The Chuchman collection consists of paper currency issued by the government of the Ukrainian state from 1918 to 1920. The notes include state credit notes worth 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, and 1000 karbovantsi; state credit notes worth 2, 10, and 100 hryvni; and State Treasury loan...
Kostiantyn Vanchenko was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. He was an actor, singer, director, and playwright, working in Mykhailo Staryts’kyi’s (1883-1890) and Heorhii Derkach’s (1898-1900) troupes, and later leading his own. His manuscript “Vitrohony: komichna ukrains’ka opera, v 2-kh diiakh (z kozachoho pobytu)” is a...
Alexander Smakula (1900-1983) was a physicist, crystallographer, and inventor. He taught at Göttingen University and then headed the optical laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Heidelberg, and the research laboratory at the Carl Zeiss Optical Co in Jena, Germany. In the United States, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he organized and headed the Laboratory of Crystal Physics. The papers contain biographical material, correspondence from family members in Dobrovody, Ukraine, and circulars and other printed matter from professional organizations in the United States to which Smakula belonged, such as the Ukrainian Engineers’ Society of America, the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and the Ukrainian American Association of University Professors. Scope: 1962-1979 Size: 1 linear ft., 2 boxes
Alex J. Zabrosky was born in Chicago in 1922. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany during the Second World War. Following the war he served as a sponsor and helped families move to the United States. He would also help them find jobs at places such as Ryerson Steel, where Zabrosky was a structural engineer and executive. Zabrosky was involved in the Ukrainian National Association and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. Besides his involvement with Ukrainian organizations, he was active in the Republican Party. With backing from the party he made an unsuccessful run for the 6th District in Congress in 1970. In 1974 he ran again, but lost in the primary to Henry Hyde. The papers include personal documents, correspondence, radio transcripts, press releases, clippings, and photographs. Much of the material is related to his activities in the Chicago area on behalf of Ukraine and Ukrainians. Scope: 1950-1970 Size: 2.5 linear in., 1 box
Theodor Wacyk (1886-1968) was born in the town Kolodiivka, Skalat county, Galicia. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, and later in Vienna, Munich, and Venice. During the First World War, he served in the Austrian and Ukrainian armies. Following the war, he moved to Italy, then Czechoslovakia, where he was a professor in the School of Art. From 1935 to 1942 he lived with his family in Ternopil, and from 1942 until his death in Plattling, Bavaria, West Germany. Wacyk drew and painted still lifes, landscapes, portraits (including self-portraits), and nudes. His paintings can be found in museums in Lviv, Prague, Rome, Munich, New York City, and Toronto. The collection is comprised of personal documents, biographical material to accompany his exhibits, and correspondence between Bohdan Tomkiw and various organizations regarding Wacyk's art work. The bulk of the collection includes photographs of his art work and family; and original charcoal and ink drawings, pastels, and oil paintings. Scope: 1898-1922 Size: 6 boxes
Stepan Vytvytskyi (1884-1965) was a member of the Ukrainian National Democratic party and of the political committee which prepared the declaration of 1 November 1918 by the Ukrainian National Rada. As a member of the delegation from the Western Ukrainian National Republic (ZUNR) to the Labor Congress in Kyiv, he participated in the ratification of the union of the UNR and ZUNR on 22 January 1919. He became state secretary of external affairs, and he represented the Western Province of the UNR in negotiations with the Entente for a truce with Poland. In 1919-1920 he was deputy to the head of the UNR Directory’s mission in Warsaw. Vytvytskyi directed the Department of External Affairs of the ZUNR government-in-exile in Vienna, and in 1921-1923 he headed the ZUNR missions in Paris and London. He was elected president of the Government-in-exile of the UNR upon the death of Livytskyi in 1954, and reelected at its fifth session in 1961. The papers consist of a manuscript by Stepan Vytvytskyi that traces the biography of Andrii Livytskyi (1879-1954), the former head of the Government-in-exile of the Ukrainian National Republic. Scope: n.d. Size: 1 document
The collection consists of a report with photographs that examines and shows the changing cultural and architectural policy towards the historic Podil district in Kyiv, Ukraine during the second half of the twentieth century. The report was co-written by Tatiana Vlasova and Iurii Lositsky circa 1990-...
Kost’ Vahylevych was born in Iasen, Kalush county. He joined the Austrian Army in 1913, and was subsequently wounded, captured, and imprisoned first in Moscow and then in Siberia. Upon release he returned to work in Ukraine. During war with Poland he served with the Ukrainian Galician Army. In 1920 he was...
