The Ukrainian National Women's League of America donated a collection of rare publications and archival materials to the Museum of the Ukrainian Diaspora in Kyiv. These materials will complement the museum's collection and contribute to the study of Ukrainian culture abroad.
This was reported by UNWLA.
Among the gifts is a unique photo album of UNWLA Chapter 28 in Newark, New Jersey, with original photos from the 1950s and 1960s. The photo in which members of the organization are depicted near the monument to Taras Shevchenko in Washington is special.
The museum also received important periodicals of the diaspora, including the children's magazine "The Rainbow", which was published from the 1950s to the 1990s, the illustrated magazine "Terem" of the Ukrainian Cultural Institute in America, and "Visti", which covered the cultural life of Minneapolis in the 1960s -x.
The collection also includes Serhii Lytvynenko's album "Sculptor", published in 1956 under the editorship of Svyatoslav Gordynskyi, which contains personal photos of the artist and articles by famous art historians.
Other materials include a commemorative book for the 30th anniversary of the death of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi (1974), the catalog "Ukrainians at Harvard" (1977), and archival documents of the 28th UNWLA department. The organization looks forward to sharing these treasures through the museum and its #diasporaartifact series.
Author: Danylo Pievchev