| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Cankarjev Glasnik |
| Title: | Cankarjev Glasnik Records |
| Dates: | 1917-1946 |
| Extent: | 1.01 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) |
| Abstract: | Cankarjev Glasnik was a Slovene American literary gazette published monthly in Cleveland, Ohio, by the Cankarjeve Ustanove (Cankar Foundation), a cultural society named in honor of Slovenian author Ivan Cankar. It ceased publication in 1943. The collection consists of statements of ownership, and correspondence for the gazette, a ledger book, a membership book, and other papers relating to Cankarjeve Ustanove (the Cankar Foundation), and correspondence and personal papers of Ludvig Medvesek, who had a close association with the gazette. |
| MS Number | MS 4169 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English and Slovenian |
Cankarjev Glasnik was a national Slovenian literary monthly gazette published in Cleveland, Ohio, by the Cankarjev Ustanove (Cankar Foundation). In August 1937, Cankarjev Ustinove was formed to erect a memorial to Ivan Cankar, a Slovenian author, in the Yugoslav Cultural Garden in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens. The supporters of this venture decided to start a monthly literary named in Cankar's honor. It featured fiction, plays and reviews, and counted Louis Adamic, Ivan Zorman, Anna Krasna, and Katka Zupancic among its regular contributors. At its height, circulation peaked at 1,100 but the magazine was never financially stable. Its last issue was published in February 1943.
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The Cankarjev Glasnik Records, 1917-1946 and undated, consist of statements of ownership, and correspondence for the gazette, a ledger book, a membership book, and other papers relating to Cankarjeve Ustanove (The Canker Foundation) and correspondence and personal papers of Ludvig Medvesek, who had a close association with the gazette. Almost all the materials are in Slovenian.
This collection is useful for understanding the operation of a ethnic non-profit organization as well as journalistic ventures in the Slovenian-American community. Those studying the history of the Slovene immigrant community in Cleveland, Ohio, and the literature of Slovene Americans will find this collection useful.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4169 Cankarjev Glasnik Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Slovenian National Home, 1981.
Processed by Daniel J. Linke in 1988.
Series I: Cankarjev Glasnik 1917-1944 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Statements of ownership, management and circulation 1938-1942 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence 1917 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2-11 | Correspondence 1936-1944 undated | |||||||||
Series II: Cankarjev Ustanove 1936-1942 |
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| Folder | |||||||||||
| 19 | Oversize Folder 1: Articles of Incorporation 1937 | ||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Ledger book 1936-1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Membership book 1936-1937 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Miscellaneous publications 1936-1942 | |||||||||
Series III: Ludvig Medvesek Personal Papers 1917-1946 |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Budget and Ledger books 1917 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Correspondence 1930-1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Correspondence, between Medvesek and his son, Milan 1944-1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Miscellaneous, including membership cards to socialist organizations 1918-1925 | |||||||||