Title: Thaddeus M. Kucharski Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1914-1953
Inclusive Dates: 1960

Creator:

• Kucharski, Thaddeus M.

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 31

Quantity: 0.4 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:

Collected papers of Kucharski, a Milwaukee resident, documenting his involvement with several parish theatrical groups of St. Hedwig's Catholic Church, his children's school years, and family church activities.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00031

Included are scripts, programs, and photos of productions, primarily from the 1920s-1940s, of the St. Hedwig's Alumni Association, St. Hedwig's Ushers Society, and St. Hedwig's Dramatic Society. Kucharski either acted in or aided in production of these plays; most of the scripts have his annotations regarding parts and stage directions. Personal and church records are for the most part interrelated, and include a handwritten personal financial journal (probably kept by Kucharski's wife, Mary), a receipt book for special donations to St. Hedwig's, a 1942 photo of Kucharski and other officers of St. Hedwig's Holy Name Society, and a photo of Mary Kucharski and other miscellaneous records of the Home and School Association and of the Confraternity of Christian Mothers. School records consist of report cards of Bridget and Robert Kucharski, their school exercises, a 1960 graduation program, and a 1918 photo of Thaddeus Kucharski's grade school graduation. Other church records include minutes of the committee (of which Kucharski was a member) formed to plan the diamond jubilee celebration of St. Hedwig's (1946), a program commemorating the golden jubilee of the church organist (1943), a 1949 program for the dedication of the new organ, constitutions of St. Hedwig's Civic Association and the Usher's Society, and the initiation ceremony for members of St. Hedwig's Alumni Association. All items in the collection, including photographs, have been photocopied.

Acquisition Information

Loaned for copying by Thaddeus M. Kucharski, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1981. Accession Number: M81-175

Processing Information

Processed by Menzi Behrnd-Klodt, April 1981.

	Series: Theater Materials
Box   1 Folder   1	An Adopted Cinderella Note: Production information unknown.
	Script, by Lillian Mortimer, 1926
Box   1 Folder   2	Back of the Yards Note: Production information unknown; see also folder 8.
	Script, by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, 1914
Box   1 Folder   3	The Call, by Francis Albert Sheridan Note: Presented by St. Hedwig's Alumni Association, December 14, 1924.
	Program
Box   1 Folder   4	An Evening With Our Minstrels Note: Presented by St. Hedwig's Usher's Society, January 18, 1931.
	Program, Script
Box   1 Folder   5	For the Love of Johnny Note: Presented by St. Hedwig's Alumni Association, May 3, 1925.
	Program, Script, by Harry Hamilton
Box   1 Folder   6	In the Next Room Note: Presented by St. Hedwig's Alumni Association, November 28, 30, 1926.
	Program, Photo, Script, by Eleanor Robson and Harriet Ford
Box   1 Folder   7	Maszyna Piekielna Note: Production information unknown; see also folder 8.
	Script, by R. Turczynowicza, 1917
Box   1 Folder   8	Maszyna Piekielna and Back of the Yards Note: Presented by St. Hedwig's Alumni Association, May 15, 1927. See also folders 2 and 7.
	Program
Box   1 Folder   9	“Mock” Polish Wedding Note: Presented by St. Hedwig's Usher's Society, November 26, 1949.
	Scripts, 1949, undated
Box   1 Folder   10	Polish Wedding Note: Presented November 9, 1941.
	Program
Box   1 Folder   11	Second Childhood, by Zellah Covington and Jules Simonson Note: Presented by St. Hedwig's Dramatic Society, December 9, 1928, January 27, 1929.
	Programs
Box   1 Folder   12	The Whole Town's Talking, by Ralph Emerson and Anita Loos Note: Presented by St. Hedwig's Alumni Association, May 16, 1926, December 4, 1927.
	Programs, Players' Prompt Book
	Series: Personal and Church Records	⇧
Box   1 Folder   13	Personal Financial Journal, 1933-1936
Box   1 Folder   14	Personal Church and Parish Society Records, 1930-1939, 1952-1953
Box   1 Folder   15	Photos - Personal and of Productions, 1925, 1933, undated
Box   1 Folder   16	Report Cards of Bridget Kucharska, 1940-1946
Box   1 Folder   17	Report Cards of Robert Kucharski, 1942-1950
Box   1 Folder   18	Other School Records, 1918, 1920, 1960, undated
Box   1 Folder   19	St. Hedwig's Church and Parish Societies - Miscellaneous Papers and Pamphlets, 1943, 1949, undated
Box   1 Folder   20	St. Hedwig's Diamond Jubilee, 1946 - Minutes of Jubilee Committee, Photo