Czechoslovak-Americans

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The collection includes a memory book of Adolph Josef Kratochvil maintained by him after his arrival to the United States from Pisek, Bohemia in 1883. The text is in Czech.

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Czechoslovak National Council of America, Records contains press releases and news flashes from Czechoslovakia under Nazi domination, American Czechoslovakia, and other sources from 1939-1984.

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This collection contains mostly Ed Kopac's correspondence with different sources during his career as a Montana rancher and livestock feeder. Included in the correspondence are letters to senators, lawyers, and people in business with Kopac. There is correspondence concerning the Czech Pioneer Memorial and his contributions to that organization.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of the newspaper clippings and photographs related to Frank Sadílek. It also contains speeches by Charles Sadílek.Includes postcards published by the Czech Heritage Foundation of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a record of funeral orations of Frank J. Sadílek from 1907 to 1933 that includes articles, a letter of condolence to Mrs. Sadílek, and photographs of Sadílek with the monument erected to honor Czech pioneers in Saline County. Aldditional materials includes...

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The collection consists of personal papers of Henry J. John including correspondence, translations, publications, biographical materials and photographs. The majority of the collection relates to John's medical career and his interest in literature and graphic arts.

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The collection consists of the papers of Josef Falta, including correspondence, diaries and appointment books, manuscripts and radio commentaries.  The majority of the collection consists of scripts of radio commentaries broadcast at WEDC in Chicago between 1941 and 1973.

Scope and Contents The papers consist of several essays, reviews, and articles by Josef Kalvoda including essays on Czech and Slovak prisoners of war in Russia, T.G. Masaryk in America in 1918, Karol Wojtyla, Marxism and the Marxist-Leninists, a Czech view on Czechoslovak-Polish confederation, the rise and fall of Alexander Dubcek, a review of the book East European Integration and East-West Trade, articles from Denni hlasatel by Kalvoda (1982),...

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The collection consists of photocopies only. Includes a military passport, work book, birth certificate, school release certificate, and home certificate of Czech immigrant Josef Krhounek to the United States circa 1905.  Also included are photocopied travel documents for Franz Krefei to travel from Bohemia to the United States in 1879. Anna Stechova's birth certificate, marriage certificate of Jakub Vaniata and Anna Stechova. The documents are in English, Czech, and German languages.

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The collection consists of the papers of Josef Martinek, including correspondence, manuscripts, publications, newspaper clippings, photographs, and audiocassettes.  The materials relate to his career as an author and journalist.

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The collection consists of memoirs written by Oskar Pejsa. Pejsa's memoir, divided into four chapters on service in Austrian-Hungarian military, service in Czechoslovak military until German occupation, activities in home resistance until his emigration in 1948, and comparison of Czech colonels in Austrian-Hungarian army with legionnaires. In Czech.

Scope and Contents The Pauline Sorensen papers are made up of personal correspondence, family genealogy, a personal diary, newspaper clippings of news articles and obituaries, Czechoslovak culture cookbooks, and a 1966 funeral guest book for Sylvia Sadilek Chaloupka, Pauline Sorensen's mother. Also included in the collection is Pauline Sorensen's family photographs, including a photograph scrapbook, and a family autograph book from 1897. The materials also include the 1914 publication, "My Remembrances by...