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SOURCES OF UKRAINIAN HISTORY: THE UKRAINIAN MUSEUM’S PHOTO COLLECTION Are you one of many people who have old, yellowed photographs somewhere in a dusty album in the back of your clothes drawer? These may be photographs of a great grandmother, cousins, uncles or aunts at their daily work, or attending some family, cultural or community event. For us Ukrainians these photographs have sentimental value. We often pull them out at family gatherings, look at them together, and fondly recall events in our family’s history. But such photographs usually remain in our homes (unless some family member becomes well known). Eventually, these photos turn yellow, crumble, and become undecipherable. Our ancestors need not be well known in order to make their photographs of museum value and worthy of professional preservation. The photo of your aunt with her travel bags, setting out for America, is a valuable documentation of that period of our Ukrainian history. OUR COVER On our cover we have a photograph of Nastunia and Ivan Somysh from the village of Vilchivka, in Bojkivshchyna. They are both wearing "kozhuchy” from the village of Cineva, with their characteristic designs. In this issue we are printing several other photographs by Y. Koval, a few of which also depict "kozhuchy.” Olena Kachala, the owner of these photographs, brought us a beautiful album of very well-kept, titled, and dated photographs, all of excellent artistic quality. Volodymyr Hrytsyn made reproductions of some of these pictures for "Our Life”, as well as for the Ukrainian Museum. The album contains photographs of ethnographic content, depicting "vechernyci”, "obzhynky”, weddings. There are also excellent photographs depicting typical girls in native costumes, an old fisherman (reproduced in this issue) and many others. There are also quite a few pictures of elaborately carved boxes, which in themselves present a most interesting subject for study. In the album we also see a picture of a church from Cineva. This style church was built in Bojkivshchyna, as well as throughout Halychyna. Yurij Kostiw, who designed the Ukrainian church in Hunter, NY studied under architects and artisans from Cineva. Besides photographs of ethnographic subject matter, we find a picture of Oleksa Novakivskyj, several actors, artistic prints of nature and "still-life.” In this issue we are including an article about the photo graph collection of the Ukrainian Museum; we now bring your attention to the album of Olena Kachala due to the fact that all the photographs are clearly titled and dated, also containing the name of the photographer. This adds more value to the collection, preserving forever interesting photographs from Bojkivshchyna. Olena Kachala donated this irreplacable album to the Ukrainian Museum, and made a generous donation toward the repro duction of the photographs. Translated by M. Jarymowycz The photo of your grandfather working in the fields or in the coal mine tells us a great deal about the Ukrainian immigrants' life in the first decades of this century. The photo of your great-grandfather with her friends in a small village in Bukovyna contains a wealth of informa tion about national dress in that region of Ukraine in the nineteenth century. Such photographs of historical value, when donated to the Ukrainian Museum, will be preserved there for posterity and become a valuable research source for future generations. The Ukrainian Museum plans to collect photos depicting the first immigration to America, and also all photos of historical value which document the life and culture of Ukrainian people both in the U. S. and their land of origin. All photos, negatives and films donated will be preserved with the most up-to-date conservation methods. A room in the Museum has been allocated for the collection. The room will be equipped with a special unit to clear the air of moisture and other elements which cause the deterioration of photographic materials. УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ МУЗЕЙ 203 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10003 Замість квітів на свіжу могилу моєї незабутньої сестри бл. п. Петри Паламарчук, яка по повороті зі Сибіру знеможена переживаннями відійшла у вічність у Львові 19-го травня 1981 р. складаємо 50.00 дол. на Український Музей. Емілія і Михайло Цяпки. Замість квітів на свіжу могилу нашої незабутньої, довго літньої членки бл. п. Надії Ґадзери складаємо 50.00 дол. на український Музей. 102-ий Відділ СУА Гемонд-Мунстер, Індіяна. Замість квітів на свіжу могилу дорогої кузинки бл. п. Надії з Мохнацьких-Кізюк складаю 20.00 дол. на Український Музей. Ярослава Яросевич. Замість квітів на свіжу могилу дорогої нам бл. п. Ельзи Заяць складаємо 20.00 дол. на Український Музей. Ярослав і Анатоль Яросевичі. В пам’ять мого незабутнього чоловіка Юрія складаю 15.00 дол. на Український Музей. Ангелина Матушевська. Замість квітів на свіжу могилу бл. п. Надії Коковської- Ґадзери складаємо 50.00 дол. на Український Музей. Збіґнєв і Варвара Табенцкі. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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