutsche Biographie
• Dr Herman Kiefer (1825–1911) — Find a Grave
• Herman Kiefer Hospital — Historic Detroit
• Herman Kiefer Hospital — detroit1701.org
• The Herman Kiefer Hospital of Detroit — Citizens Research Council of Michigan
• Detroit Historical Society collection

News

• Crain's Detroit Business — developer files Chapter 11 (13 Jun 2025); developer sues city (12 Jun 2026)
• Detroit Free Press — redevelopment coverage (2015; 16 Jun 2026)
• Outlier Media — Detroit Development Tracker
• Model D — Herman Kiefer development
• WXYZ-TV Detroit (2014, 2021)
• City of Detroit — Herman Kiefer
• Herman Kiefer Development

Images

• Sulzburg, c. 1919 — Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
• Uprising at Rastatt, 1849 — LEO-BW via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
• Battle outside Rastatt, Ernst von Lepell, 1852 — Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
• Emigrants aboard Artemisia, Illustrated London News, 1848 — State Library of Queensland (public domain)
• University Hall, c. 1890 — Bentley Historical Library (public domain)
• Regent Herman Kiefer — History of the University of Michigan, 1906 (public domain)
• Chest X-ray at Herman Kiefer, 1939 — Arthur Siegel, Library of Congress
• Boy in Emerson respirator, Herman Kiefer, c. 1955 — National Museum of Health and Medicine, CC BY 2.0
• Tuberculin skin test, 1962 — CDC Public Health Image Library (public domain)
• Portraits labeled "Plate from the Saga" — The Kiefer Saga (1951)
• Hospital campus photographs — Blackburn family collection