Consignment Added 2002

Component identifier:

Class MS Acc02.077

Extent:

(5 A3 cartons + 1 ms carton)

Content Summary:

The Acc02/77 instalment comprises records relating to the World Federation of SPK, the SPK Australian Branch, and SPK No. 5, Canberra Branch and SPK Newcastle Branch. There is also the correspondence of the Federal Council of Polish Organisations in Australia from 1954 and 1969-1970. Includes files relating to Fundacja Kulturalna im. Zofia J. Sek-Sekalskiej, Mietka Gruszka, including ephemera from the Polish community in Perth, 1991-2001,Zwiazek Polakow Gold Coast Rejon, Delegatura Skarbu Narodowego w Geelong, Delegat Wojciech Galaska, and, George Miller-Patajewicz. There is also a photograph album of the Polish Youth Orchestra, Adelaide, 1961-1996, plus other miscellaneous, unidentified photographs

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was donated to the Library by the Polish Historical Institute in Australia in a number of instalments between 1997 and 2001. The records were collected as part of the Preserving the Polish Saga in Australia Project in which the Institute contacted various Polish organisations and individuals in Australia asking them to donate records which would fall into the following categories: 1. Administrative records of the creators 2. Records of legal value 3. Records of financial accountability 4. Records of historical interest for public relations and general interest purposes

Extent information:

2.93 metres,

Names:

Polish Historical Institute in Australia

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