Albina Rose Cermak Photographs 1904-1978

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Albina Rose Cermak Photographs 1904-1978

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Albina Cermak (1904-1978) was active in Republican Party politics in Cleveland, Ohio. She was vice-chairman and secretary of the Cuyahoga County Republican Central and Executive Committees, chairman of the Republican Women's Organization of Cuyahoga County, member of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, a Cleveland, Ohio, precinct committeewoman, and a member of the Ohio Federation of Republican Women's Clubs. She was a United States Customs Collector before running unsuccessfully for Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio state senator and Clerk of the Cleveland Municipal Court. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Albina Cermak in her various posts, including United States Collector of Customs, with officials and employees. There are also Cermak family portraits, and individual portraits of noted politicians, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, and Frances Payne Bolton, inscribed to Albina Cermak.

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Cermak, Albina Rose, 1904-1978

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Albina Rose Cermak (1904-1978) was a leader in Cleveland Republican Party activities and civic affairs. Born in Cleveland, she was the daughter of Frank J. and Rose Cermak, a Republican precinct committeeman and a suffragette, respectively. Albina Cermak was educated at St. Agnes School, Clark School, Lincold High School, and was for a brief time enrolled as a nurse trainee at Mt. Sinai Hospital, until her mother's ill health forced her to quit that course of study to become a bookkeeper, sec...