Mary Lou Panus Polish American Collection, 1895-1997
3 boxes (1.25 linear feet).
Mary Lou Panus documented Polish American life in Massachusetts by collecting newspaper clippings, business cards, programs, and Polish language prayer books and prayer cards.
The Panus collection includes photographs of Polish churches in Massachusetts, reflecting the important role religion played in the culture and in various communities. The collection also includes a doll dressed as a nun.
Subjects- Polish Americans--Massachusetts
Contributors
Call no.: MS 378
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Walter Pelczynski Papers, 1983
1 envelope (0.25 linear feet).
Walter Pelczynski was a native of Adams, Massachusetts and the second native-born American to be ordained by the Congregation of Marians, which has its roots in Poland. He served as head of the Marians at Eden Hill in Stockbridge, Massachusetts for many years.
Included in this small collection is a photocopy of Pelczynski’s typewritten memoirs, written in 1983, that cover the years 1934 to 1983.
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Subjects- Catholic Church--Massachusetts--Stockbridge--History
- Marian Fathers. St. Stanislaus Kostka Province
- Polish Americans--Massachusetts--Stockbridge
- Stockbridge (Mass.)--Biography
- Superiors, Religious--Massachusetts--Stockbridge--Biography
Contributors- Pelczynski, Walter, 1916-2000
Types of material
Call no.: MS 148 bd
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Jakob Plata Memoir, 1936
1 envelope (0.25 linear feet).
Photocopy of Jakob Plata’s autobiographical account of his emigration from Poland originally written in 1936 for the Institute for Social Management in Warsaw, which published several such accounts.
Subjects- Immigrants--Massachusetts
- Polish Americans--Massachusetts
ContributorsTypes of material
Call no.: MS 184 bd
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Polish American Collection, 1940s-2000
5 boxes (5.25 linear feet).
Collection documenting Polish American culture, language, and history consisting of newspapers and news clippings, programs for Polish religious and cultural events, newsletters of Polish American organizations, and Polish publications including religious works and language textbooks.
Call no.: MS 464
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Polish Architecture and Folk Art Photograph Collection, 1980s
1 box, 234 items (0.5 linear feet).
234 photographs taken by Marian Pokropek and others of a variety of subjects in Poland, including homes, farms, buildings, churches, businesses, wood carvings, ceramics, corn dollies, friezes, metalwork, sculptors, paintings, textiles, ceremonies, and a Jewish graveyard. Many of these images were published in Pokropek’s books.
SubjectsContributorsTypes of material
Call no.: MS 279
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Polish Genealogical Society of Massachusetts Newsletter, 1990-2000
1 box
The Biuletyn Korzenie (Roots Bulletin) is the semiannual newsletter of the Polish Genealogical Society of Massachusetts.
Subjects- Poland--Genealogy
- Polish Americans--Massachusetts
Contributors- Polish Genealogical Society
Call no.: MS 366
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Polish Jubilee Catalogs and Souvenirs, 1906-1988
5 boxes (2.5 linear feet).
Includes booklets containing parish and community histories, photographs, and local advertisements celebrating Jubilee, other anniversaries, and events in over twenty Massachusetts Polish American parishes; booklets furnishing histories and names associated with Polish American groups (such as the Brotherly Aid Society and Polish American Veterans); an historical paper on the Chicopee Polish Community; a pamphlet including songs and recipes; photographs; a booklet; and two books.
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Subjects- Chicopee (Mass.)--History
- Polish Americans--Massachusetts
Call no.: MS 057
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Polish Soldiers Relief Correspondence, 1941-1942
4 items (0.1 linear feet).
Four postcards sent to Polish Soldiers Relief of Chicopee in 1941 concerning Polish prisoners of war in German camps.
Subjects- Polish Americans--Massachusetts
- Prisoners of War
- World War, 1939-1945
Call no.: MS 219 bd
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Polish Women's Club of Three Rivers Records, 1924-1994
3 boxes (1.5 linear feet).
Polish-American women’s club located near Palmer, Massachusetts, that aims to encourage Polish women to become United States citizens and provide them with classes in the English language; to take an active part in local, state and federal politics; to support local Polish-owned businesses; to preserve and integrate Polish culture with those of other ethnicities present in the United States; to encourage higher education in the Polish-American community.
Includes meeting minutes (primarily in Polish), histories, anniversary programs, town and state citations, and government publications, documenting the activities, membership, and national recognition of the club over a period of seventy years.
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Subjects- Americanization--History--20th century
- Palmer (Mass.)--Ethnic relations--20th century
- Palmer (Mass.)--Social conditions--20th century
- Poles--Cultural assimilation--Massachusetts--History--20th century
- Polish American friendly societies--Massachusetts--Palmer--History
- Polish Americans--Ethnic identity--History--20th century
- Polish Americans--Massachusetts--Palmer
- Polish Americans--Political activity--History--20th century
Contributors- Massachusetts Federation of Polish Women's Clubs
- Polish American Women Citizens Political Club of Three Rivers and Thorndike (Palmer, Mass.)
- Polish Women's Club of Three Rivers (Palmer, Mass.)
Types of material
Call no.: MS 391
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Hans Joachim Ring Collection of East German Cinema, 1945-1990
10 boxes (4.75 linear feet).
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Born in Germany on Aug. 4, 1934, Hans Joachim Ring was a film enthusiast with an encyclopedic knowledge of German cinema. During the Second World War, movie theatres became a refuge for the young boy, whose family was forced several times to flee due to Allied bombing. The hardships of post-war life cemented the role of film in his life and as he grew older, he became an ardent collector of materials relating to film.
The Ring Collection includes hundreds of programs, fliers, and handbills published by the official East German film distributors Progress Film-Vertrieb and the Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA) and sold to patrons at theatres. This extraordinary assemblage includes several hundred programs covering the immediate post-war period (1945-1950) and hundreds more relating to films released up to and beyond the end of the Communist era. Offering insight into the evolution of graphic design in East Germany and the marketing of film, the collection is one of the largest of its kind in the United States.
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Subjects- Children's films--Germany, East
- Motion pictures--Germany, East
Contributors- Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft
- Progress Film-Vertrieb
- Ring, Hans Joachim
Types of material- Fliers (Printed matter)
- Handbills
- Programs
Call no.: MS 566
View related collections: Cold War culture, Communism & Socialism, Film & video, Germany, Media, Performing arts, Printed materials : : No Comments
