Thomas Capek collection of materials relating to Czechoslovakia and Czech Americans, 1619-1953 (bulk 1851-1953).

Open to research.

Correspondence, memoranda, journals, writings, printed matter, maps, photographs, and other papers assembled during Capek's research on the immigration, organization, institutions, and activities of Czech Americans. Also includes material concerning Czechoslovakia, Czechs in Great Britain, Slavic Americans, and Slovak Americans. Includes newspapers and periodicals published by Czech Americans or by Czechs in Europe; biographical material on Augustine Herrman, T.G. Masaryk, Charlotta G. Masaryková, and Frederick Philipse; genealogical material on the Capek family and other families; and journals and other papers of a group of Czech Americans who attempted to establish a utopian colony in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. Individuals represented include Thomas F. Bayard, Bartoš Bittner, Jan Borecký, Josef Buňata, Anna Vostroveský Capek, Thomas Capek (b. 1895), Christina Jonáš, Frederic Jonáš, Karel Jonáš, František Matouš (Ladimír) Klácel, František Kořízek, Henry R. Maresh, Stephen C. Massoch, Lev J. Palda, Jan Rosický, Rose Rosický, and Vaclav Snajdr.

Maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Maps Division.

Posters and print transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Some printed material transferred to Library of Congress General Collections.

Czech American author, businessman, and lawyer.

Collection material chiefly in Czech with English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009206