New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library

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