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Summary Information
Edmund I. Zawacki Papers
1942-1957
- Zawacki, Edmund I., 1908-1993
La Crosse Micro 12; Micro 948; SC 775; Disc 166A; Tape 1068A; PH SC 775
0.1 c.f. (1 folder), 3 reels of microfilm (35mm), 59 disc recordings, and 4 photographs
UW-La Crosse Murphy Library / La Crosse Area Research Ctr. (Map)Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers primarily on a two-year study, 1946-1948, proposed and conducted by Professor Edmund I. Zawacki of the Department of Slavic Languages, University of Wisconsin, which aimed at taking a microscopic look at a Polish-derived community in Wisconsin, measuring how both the culture of the Polish immigrant and the culture of the American inhabitant were changed as a result of heavy Polish immigration into the area. The study was part of the Committee on Studies in American Civilization, a research and teaching program conducted at the University of Wisconsin from 1946 to 1953 sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. The collection consists of correspondence; research material obtained from a year's field work by Harriet Pawlowski in Independence, Wis., including eighty case histories of Polish families in the area; various explanations and summaries of the study; and an outline and chapter drafts for the projected but never completed study report. The sound recordings contain Polish and American folk songs, religious hymns sung in Polish and in English, instrumental Polish folk music, and discussions of Polish and American folk ways. Also present in paper form only are several articles and lectures, 1953-1957, by Zawacki on U.S. international relations and the Cold War. The photographic portion of this collection includes images of Zawacki at a Marquette University presentation; speaking on the Cuba situation at a YGOP rally in Madison, Wis.; and driving a car with a placard on top, “Vote Right, Vote Yes, Frank Lloyd Wright Monona Terrace Site.”
English
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