Burke Charles Memorial Collection (of photographs), 1914-2000

Charles Burke was a Polish American editor and writer, City Editor of the Polish Daily "Zgoda", member of the Polish National Alliance. He was the first benefactor of the PIASA Archive. The collection of photographs was dedicated to him as a Burke Charles Memorial Collection.

Arrangement in Series: By format - Glass Slides, Photographs and Postcards. Inside each series they are arranged by subjects.

The collection contains photographs from military and diplomatic sources - US Information War Service, British Ministry of Information, Polish States Information Service. The photographs depict World War II battlefields, military leaders, rank and file soldiers, diplomats, statesmen, meetings and conferences, war casualties, military missions of the Polish Armed Forces and Allied Forces in Western Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The collection contains many portraits of military and political allied leaders: Generals: Wladyslaw Sikorski, Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Wladyslaw Anders, Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chiang Kai-shek, Leclerc, Montgomery and Presidents Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman. The collection also contains some original photos from the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 and photos from American Polonia events e.g. from General Jozef Haller's Testimonial Dinner in New York (1940) and from meetings of John and Robert Kennedy with Polonia. There are also portraits of Polish intellectual leaders and the Presidents of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences (PIASA).

Acquisition Note: Gift of Charles Burke c.a. 1960.  
Language: English, Russian, German, French. 
Dimensions: 7 storage boxes, 108 folders, 1.60 ft. = 0.50 m
Local system # 002
Finding Aids: Collection inventory, database description, folder level control. 

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