In December 1951 the Ukrainian Technical-Husbandry Institute Association was chartered in New York. This association was chartered as an education institution under the name of The Ukrainian Technical Institute on August 11, 1954, a modified continuation of the postsecondary school Ukrainian...
he Ukrainian Student Movement Records are organized into three sub-collections: 1) Records of the Central Union of Ukrainian Students (TseSUS); 2) Records of the Union of Ukrainian Student Associations in Germany (SUSON); and 3) Records of the Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizations of America (SUSTA). Established in Prague in 1922, the Central Union of Ukrainian Students (TseSUS) was organized to act as a coordinating body between student organizations outside the Soviet Union and to represent Ukrainian students and their interests throughout the world. TseSUS headquarters were in Prague, then in Vienna, Munich, and Paris before its move to the United States. TseSUS appointed representations in various countries, participated in international student organizations and conferences, and published materials in foreign languages. The Union of Ukrainian Student Organizations in Germany and Danzig (SUSOND) was founded in Berlin in August 1924. In 1938 the organization accepted the Sich student societies in Vienna and Graz, and in 1939 the Ukrainian Academic Hromada in Prague. It was reorganized as the Union of Ukrainian Student Associations in Germany (SUSON) in December 1949. SUSON became the central Ukrainian student organization in Germany and supported the work of its many member student associations. The Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizations of America (SUSTA) was founded in 1953 during the first congress of Ukrainian students in the United States, held at Columbia University. The members of SUSTA were scattered throughout some fifty universities and colleges in the United States. The mission of the federation was to help foster and disseminate knowledge about Ukrainian history, culture and traditions; to coordinate the activities of member clubs and societies; and to raise money on behalf of students. The records contain correspondence, minutes, reports, student questionnaires, administrative documents, publications, and photographs. Scope: 1922-1966 Size: 19 linear ft., 20 boxes
The Ukrainian Knowledge Society of New York City was founded in 1908. The goals of the society were to support fellow members both morally and materially, to foster Ukrainian national and religious goals, and to assist the Ukrainian community in the United States. Membership to the society was open to both men...
The Ukrainian Cultural Society was established on February 28, 1943. The founding members were Anna Bilovus, Osyp Bilovus, Vasyl Furhal, and Vasyl Kolodii. Mykhailo Kazymiriv was elected president at the subsequent meeting. The Society's mission was to bring Ukraine to the attention of Americans, as well as...
The Ukrainian Council for Physical Culture (Rada fizychnoi kultury, or RFK) was founded by Ukrainian refugees in postwar Germany in November 1945. This organization coordinated over 50 Ukrainian sports clubs that had arisen in the DP camps. These clubs organized teams in track-and-field...
The Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart was the predecessor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity. Greek Catholic immigrants from Ukraine, arriving to Boston around 1898, established the St. Peter and Paul Brotherhood, and by 1914 raised enough...
“Z chornoi knyhy: povist’ pro holod na Ukraini 1933 r.” The autograph manuscript by Ivan Tsven’ ia a memoir of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine. Size: 1 volume (84 leaves)
The Chuchman collection consists of paper currency issued by the government of the Ukrainian state from 1918 to 1920. The notes include state credit notes worth 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, and 1000 karbovantsi; state credit notes worth 2, 10, and 100 hryvni; and State Treasury loan...
Kostiantyn Vanchenko was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. He was an actor, singer, director, and playwright, working in Mykhailo Staryts’kyi’s (1883-1890) and Heorhii Derkach’s (1898-1900) troupes, and later leading his own. His manuscript “Vitrohony: komichna ukrains’ka opera, v 2-kh diiakh (z kozachoho pobytu)” is a...
Alexander Smakula (1900-1983) was a physicist, crystallographer, and inventor. He taught at Göttingen University and then headed the optical laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Heidelberg, and the research laboratory at the Carl Zeiss Optical Co in Jena, Germany. In the United States, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he organized and headed the Laboratory of Crystal Physics. The papers contain biographical material, correspondence from family members in Dobrovody, Ukraine, and circulars and other printed matter from professional organizations in the United States to which Smakula belonged, such as the Ukrainian Engineers’ Society of America, the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and the Ukrainian American Association of University Professors.
