University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archives Department.

Sobczak, Regina.

Family papers, 1902-1948.

Milwaukee Small Collection 124

.1 cubic ft. (4 folders)


ABSTRACT: Correspondence, postcards, photographs, and personal documents of Antoni Plichta, and Edward and Stanislaw Malkowski, father and maternal uncles of the donor, Regina (née Plichta) Sobczak.  Included are Antoni Plichta's passport (in Russian, 1911); declaration of intention to become a United.States. citizen, 1913; official documents in Polish and Russian, 1902-1904, including a Russian identity card, 1904; two postcards to his wife, Marya (née Malkowska), 1913 and 1915, and two unidentified group photographs. Concerning Edward Malkowski are postcards and letters, mostly to his sister Marya in Milwaukee, dating from 1919 to 1948. There are also two postcard 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," 25 April, 1936, in which Mieczyslaw and Regina Plichta appeared.


ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law. However, the researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin Statutes 19.21-19.39).


COLLECTION CITATION: This collection should be cited as:

Sobczak, Regina. Family papers, 1902-1948. Milwaukee Small Collection 124. Wisconsin Historical Society. Milwaukee Area Research Center. UWM Libraries. University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee.


ACQUISITION: Presented by Regina Sobczak of Cudahy, Wisconsin in 1980 and 1981 (accession number M81-179).


MARC RECORD SEARCH TERMS: The following terms were used in the online bibliographic MARC record to this collection:


MILWAUKEE SMALL COLLECTION 124 FOLDER
Malkowski, Edward, Correspondence and Postcards, 1919-1933, 1945 1
Malkowski, Stanislaw, Correspondence and Photograph, 1921-1922 2
Miscellaneous, 1936 3
Plichta, Antoni, Papers and Photographs, 1911-1915 4

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