The collection consists of a variety of records which illustrate the committee's work and the events it promoted. Included are correspondence, and financial and other records of the committee itself, mostly dealing with arrangements, fund-raising, and sales of memorabilia. Records of the Copernicus banquet and exhibit are most extensive, and include correspondence, papers, and notes of Dr. Tomasik regarding arrangements, minutes of committee, programs, invitations, and speeches from both events, and newsclippings and photographs. The newsclippings contain photographs of the Krakow Polish Dancers. The photographs of banquet attendees are not well identified, but do portray many members of the Milwaukee Polish community. Other committee activities are represented by fragmentary files: these include a Copernicus concert, an essay contest, vesper service, and Tomasik's attempts to organize Milwaukee attorneys and engineers of Polish background into anniversary committees. Also present in the collection are oversized posters, photographs of a Copernicus exhibit, and mounted pages of newsclippings.
Related records and reference material largely consist of newsclippings, printed articles, leaflets, newsletters, pamphlets, and booklets, all concerning Copernicus and anniversary celebrations elsewhere; and such memorabilia as commemorative stamps, and a musical score. A small collection of Copernicus buttons and pins is included within these holdings.
The papers were created and collected by Dr. Tomasik, and many items appear to be his handwritten, rather cryptic notes to himself and to others, which accounts for the fragmentary condition of many of the files. The majority of the papers date from 1972 and 1973; only a few pre-date 1973, and only a few financial and tax records are dated later than 1974.
