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Description: Consists of:
Orange County Illustrated, January 1975 issue with article "Helena Modjeska-America's Finest Shakespearean Tragedienne" by Tom Williams. Westways, February 1946 issue with article "Out of the Desert Came the Santa Ana ... This is the first American translation of sketches written by the Polish author .... who came to America in 1876 and visited Helena Modjeska in Santiago Canyon" by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Westways, February 1958 issue with article "Shrines for Modjeska" by Raymond M. Holt. Westways, July 1971 issue with article "The Colonial History of Orange County: A Chronicle of Its Early Sects' Life" by Jim Sleeper.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1946, 1958, 1971, 1975
Call number: mssModjeska
Provenance: Gift of Stephanie Opid Holton, July 1997.
Associated people: Brousseau, Mabel, (1840-1909,); Chłapowski, Karol, (1865-1948,)

Miscellaneous ephemera and printed materials (7 items)

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Consists of miscellaneous printed items related to Helena Modjeska and/or Poland: Program booklet for "In Memory of Helena Modjeska," Polonia Hall, Los Angeles, California, May 17, 1959, sponsored by the Polish University Club of Los Angeles. "Books and Things" (Summer 1966) newsletter published by Arthur P. and Marion M. Coleman. Flyer for Historical Society of Southern California Orange County trip, October 26, 1974. Invitation to "Poland: The Politics of Misunderstanding," luncheon honoring Jacek Kalabinski, November 3, 1981, Los Angeles World Affairs Council. "Town Hall Journal" newsletter, March 16, 1982, with remarks, "Lessons from the Polish Crisis," by Professor Andrzej Korbonski. "A Modjeska Letter, June 14, 1894, with commentary by Ellen K. Lee," booklet, undated. Typescript transcription of "'To Poland' [poem] by Richard Watson Gilder, On the last return of Helena Modjeska, 1909 ... copied by Jozefa Kudlicka," undated.

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Opid, Adolf (1838-1892). 11 letters and 1 document

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Letters in Polish chiefly written from Krakow, Poland, consisting of: 1869 December 4 letter to Helena Modjeska; 1870 March 19 letter to his mother, Jozefa Bendow; 1871 March 19 letter to his mother; 1871 August 14 letter to Helena Modjeska; 1874 April 18 letter to Helena; 1875 July 24 to Charles Bozenta Chlapowski; 187[6?] November 13 letter to Helena Modjeska; undated letter to Helena Modjeska and her husband; 1878 July 18 letter to "Moi Kochani"; two undated letters to Helena Modjeska; 1888 document signed by Adolf Opid.

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Helena Modjeska portraits (6 items)

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6 portrait photographs of Helena Modjeska consisting of: Studio portrait of Modjeska in costume wearing a headdress, approximately 1890s. Imprint of Louis Thors, San Francisco. Studio portrait of Modjeska sitting in profile. Undated. Studio portrait of Modjeska in profile. Signed "Waters 1907." 2 copies of "Madam Modjeska at her So. Cal Home, Art Supplement with Los Angeles Times May 5th 1907." "Helena Modrezjewska-Chłapowska..." memorial card, 11.5 x 8 cm, with printed text in Polish and photograph of Modjeska as younger woman, approximately 1909.

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Busto Del Generale Garibaldi A Caprera, Eseguito Dal Sig. Bistolfi (1 item)

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Photograph of statue by Leonardo Bistolfi on card stock, 25 x 17 cm, with handwritten inscription to Helena Modjeska (?).

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Photographic postcards of the Arden estate (9 items)

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9 souvenir postcards with various photographs of the grounds and exterior of Arden, the home of Helena Modjeska, near Santa Ana, California. Chiefly colored photographs. Three postcards are blank; the other six contain messages including three to Helena Modjeska; one to Lola Opid; one to Mrs. Chas. Hildebrand; and one to Helen Kozlowski from her mother.

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Helenie Modrzejewskiej

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Cream sash with gold lettering. English translation: Helena Modjeska

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Opid, Adolf (1838-1892). 11 letters and 1 document

Helena Modjeska portraits (6 items)

Busto Del Generale Garibaldi A Caprera, Eseguito Dal Sig. Bistolfi (1 item)

Photographic postcards of the Arden estate (9 items)

Helenie Modrzejewskiej