Title: Lechita Society Records
Inclusive Dates: 1936-1965
Inclusive Dates: 1980

Creator:

• Lechita Society (Milwaukee, Wis.)

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 35

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Minutes and other records, mostly in Polish, of a Polish-American mutual benefits organization (Towarzystwa Narodowych Lechitow) founded in 1912 in Milwaukee which became a purely social group in 1980.

Language: Polish, English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00035

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The name of the Lechita Society is taken from the Slavic legend of the three brothers who founded the three great branches of Slavs: Czech, Rus, and Lech, who founded the Poles. Among the activities of the Society was the payment of sick fund benefits to members; at a meeting in December 1980 members voted to discontinue such benefit payments with the exhaustion of the existing sick fund, making the organization purely social in nature. The Lechita Society was never federated with any other or similar fraternal organizations.

The records consist of a minute book, all in Polish; a jubilee album commemorating the 50th anniversary of founding; membership blanks; a copy of the order of the meeting; and a printed proposal to end benefit payments as of January 1, 1981.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Lechita Society, via Paul Toth and Erwin Janowiak, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1980. Accession Number: M81-22

Processing Information

Processed by Menzi Behrnd-Klodt, June 1981.

Box   1 Folder   1	Minute Book, 1936-1965
Box   1 Folder   2	Jubilee Book, 1962
Box   1 Folder   3	Printed Proposal, Membership Blanks, Order of Meeting, 1980, undated