Fraternal organizations

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This collection includes letters, photographs, pamphlets, songbooks, telegrams, maps, plaques and other materials from Margie Apter's sorority years at the University of Minnesota.

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Anniversary booklets, clippings, programs regarding the Misericordia Society (Societa di Mutuo Soccorso Maria SS. Della Misericordia). Included is also information pertaining to Caesare Avigni, long ttime editor of "Il Pensiero", an Italian American newspaper published in St. Louis since 1904. (Avigni wrote about the Society in "Il Pensiero" in 1945.)

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This collection contains bylaws and directory, 1892 of Canton North Star No. 14, chartered in 1891; 1892 membership lists of the Duluth Lodge, No. 28, and Central Link Lodge,No. 175. Also included are Lodge No. 28's minutes, 1884-1901; their officer's roll call and committees appointed, 1905-1958; and correspondence, 1909-1921.

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Convention summary minutes, correspondence, general laws, ritual book, price list for regalia, buttons and booklets. Included are also copies of American Medical Relief Digest (1945) and Council for American-Italian Affairs report (1946).

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This collection consists of scrapbooks that include photographs, clippings, fliers, and ephemera.

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Collection consists of constitution and by-laws, meeting minutes, newsletters, convention booklets, correspondence, and financial records. Included are also death claim records and non-claim insurance files.

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The collection consists of: certificate of discharge (1871); letter (1872); Declaration paper, Marquette, Michigan, 1878; marriage certificate; Jessie Sparrow’s genealogy; Certificate of Citizenship, 1888; Nobles of the Mystic Shrine certificate; Dept. of Commerce & Labor, Washington letters; and one carte-de-visite of Jessie (?).

Abstract The Raimunds Caks collection is comprised of personal papers that reflect his participation in a number of Latvian civic and cultural activities and organizations since settling in the United States after World War II. The folders include correspondence, bulletins, announcements, invitations, and reports. Though Caks is noted for his activity with Latvian scouting and journalism, this collection contains primarily documentation of his involvement with the Daugavas Vanagi, thus providing...

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This collection includes materials of Ralph Estrin's, in particular as it relates to B'nai B'rith and their social gatherings and advocacy work.

Abstract Manuscript materials pertain to the Croatian American community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois, mainly in the 1940s and 1950s, particularly to the activities of the local Croatian Fraternal Union (Hrvatska Bratska Zajednica) lodges. Print materials (Croatian, Macedonian and Serbian American periodicals and books) have been separated and included in the IHRCA Croatian, Macedonian and Serbian American print collections. Collection consists of meeting minutes of the...

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The collection contains the membership lists, programs and conference materials, by-laws, and a brief history of the Duluth Rotary Club (1964), and ephemera.

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Collection contains by-laws, 1883, and officers and membership list, 1892, of the Duluth Council Number 6, Royal and Select Masters (Masonic order).

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Collection contains a bylaws guidebook, 1869, from the Minnesota Royal Arch Masons, and officers and membership list,1892, of the Keystone Chapter Number 20, chartered on January 10, 1872.

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This collection contains business letters, club memberships, public office materials, condolences, warranty deeds, stock certificates, and bills.

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The collection consists of Aad Temple Shrine Circus programs from the years 1949, 1951-1964, 1966-1967. The programs themselves contain notes from the Aad Temple officers, history of the Shriners, promotional material regarding vacation areas in northern Minnesota, and a large amount of advertising from local businesses.

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This collection consists of administrative materials of the University of Minnesota chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu, a historically Jewish college fraternity.

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Newspaper clippings, anniversary publication, calendar, event program brochures and flyers documenting the history and activities of the Society (founded in 1858).

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The collection consists of certificates; two Rotary Club newsletters from Ely, Minnesota; church affiliation papers; a document in Norwegian regarding Hellena Malene (1865); a Christmas card in Norwegian from the pastor of Concordia Lutheran Church, Superior, Wisconsin; one news clipping; and photographs of: Oscar and Gertrude’s wedding, Oscar as athlete, and AAD Temple Brothers.

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The collection contains correspondence, minutes, bylaws, financial material, and other reference materials.

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Collection consists of oversized ledgers containing membership and financial records fo the parish and the men's and women's lodges affiliated with the parish, photographs of religious events (Easter liturgy).

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One ledger (95 pages) containing handwritten meeting minutes of the organization for the years 1911-1915 in the Rusin dialect. Included is also a translation into English by John Gera from 1995.

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Materials pertaining to the members (and their organization) of the Student Company of the Cesis Regiment which participated in the battle of Cesis during Latvia's war of independence in 1919. The surviving members of the company formed an organized group abroad after World War II and their migration out of Europe to the United States, Australia and elsewhere. Included are newspaper clippings, correspondence, financial records, postcards and photographs.

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Records (1908-1958) of the Syrian Ladies' Aid Society (Brooklyn, N.Y.), a charitable society, consist of constitution and by-laws; anniversary booklets; correspondence; newspaper clippings; photographs; and miscellany.

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The collection contains minstrel show programs for 1951, 1952, 1955 shows and five partial audio tapes of additional, undated shows.

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Collection consists of five ledgers and notebooks containing handwritten finacial and membership records of the organization.

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Organizational records of local branches from Canada and the United States. Included are financial records of the Syracuse, New York, Branch No. 52.

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Collection consists of a volume entitled "El Paso - West Texas Outpost of Polish Heritage. A report on the successful effort by Colonel and Mrs. Francis C. Kajencki in organizing the General Casimir Pulaski Society of the Polish National Allliance of North America, in El Paso, Texas (1959-1960)." Lodge No. 3155 - El Paso of the PNA. Included are also newspaper clippings regarding charitable work of Virginia Kajencki.

Abstract Collection consists of three binders containing: Volume I – “Wolsfeld Family Story,” compiled and written by Marcia MacKinnon, 1999; Volume II (red binder) - historical documentation related to the Wolsfeld family. Johann Wolsfeld, 1796-1854, immigrated to the United States with his family from Prussia in 1852, the surviving family settled in Minnesota’s Hennepin County in 1855. Included are ship contracts, newspaper clippings, correspondence, records pertaining to German American...

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The collection contains news clippings 1904-1977; photographs, 1911; miscellaneous bulletins, articles of incorporation, constitution, meeting reports, plans 1910-1966; YMCA School’s standard course foremanship instructors manual, 1923; three scrapbooks; reports, including Camp Miller, 1927–1949; and a published history of the Duluth YMCA, The First 100 Years, 1882-1982.