Address:
The New York Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018
Phone: (212) 930-0801
Fax: (212) 302-4815
E-mail: mssref@nypl.org
Polish archival holdings: Some of the 3,300 collections
are related to the history of Poland and the Polish American
community. One of the oldest collections is the diplomatic correspondence
of Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Commendone - papal envoy to Poland
- copybook of the correspondence to Cardinal Borromeo in Rome
(1563-1565). Political and social history records are included
in the collection of the Central and Eastern European Planning
Board (1942-1945) - an organization founded in New York in 1942
by representatives of the exiled governments of occupied Czechoslovakia,
Greece, Poland and Yugoslavia. The main objective of the Board
was to elaborate plans for the postwar reconstruction process
- especially for the creation of the Central and Eastern European
Union. There are reports from meetings and correspondence with
the Polish group (Jan Stanczyk and Feliks Gross - sociologist
and member of the Polish Socialist Party) and records on political
relations between the Czech and Polish governments. The second
part of the collection is to be found in the holdings of the
Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America in New York.
The Records of the Emergency Committee for the Aid of Displaced
Foreign Scholars (1933-1945) include some folders of biographical
data and correspondence on the migration of Polish scholars to
the USA. Administrative records of the New York World's Fair
(1939-1940) consist of little information on the Polish Exhibition,
they included is a large set of very valuable photographs of
the Polish Pavilion. The second part of the collection is to
be found in the Polish Museum of America in Chicago holdings.
The records of the International League of Human Rights include
correspondence, reports, press clippings and appeals on human
rights issues in Poland (1955-1985). The International Committee
for Political Prisoners records include protests and reports
on the situation of Ukrainian political activists in Poland (1924-1938),
members of the communist movement and problems of the Free City
of Danzig. Among private papers is the collection of Amelia Kemper
von Ende (1856-1932) - Polish-born lecturer and writer as well
as a manuscript of "Zarys z dziejow krain dawnych Inflanckich
od XIII do XIX stulecia" by Gustaw Manteufell (1908). Also
in the Fortification Collection there are some old plans of Polish
towns and castle's for example Chocim and Elblag (XVIII century).
If you need more information, please contact the New York
Public Library
Manuscripts and Archives Division. The Manuscripts and Archives
Division website: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/mss.html
A list of collections on-line: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/majorad.html#A
Access to some inventories on-line:http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/list.html
Location: Room 328
Map Division
Address:
The New York Public Library
Map Division
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018
Phone: (212) 930-0587
Fax: (212) 921-2546
E-mail: mapref@nypl.org
Polish archival holdings: Large collection of printed
maps of Poland, ca 400 items from 1568 to the XX century.
If you need more information, please contact the New York
Public Library Map Division. The Map Division website: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html
Location: Room 117
Slavic and Baltic Division
Address:
The New York Public Library
Slavic and Baltic Division
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018
Phone: (212) 930-0714
Fax: (212) 930-0940
E-mail: slavicref@nypl.org
Polish archival holdings: Printed statements and constitutions
of the Polish Parliament from XVI to XVIII century. The materials
on World War II are including an interesting collection of photographs.
Also pamphlets, microfilms of Polish ethnic collections in the
and Polish Solidarity Movement pamphlets collection. There is
one letter of Alexander Kerensky (1944) on the Russian-Polish
border dispute.Also the main special collection in this Division is
Aleksander W. Rudzinski Papers. Aleksander W. Rudzinski was a Polish diplomat,
lawyer, Counselor of the Polish Delegation in the United Nations. The collection
contains official and private correspondence of Maria and Aleksander Rudzinski,
biographical data and large set of photographs (1930-1990).
Other holdings: Library with more than 413,763 volumes,
1,200 current serials, and 20,300 microform titles - Slavic and
Baltic region materials.
If you need more information, please contact the New York
Public Library Slavic and Baltic Division.
The Slavic and Baltic Division website: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/slv/slav.balt.html
Location: Rooms 216-217
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