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Two copies of the play "Misiska" by Aili R. Bell in Finnish and in English (translated by Richard A. Impola). The play, depicting the immigration and remigration of a Finnish woman, is set in Rock Springs, WyomingY in 1908 and in Savo, Finland in the 1930s.

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Collection consists of personal papers, certificates, documents, personal correspondence, documents of various Estonian diaspora organizations, included are also photographs and manuscripts of Anderson's memoirs and speeches.

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Papers (ca. 1930-1976) of Angela Bambace (1898-1975) include correspondence; speeches; newspaper clippings; photographs; and publications. Bambace was a labor organizer and vice-president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

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Collection consists of handwritten autobiography manuscript, as well as family photographs and documents, and photocopied excerpts from magazine and newspaper articles.

Abstract Papers (1935-2000) of Carl Ross (1913-2004) consist of correspondence, brochures, photographs, newspaper clippings, essays and other published materials relating to the Minnesota Finnish American Family History Project; the founding and activities of the United Fund for Finnish American Archives (meeting minutes, by-laws, press releases, letterhead, and other materials) and the organizing of two Reunion of Sisters conferences (1986 and 1987).The Carl Ross papers consist generally...

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Collection is organized chronologically into 14 folders (albums) consisting of reports, declarations, correspondence, lists, informational sheets, newspaper clippings, photos, programs, brochures, invitations, and magazines.

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Collection consists of materials (drafts of chapters, correspondence) pertaining to the publication of "The Rosa Lemberg Story" by Eva Erickson in 1993 (Tyomies Society, Superior, Wisconsin). Included is also an album of photographs from a Finnish American Labor Sports Union Training Campheld in Loon Lake, Michigan in 1929. Research notes, drafts of book chapters, correspondence, photographs, typescripts of literary texts.

Abstract Papers (1882-1987) of Frank Stohl consist of a photocopy of an essay entitled "The Eureka (California) Brotherhood Lodge History" by Hilma Siikala, translated by Stohl; a register of Finnish Americans in Reedley, CA (including those Finnish pioneers still living in 1955), compiled for a 50th anniversary celebration of the Finnish settlement in the area; and photocopies of manuscripts by Stohl entitled "Finnish Women of Reedley, California," and "The History of the Reedley Finnish Brotherhood...

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Papers (1937-1966) of Helana (Ogrodowska) Bristol (b. 1896), an author and former teacher of English at the Philadelphia High School for Girls, include her manuscript and published writings. She wrote the long narrative poem Let the Blackbird Sing and the reminiscence, After Thirty Years: Poland Revisited.

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Constitution documents, minutes, member lists, correspondence, accounting documents, questionnaires.

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Collection consists of materials (correspondence, reports, articles, conference brochures, etc.) pertaining to the Ukrainian National Women's League of America (UNWLA) - Branch 72; the Women's National Republican Club, Inc.; and the New York Metropolitan Committee Commemorating the Milenium of Chrsitianity in Ukraine. Included are also photographs.

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Papers (1930s-1960s) of author-illustrator Marie Hall Ets (b. 1895) consist of stories told to Mrs. Ets by Rosa Cassettari, as well as research notes and manuscript drafts forming the basis of Mrs. Ets' book, Rosa, The Life of an Italian Immigrant (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1970).

Abstract Papers (1953-1987) of Mary Mantis comprise newspaper clippings, brochures, newsletters, reports and bulletins pertaining to Greek Americans and Greek American organizational activity. Included are a guide and questionnaire to an oral history collection project entitled "Arete: The Memories of Greek American Women"; correspondence, reports, and minutes of the St. Paul (Minn.) chapter of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA); miscellaneous AHEPA publications; books,...

Abstract The Mary Romano Order Sons of Italy in America (CN) collection consists of correspondence of Gloria #1117 (1936-1955); Connecticut Grand Lodge correspondence (1939-1953); a photocopy of the 1921 charter application of Gloria #1117. Grand Convention materials include a photocopy of the 1935 Convention booklet, grand venerable reports for 1939 and 1941, and the agenda for the 1955 convention. A booklet for the 1939 Silver Jubilee Dinner of the grand lodge, and one from the 1969 Columbus Day...

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Collection consists of membership dues receipt books for St. John's Greek Catholic Parish in northeast Minneapolis and for the affiliated Lodge No. 300 of the Union of Greek Catholic Russian Brotherhoods, receipts for remittances sent by Michael Skripich to Paloha Szkripicz in Havaskoz, Hungary (1918-1938 Liuta, Czechoslovakia, today Ljuta, Ukraine) and two postcards sent to Michael Skripich from California and Alaska.

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Papers (1908-1976) of Miriam M. Moon, an actress, consist of correspondence; newspaper clippings; and photographs relating to her theatrical career.

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Correspondence, convention programs and artifacts documenting history of several local OSIA Lodges in New York.

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Papers (1956-1974) of Rose Grieco consist of a typescript of her comedy "Anthony on Overtime," and several published articles on Italians and Italian American themes, as well as clippings about her.

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Materials pertaining to Rosemary De Nicolo's activities in her local OSIA Lodge, incl. correspondence, newsclippings and photographs.

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Safira (Oksanen) Kallio was born in Finland on April 12, 1894 and emigrated to the United States in 1913. She served as a local correspondent from Owen, Wisconsin for the Finnish American newspaper "Minnesotan Uutiset" (later, "Amerikan Uutiset"). Much of her poetry was published in the newspaper.

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Records (1919-1938) of the Sherit Jacob Israel Synagogue (Cleveland, Ohio) consist of financial records, minute book, membership lists, and miscellany. Included are membership lists and minutes of the Sharith Jacob Congregation Sisterhood, organized in 1932.

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Collection consists of transcripts of four oral histories conducted by Sirkka Tuomi Holm with Anna Zellinger, Helga Wirta, Helmi Tusa, and Senja Jarvis, all in Baltimore, Maryland. Included are also photographs and five cassette tapes containing the recorded interviews. The histories describe life in Finland before emigration, accounts of the journey across the Atlantic and resettlement in the eastern states of the U.S.

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Papers of Sonja Weed consist of her biography "Across the Sea" written by her daughter Jenny Weed (1983) and hand-written manuscripts of the book written by Sonja Weed herself. Also two photographs and a photocopy of a newspaper article.

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Papers (1919-1983, bulk 1919-1963), consist of correspondence, photographs, school records, news clippings, reports, typescript memoir, and published materials documenting Mickritz’s career as a nurse, especially her service with the Polish Grey Samaritans. The majority of materials are bound in two scrapbooks, individual documents are encased in plastic sleeves.

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Collections consists of the organization's meeting minutes, correspondence, anniversary event programmes and photographic documentation, copies of branch and member award certificates. Included are also financial records (accounting, reports, fundraising activities) and annual reports.

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Papers consist of correspondence, literary manuscripts, typescripts of memoirs, speeches, stories, poems, and Polish legends for young people, pencil drawings, collected articles about Poland, and photographs.

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Papers (1960-1968) of Vojtech E. Andic consist of articles, speeches, and souvenir programs.