Papers, 1870-1975.

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Papers, 1870-1975.

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Records of Czech organizations Bardoun was active in or had an historical interest in, particularly the district council of the Workers Gymnastic Union and its various Cleveland units (Buckeye, Karl Marx, Lassalle, Mt. Pleasant). Included are minute books, correspondence, publications and newspaper clippings, as well as Bardoun's manuscript general history of the Cleveland DTJ and its unit divisions. Included are records re: the Vojan Singing & Dramatic Society, Taborville, American Labor News, the American Sokol Organization, the Bohemian National Hall, the Czech-American National Alliance, the Czechoslovak National Council of America, the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Organization, the Czechoslovak Society of America, the Ohio Grand Lodge of the Unity of Czech Women, and misc. other Czech groups. Also included are personal papers of Frank Bardoun containing autobiographical material, scrapbooks and clippings. The collection also pertains to socialism in Cleveland, Czech fraternal development, gymnastics, the socialist response to the Depression, the ethnic response to World War II, ethnic fraternal insurance development in Cleveland, and women's history.

10.30 linear ft.

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Czechoslovak National Council of America

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Dělnické Tělecvičné Jednoty.

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Czechoslovak Society of America

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A continuation of Česko-Slovanské podporující spolek (Czecho-Slavonic Benevolent Society) of the 1850s which worked to improve the economic, spiritual and physical well being of Czech immigrants and their descendants. The Society organized its members into lodges and through these lodges provided them with life insurance, cultural activities, and a forum for discussion of political and social issues. From the description of Records, 1898-1936 1932-1936. (Rhinelander District Libr...

Bardoun, Frank Joseph, 1905-1988.

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Prominent Czech-American from Cleveland, Ohio involved in several local and national Czech-American organizations and activities, particularly the Workers Gymnastic Union (Dělnické Tělecvičné Jednoty), founded in Cleveland in 1909 by Czech Socialists. Patterned after workingmen's sokol units in Bohemia, the purpose of the DTJ was to build worker solidarity via gymnastic activities and also to promote Czech nationalism. Singing and dramatic groups such as Vojan augmented DTJ activities. The ...

American Labor News.

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Unity of Czech Women. Ohio Grand Lodge

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Vojan Singing and Dramatic Society

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American Sokol Organization

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Bohemian National Hall (Cleveland, Ohio)

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Czech Social Democratic Organization.

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Czech-American National Alliance.

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