Summary Information

Title: Polish National Alliance of the United States of North America. Lodge 2159: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1921-1997

Creator:

• Polish National Alliance of the United States of North America. Lodge 2159 (Milwaukee, Wis.)

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 43

Quantity: 1.0 cubic foot (3 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records, some in Polish, of the Milwaukee Society, Lodge 2159 of Council 8 of the Polish National Alliance (Zwiazek Narodowy Polski), a national mutual benefit and fraternal society for Polish Americans. Included are three cash books, a volume of membership registrations, a book recording members' insurance fees, an attendance book, programs for the lodge's annual Pulaski Day banquets, collected research materials and writings about the history of the Society, newsletters, a Silver Jubilee booklet, and fragmentary correpondence and financial records. Also present is a 70th anniversary program of the Polish Legion of American Veterans Post No. 11 and a brochure in Polish promoting commerce in Milwaukee. The all-male membership of the lodge is composed primarily of Milwaukee professionals, politicians, and businessmen.

Language: English, Polish

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00043

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