Alex J. Zabrosky was born in Chicago in 1922. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany during the Second World War. Following the war he served as a sponsor and helped families move to the United States. He would also help them find jobs at places such as Ryerson Steel, where Zabrosky was a structural engineer and executive. Zabrosky was involved in the Ukrainian National Association and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. Besides his involvement with Ukrainian organizations, he was active in the Republican Party. With backing from the party he made an unsuccessful run for the 6th District in Congress in 1970. In 1974 he ran again, but lost in the primary to Henry Hyde. The papers include personal documents, correspondence, radio transcripts, press releases, clippings, and photographs. Much of the material is related to his activities in the Chicago area on behalf of Ukraine and Ukrainians.
Theodor Wacyk (1886-1968) was born in the town Kolodiivka, Skalat county, Galicia. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, and later in Vienna, Munich, and Venice. During the First World War, he served in the Austrian and Ukrainian armies. Following the war, he moved to Italy, then Czechoslovakia, where he was a professor in the School of Art. From 1935 to 1942 he lived with his family in Ternopil, and from 1942 until his death in Plattling, Bavaria, West Germany. Wacyk drew and painted still lifes, landscapes, portraits (including self-portraits), and nudes. His paintings can be found in museums in Lviv, Prague, Rome, Munich, New York City, and Toronto. The collection is comprised of personal documents, biographical material to accompany his exhibits, and correspondence between Bohdan Tomkiw and various organizations regarding Wacyk's art work. The bulk of the collection includes photographs of his art work and family; and original charcoal and ink drawings, pastels, and oil paintings.
Stepan Vytvytskyi (1884-1965) was a member of the Ukrainian National Democratic party and of the political committee which prepared the declaration of 1 November 1918 by the Ukrainian National Rada. As a member of the delegation from the Western Ukrainian National Republic (ZUNR) to the Labor Congress in Kyiv, he participated in the ratification of the union of the UNR and ZUNR on 22 January 1919. He became state secretary of external affairs, and he represented the Western Province of the UNR in negotiations with the Entente for a truce with Poland. In 1919-1920 he was deputy to the head of the UNR Directory’s mission in Warsaw. Vytvytskyi directed the Department of External Affairs of the ZUNR government-in-exile in Vienna, and in 1921-1923 he headed the ZUNR missions in Paris and London. He was elected president of the Government-in-exile of the UNR upon the death of Livytskyi in 1954, and reelected at its fifth session in 1961. The papers consist of a manuscript by Stepan Vytvytskyi that traces the biography of Andrii Livytskyi (1879-1954), the former head of the Government-in-exile of the Ukrainian National Republic.
The collection consists of a report with photographs that examines and shows the changing cultural and architectural policy towards the historic Podil district in Kyiv, Ukraine during the second half of the twentieth century. The report was co-written by Tatiana Vlasova and Iurii Lositsky circa 1990-...
Kost’ Vahylevych was born in Iasen, Kalush county. He joined the Austrian Army in 1913, and was subsequently wounded, captured, and imprisoned first in Moscow and then in Siberia. Upon release he returned to work in Ukraine. During war with Poland he served with the Ukrainian Galician Army. In 1920 he was...
In December 1951 the Ukrainian Technical-Husbandry Institute Association was chartered in New York. This association was chartered as an education institution under the name of The Ukrainian Technical Institute on August 11, 1954, a modified continuation of the postsecondary school Ukrainian...
he Ukrainian Student Movement Records are organized into three sub-collections: 1) Records of the Central Union of Ukrainian Students (TseSUS); 2) Records of the Union of Ukrainian Student Associations in Germany (SUSON); and 3) Records of the Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizations of America (SUSTA).
The Ukrainian Knowledge Society of New York City was founded in 1908. The goals of the society were to support fellow members both morally and materially, to foster Ukrainian national and religious goals, and to assist the Ukrainian community in the United States. Membership to the society was open to both men...
The Ukrainian Cultural Society was established on February 28, 1943. The founding members were Anna Bilovus, Osyp Bilovus, Vasyl Furhal, and Vasyl Kolodii. Mykhailo Kazymiriv was elected president at the subsequent meeting. The Society's mission was to bring Ukraine to the attention of Americans, as well as...
The Ukrainian Council for Physical Culture (Rada fizychnoi kultury, or RFK) was founded by Ukrainian refugees in postwar Germany in November 1945. This organization coordinated over 50 Ukrainian sports clubs that had arisen in the DP camps. These clubs organized teams in track-and-field...
The Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart was the predecessor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity. Greek Catholic immigrants from Ukraine, arriving to Boston around 1898, established the St. Peter and Paul Brotherhood, and by 1914 raised enough...
“Z chornoi knyhy: povist’ pro holod na Ukraini 1933 r.” The autograph manuscript by Ivan Tsven’ ia a memoir of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine.