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Daniel Carkner🥀

another cool thing that was in the Kolmear collection, though not actually helpful in my research about musicians, were the original application forms to join the organization from ~110 years ago, with occupation and medical history and signatures of members who had sponsored them. of all the landsnmanshaft / mutual aid society collections I've looked at at YIVO, under 10 of the collections had these kinds of intake forms preserved, usually in a mix of English, Yiddish and German.

part of a photograph of an old tattered paper form with info about age and medical history. this one says Age 27, occupation Smoking Pipes.
part of a photograph of an old tattered paper form with info about age and medical history. on this one it says Age 19, occupation Pipe Makar [sic]. at the top it has also been written Kancelld, p.70.
part of a photograph of an old tattered paper form with info about age and medical history. this one says name Joseph Godt(?), age 20 years, occupation tailor. another form in german has been placed on top of the other page, with information from the doctor about the medical status of this person.
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Daniel Carkner🥀

those relief orgs would often get photos from "back home" where they were sending money for charity or projects. in this one there were a lot from the 1940s either in Kolomyia or a few from Israel where the refugees had been displaced to. in the NY context these relief orgs were especially active in the 1920s post- WWI and Russian Revolution when conditions were quite bad in many Jewish towns, and of course after WWII like these photos, when many of the holocaust survivors returned.

a black and white photo of five people posing in 1940s clothing, the man seated at the middle has crutches and bandages on his feet.
writing on the back of a photo. "Received May 2 19248, from Brauer Solomon Str. St. Cel-Mare 2 Radauti Romania." someone added "He's a Kolmear" in different handwriting.
an old black and white photo of two people from the 1940s. a woman is standing behind a cart, a man with crutches is sitting inside the cart.
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Daniel Carkner🥀

quite typically a few of these landsmanshaftn / geographically organized mutual aid societies would band together to raise money for a cause back home. like here a few of the Kolomea groups in NY (and sometimes Philadelphia, etc) make a relief organization and hold fundraisers to send food or open an orphanage or factory back home.

in this archival box it was missing the inside pages so I couldn't find out much more than what's on the cover.

a very decayed cover of an old paper pamphlet. there is text in the middle and a line drawing of an elaborate rectangular frame around it. the main text says Purim Ball and Festival given by the Joint Kolomear Relief .. with some details and where and when it took place in 1945.
#archives#Коломия#MutualAid
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Daniel Carkner🥀

In a few of their commemorative pamphlets they use this kind of muscle-men art that I've seen in other Jewish fraternal organization documents of the time. I'm not an expert on this kind of imagery but I'm guessing it's coming from a progressive, enlightenment, labor-socialist kind of aesthetic...? Anyways, very cool.

photo of a very tattered old paper booklet with a fancy string binding. the cover has come apart. it has an orange hue and the art on the cover is a black and white line drawing of two muscle men posing on a platform and reaching up to the statue of liberty. the title at the top says Souvenier Journal of the Kolomear Friends Association.
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Daniel Carkner🥀

the other day in my research at YIVO I was looking at the materials of the Kolomear Friends Association, a mutual aid society of NY immigrant Jews from Kolomyia (then in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, today in Ukraine).

It tickled two of my soft spots, I love mutual aid societies with Friends in the name and I love the dance/song form kolomeyka, which exists in #klezmer and #Ukrainian music and is named after this place🤓 will have to visit it one day.

photo of some old paper booklets with the title CONSTITUTION OF THE KOLOMEAR FRIENDS ASSOCIATION, Organized January 31st 1904, with the logo and some fine print
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Cette année, en spécialité Chargé-e d'archives (BAP-F) au niveau ingénieur d'études, 5 postes sont ouverts : Nantes université, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Université de Mayotte, Université Lyon 2 et Université Versailles Saint-Quentin. #archives #concours

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Fanny Quément

Première et très belle publication de Phénomène éditions.
Chaque jour, de 1912 à 1951, André des Gachons a observé et reproduit l'état du ciel et ses variations, composant une œuvre unique riche d'environ 9 000 dessins et aquarelles, dont la grande majorité a aujourd'hui disparu. "La Veille du ciel" rassemble plus de 200 planches, dessins et documents conservés chez Météo France, aux Archives nationales et dans des collections privées.
#Mastolivre
#aquarelle
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Couverture du livre "La Veille du ciel"
Double page montrant le ciel observé par André des Gachons. Ciels rougeoyants.
Double page montrant le ciel observé par André des Gachons. Ciels tumulteux.
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