Title: Regina Sobczak Family Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1902-1948

Creator:

• Sobczak, Regina

Call Number: Milwaukee SC 124

Quantity: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

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:

Correspondence, post cards, photographs, and personal documents of Antoni Plichta, and Edward and Stanislaw Malkowski, father and maternal uncles of the donor, Regina Sobczak, Cudahy, Wisconsin. Included are official documents in Polish, English, and Russian; personal correspondence from Europe; photographs; and biographical notes written by the donor.

Language: English, Polish, Russian

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Included are Antoni Plichta's passport (in Russian, 1911); declaration of intention to become a U.S. citizen, 1913; official documents in Polish and Russian, 1902-1904, including a Russian identity card, 1904; two post cards to his wife, Marya (nee Malkowska), 1913 and 1915, and two unidentified group photographs. Concerning Edward Malkowski are post cards and letters, mostly to his sister Marya in Milwaukee, dating from 1919 to 1948. There are also two post card style photos of Edward and a few transcribed biographical notes written by the donor. There is also a letter, 1921 and photograph, 1922 of Stanislaw Malkowski, a sailor in the Polish Navy who was killed during a military celebration; and a playbill from the production Kordjan, April 25, 1936, in which Mieczyslaw and Regina Plichta appeared.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Regina Sobczak, Cudahy, Wis., 1980 and 1981. Accession Number: M81-179