http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f1-format%3DManuscript%20Collection;f2-subject%3DInsurance,%20Fraternal%20--%20Ohio%20--%20Cleveland.;freeformQuery%3Dimmigration%20OR%20ethnic;smode%3Dadvanced Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f1-format=Manuscript Collection;f2-subject=Insurance, Fraternal -- Ohio -- Cleveland.;freeformQuery=immigration OR ethnic;smode=advanced Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5308.xml The Polish National Alliance of the United States is a major fraternal-insurance organization which was established in 1880. Besides providing affordable insurance, the Alliance promotes Polish culture through language schools, singing societies, and similar artistic organizations. Its clientele is still largely composed of people of Polish extraction. The collection consists of booklets and programs of testimonial dinners and anniversary events. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5308.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3637.xml The Joseph Pestuna Lodge 82 of the Slovak Roman and Greek Catholic Union of the U.S.A. is a Cleveland, Ohio, lodge of a Slovak American fraternal insurance organization. The collection consists of minute books, a cashbook, and membership dues books. The records list the hometown, Cleveland address, occupation, and birth and immigration dates of many members of the lodge. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3637.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3930.xml The Alliance of Poles of America is a fraternal insurance organization which broke away from the Polish National Alliance in 1895, over the issue of membership for non-Roman Catholic Poles. Originally a Cleveland, Ohio, organization, it now includes groups throughout Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania, and has opened its membership to men and women with other than Polish or Catholic backgrounds. In 1917 it changed its name from the Alliance of Poles in Ohio to the Alliance of Poles of America. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, publications, lists, and drafts of articles. A major topic of the correspondence is the Polish Armed Forces in Canada during World War II. A major correspondent is Konstanty Zielecki. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3930.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3937.xml The Forest City Hebrew Benevolent Association was founded in 1906, by a group of Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish immigrants from Slobodka, Byelorussia, and originally called the Slobodker Ferein. The name was changed to the Forest City Hebrew Benevolent Association in 1928. The Association's aims were the improvement of Jewish cultural and educational life, contributing to charitable organizations, and providing aid to Jewish educational institutions and members of the association. It is one of the few benevolent associations that still provides sick and death benefits to members and their families. The collection consists of minute books, dues books, an initiation book, and a 40th anniversary program. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3937.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4134.xml The Slovene National Benefit Society (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota) and the Slovene Progressive Benefit Society (Slovenske Svobodomiselne Podporne Zveze) were two socialist-oriented fraternal insurance societies. Lunder Adamic Lodge 20, a Cleveland, Ohio, branch of the SSPZ, merged with Lodge 28 of the SNPJ in 1941. The collection consists of minutes, financial records, membership rosters, and correspondence of three Slovenian fraternal lodges in Cleveland, Ohio. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4134.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4133.xml The Polish Library Home was located on Kenilworth Avenue in the Cleveland, Ohio, Tremont neighborhood. It housed a large collection of Polish literature and served as a meeting place for Polish groups, including several lodges of the Polish National Alliance, a fraternal insurance organization which sought to preserve Polish culture and worked for the re-establishment of a free Poland. The home closed in 1984. The collection consists of minute books, dues books, and an account book of the home. Also included are minute books, ledger books, dues books, and insurance rolls of the Polish National Alliance, Groups 171, 229, 861 and 2584. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4133.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4173.xml The Slovenian Benefit Society Slovenija is an independent Slovene-American benefit society formed ca. 1895 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a splinter group from Marijn Spolek, the first Slovenian lodge in the city. It provided insurance and organized both the first Slovenian men's chorus (Zora) and a gymnastics group which developed into the Slovenian Sokol (Slovenski Sokol). The collection consists of bylaws, minute books, account books, membership books, a ledger book, and a dues book. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4173.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4771.xml The Freedom Civic Association, also known as Societa Gildonese of Cleveland, Ohio, was founded on May 15, 1917. Guiseppe Perrotti and others established the Society as a fraternal, social, and patriotic association for the benefit of fellow immigrants from the town of Gildone, Italy. The organization offered the Gildone immigrants health and death benefits, taught them English, and helped with employment. Originally meeting at Alta House in Cleveland's "Little Italy", the organization later moved to the Collinwood area. In recent years, the Society met at the Allegro Club until it disbanded in 1992. The collection consists of bound ledger books which record membership lists, minutes, financial information, and secretary's books. The remainder consists of loose materials including bylaws, constitutions, correspondence, membership lists, and financial information. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4771.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4175.xml The Slovene National Benefit Society (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota) is a socialist-oriented fraternal insurance society. It was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1904 and has several branches in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1941 it absorbed another fraternal insurance society, the Slovene Progressive Benefit Society (Slovenske Svobodomiselne Zveze). The collection consists of constitutions, bylaws, minutes, account books, ledger books, membership rolls, dues books, sickness and hospital benefit records, funeral service records, and publications of the national society and four of its lodges in Cleveland, Ohio. Includes minutes of Lodge 120 of the Slovene Progressive Benefit Society (1919-1941). http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4175.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT