Title: Harry Bragarnick Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1930-1960

Creator:

• Bragarnick, Harry, 1879-1960

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 140; AC 258; PH 3971; PH 3971 (3)

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box), 25 photographs, and 1 film (16 mm)

Repository:

This collection is managed jointly by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections and the Milwaukee Area Research Center.

Archival Locations:

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

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Papers of Harry Bragarnick, a dry goods retailer and freelance arbitrator who immigrated from the Ukraine in 1878 and resided in Milwaukee from 1913 to 1960. The collection consists of clippings, correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous legal records which document Bragarnick's role in settling labor disputes, especially during the milk strikes of 1933, and in the hosiery and garment industries during the 1930s and 1940s. Also documented are his philanthropic activities in Milwaukee and efforts to mediate civil cases such as divorce and property disputes. A 16 mm silent film clip records a testimonial dinner held for Bragarnick in 1948. The photographs include images of Harry Bragarnick and Elizabeth Bragarnick; Harry Bragarnick with labor leaders; Harry Bragarnick's seventieth birthday celebration, May 9, 1948; and an exterior view of his dry goods store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, circa 1930.

Note:

Forms part of the Wisconsin Jewish Archives.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00140

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Sue Baumblatt, Madison, Wisconsin, 1983. Accession Number: M83-362

Processing Information

Processed by Cindy Knight, December 1991.

Milwaukee Mss 140 Box   1 Folder   1	Certificates, 1945, 1955, 1959
	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   6	1930-1934
Box   1 Folder   7	1935-1948
Box   1 Folder   5	1949-1951
Box   1 Folder   8	1952-1954
Box   1 Folder   9	1955-1960
Box   1 Folder   10	Financial papers, 1954-1955
Box   1 Folder   11	Legal documents and minutes, 1932-1954
	News clippings
Box   1 Folder   2	Family, 1951-1958
Box   1 Folder   3	General, 1950-1960
Box   1 Folder   4	Milk strike, 1933
Box   1 Folder   12	Photocopies of photographs, 1930-1949
PH 3971, PH 3971 (3)	Photographs Physical Description: 25 photographs  Scope and Content Note: The photographs include images of Harry Bragarnick and Elizabeth Bragarnick; Harry Bragarnick with labor leaders; Harry Bragarnick's seventieth birthday celebration, May 9, 1948; and an exterior view of his dry goods store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, circa 1930.
AC 258	Bragarnick testimonial dinner Physical Description: 1 film (16 mm)