Demetrios Callimachos, a journalist, priest, and author, was born in Madytos (present-day Eceabat), Turkey. He was educated in Istanbul, Smyrna, and Athens, and came to the United States in 1914. He was active in many Greek and Greek American associations. Olga, nee Andreou, was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1885. She obtained her teacher’s diploma… Continue reading Demetrios Callimachos Letters
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Diego Delfino Letters
Seven letters were selected from the Diego Delfino Papers which contain roughly twenty letters. Born in 1874 in Acciarello, Calabria, Diego Delfino immigrated to the United States in 1908 with a medical degree from the University of Naples (1903). As a physician, he practiced medicine in a number of states, including Ohio, West Virginia and… Continue reading Diego Delfino Letters
Alexander Granovsky Letters
Seven letters were selected from the Granovsky* Papers. They were written in Ukrainian by Alexander A. Granovsky’s brother Serhii Neprytsky (6 letters) and sister Lida (one letter). This one-sided correspondence is from Berezhtsi, Ukraine to various cities in the USA where Granovsky lived.The selected letters date from 1913-1939. These long and detailed letters describe their… Continue reading Alexander Granovsky Letters
George Grebenstchikoff Letters
George Grebenstchikoff (1883-1964) immigrated to the United States after World War I, to escape the post-1917 revolutionary developments in Russia. Grebenstchikoff had served in the Tzar’s army, and later in the White Army. His first published works appeared while still in Russia. After his arrival in the United States, Grebenstchikoff continued to publish his works… Continue reading George Grebenstchikoff Letters
Philip Hitti Letters
The following letters, selected from the Philip Hitti Papers at the IHRC Archives, were received by Philip Hitti in the United States from his relatives in Lebanon between 1924 and 1977. Philip Khuri Hitti (1886-1978) was born in Shimlan, Lebanon. He graduated from the American University of Beirut and taught there until he came to… Continue reading Philip Hitti Letters
Jozef Kostlan Letters
While the provenance of the two letters written by Jozef Kostlan is not clear, they provide valuable information about the experiences of early migrants from Bohemia to the United States. The letters are found in the collection of papers acquired from Ms. Zdenka Rypka (nee Sojka) of Owatonna, Minnesota. The Rypka and Sojka/Gottfried family history… Continue reading Jozef Kostlan Letters
Paul and Veronika Kovac Letters
Digital copies of the original materials were obtained from the donors who continue to retain the letters in their possession. The copies included in the DIL project are used with the kind permission of the Kovac family residing in Slovakia. Paul T. Kovac immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century from Slovakia… Continue reading Paul and Veronika Kovac Letters
Frank Lazar Letters
Papers of Ferencz (Frank) Lazar (b. 1877), a Hungarian immigrant and resident of St. Paul, Minnesota, include letters; naturalization documents; photographs; a military pass; membership documents for the Hungarian Aid Association of America; and religious miscellany. Four letters from the collection have been digitized and included in the Digitizing Immigrant Letters project. [tabs] [tabh] [tab… Continue reading Frank Lazar Letters
Anton Nemanich Letters
All letters in this selection were written by Janez Nemanich of Lokvica in the Metlika region of Slovenia to his brother Anton Nemanich who at the time of receipt of these letters resided in Joliet, Illinois. According to Joe Nemanich, his son, Anton Nemanich immigrated to the United States from Slovenia (then within the Austrian… Continue reading Anton Nemanich Letters
Edward Paikens Letters
The Paikens Collection at the IHRCA contains more than 250 letters, documents and pictures exchanged from 1949 until 1977 mainly between Edwards Paikens (Eduards Paikens) who settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota after World War II as part of the displaced persons’ group from Germany and his mother Anna Paikens (Anna Paikens) in the Aluksne district, in… Continue reading Edward Paikens Letters
Vaclau Panucevich Letters
Seven letters have been selected from the Panucevich Papers housed in the IHRC Archives by a long-term IHRC/A friend, supporter, intern and colleague, Ihar Labacevich, who also transcribed and translated the letters from Belarusian into English, and wrote biographical sketches of the concerned family members. The letters were digitized and included in the DIL project… Continue reading Vaclau Panucevich Letters
Antonietta Petris Letters
Shortly after her arrival in Canada from Italy in 1948, Antonietta Petris wrote a letter to her beloved Loris Palma who at the time resided in Venice. He had actually written a letter to her just a few days previously. The following four letters are samples from their correspondence between Montreal and Venice. In 1949,… Continue reading Antonietta Petris Letters
Michael Prebilic Letters
Michael Joseph Prebilic (ca. 1892-1958), an immigrant from Slovenia. Prebilic lived in Eveleth, Minnesota, immigrated in October 1909, later he worked as a miner and a plumber. Michael Prebilic was a member of local lodges of the Slovenian-American Catholic Union, American Fraternal Union, and the Yugoslav Club. [tabs] [tabh] [tab id=”letter-sets0″ class=”active”][icon image=”fa-pencil-square-o”] Letters[/tab] [/tabh]… Continue reading Michael Prebilic Letters
Lucia Fazio and Alessandro Sisca Letters
Alessandro Sisca (pseudonym, Riccardo Cordiferro) was a journalist, playwright, poet and radical anarchist. Born on 27 October 1875 in San Pietro in Guarano (Cosenza), he immigrated to the United States in 1892; there he co-founded the literary journal La Follia , among other journals, together with his father. Following the death of his wife and… Continue reading Lucia Fazio and Alessandro Sisca Letters
Mike Vukasinovich Letters
The Vukasinovich collection contains 4 letters written to (or dictated for) Mike Vukasinovic by his mother in Plavnice, a village near Bjelovar in north-west Croatia. There is also a bankbook; a receipt for $5.00 (U.S. dollars) made out to Milko Vukasinovich dated December 29, 1920, for a deposit on a 3rd class steamship ticket (SS… Continue reading Mike Vukasinovich Letters
Emilie Wehle Letters
As part of a collaborative project with the Sammlung Frauennachlässe (Collection of Women’s Personal Papers) housed at the Department of History at the University of Vienna in Austria, six letters selected by Li Gerhalter have been included in the Digitizing Immigrant Letters digital archive. While the originals remain in Vienna, the DIL project uses digital… Continue reading Emilie Wehle Letters
America Letters (Finnish)
In the 1960s, the Department of History of the University of Turku, Finland, conducted a project that gathered materials pertaining to Finnish overseas emigration. As part of the project, in 1964 and 1966, the Department collected letters sent by Finnish immigrants living in various destinations (mainly in the U.S. and Canada) to their family, friends,… Continue reading America Letters (Finnish)
