THOMAS CAPEK
A REGISTER OF HIS PAPERS
IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Prepared by
Katherine E. Brand with the assistance of Paul L. Horecky, 1954
Revised by
Margaret Martin and Patrick Kerwin
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 1994
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PROVENANCE
The Thomas Capek Collection of materials relating to
Czechoslovakia and Czech-Americans was presented to the Library
of Congress in four groups between 1953 and 1955 by Anna
Vostrovesky Capek.
Anna Vostrovesky Capek dedicated to the public such
copyrights as she possessed in the unpublished writings of Thomas
Capek in his papers in this collection and in other collections
in the custody of the Library of Congress.
A brief press release on this collection was issued by the
Library on April 15, 1954. A notice appeared in the Library's
_Information Bulletin_ on April 12, 1954, and the May 1954 issue
of the _Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Acquisitions_
(vol. II, No. 3) also carried a report on the collection.
Miscellaneous posters, printed matter, maps, and unbound
issues of the _Bohemian Voice_ have been transferred to the
appropriate Library divisions.
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Readers interested in consulting any of the division's
collections are advised to write or telephone the
Manuscript Reading Room at (202) 707-5387 before visiting.
Many processed and nearly all unprocessed collections are
stored off site, and advance notice is needed to retrieve
these items for research use.
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Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 6.8
Approximate number of items: 6000
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
1861 Born, Czechoslovakia
1880 Immigrated to the United States
1886 Naturalized as a citizen
1888 LL.B., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
1890-91 Practiced law, Omaha, Nebr.
1890-91 Member, Nebraska House of Representatives
1894 Married Anna Vostrovesky. One son, Thomas Capek
1895-1910 Practiced law, New York, N.Y.
1906 Published _The Slovaks of Hungary, Slavs and
Panslavism_ (New York: Knickerbocker Press.
214 pp.)
1907 Published _Pamatky Ceskych Emigrantu v Americe_
(Omaha: Nakl. Narodni tiskarny. 112 pp.)
1910-12 Vice president, Bank of Europe, New York, N.Y.
1912-32 President, Bank of Europe, New York, N.Y.
1915 Published _Bohemia Under Hapsburg Misrule_ (New
York, Chicago, etc.: Fleming H. Revell Co.
187 pp.)
1918 Published with Anna Vostrovesky Capek _Bohemian
(Czech) Bibliography_ (New York, Chicago, etc.:
Fleming H. Revell Co. 256 pp.)
1920 Published _The Cechs (Bohemians) in America_
(Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.
293 pp.)
Published with son, Thomas Capek, _The Czechs and
Slovaks in American Banking_ (New York, Chicago,
etc.: Fleming H. Revell Co. 60 pp.)
1921 Published _The Czech Community of New York_ (New
York: The Czechoslovak Section of America's
Making, Inc. 93 pp.)
Published _Jan Vratislav Capek_ (New York.
20 pp.)
1930 Published_ Augustine Herrman of Bohemia Manor_
(Praha: [State printing office]. 35 pp.)
1935 Published _Moje Amerika_ (Praha: F. Borovy.
271 pp.)
1939 Published _Ancestry of Frederick Philipse, First
Lord and Founder of Philipse Manor at Yonkers,
N.Y._ (New York: Paebar Co.)
Published _Czechs and Slovaks in the United States
Census _(New York: Paebar Co. 19 pp.)
1940 Published_ American Czechs in Public Office_
(Omaha: Czech Historical Society of Nebraska.
8 p.)
Published _Navstevnici z Cech a Moravy v Americe v
Letch 1848-1939_ (Chicago: Tiskem Color Printing
Co. 54 pp.)
1943 Published _Slavs in the United States Census,
1850-1940, with Special References to
Czechoslovaks_ (Chicago: Czechoslovak National
Council of America. 15 pp.)
1950, Mar. 28 Died, New York, N.Y.
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DESCRIPTION OF SERIES
Since this collection consists largely of Czech language
material, Paul L. Horecky of the Slavic Division assisted in
organizing and describing the items. The descriptive notes which
appear on the container list were prepared by Mr. Horecky who, in
making his identifications, used a working list of the materials
in the Thomas Capek Collection made by Alan L. Heyneman, then the
Library's representative in New York, on June 15, 1953, before
the collection came to the Library. Mr. Horecky also had access
to a list supplied by Anna Capek some months later. Both lists
are in the Manuscript Division's Case File.
Container Nos. Series
1-4 Czech Americans.
Correspondence addressed to Capek, biographical
material, and other material relating to the
history of Czech- Americans in the United States
5-7 Slav, Slovak, and Czech immigration to the United
States; Czech organizations, institutions, and
activities in the United States.
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs,
postcards, maps, organizational material,
textbooks, clippings, travelogues and printed
matter.
8-12 Czech newspapers, periodicals, and clippings.
Newspapers, pamphlets, playbills, and other
printed matter published in the United States and
Europe.
13-14 Thomas Capek and family.
Correspondence and writings by Thomas Capek and
biographical material relating to the Capek
family.
14-15 Augustine Herrman of Maryland Bohemian Manor.
Correspondence, articles, and reproductions of
ecclesiastical records and maps relating to
Augustine Herrman.
15 Charlotta G. Masarykova and Tomas G. Masaryk.
Correspondence and printed matter relating to
Charlotta G. Masarykova and Tomas G. Masaryk.
16 Frederick Philipse of Yonkers, N.Y.
Biographical material about this Czech
immigrant of the seventeenth century.
Czechs in Great Britain.
Reproductions of title pages, photographs, and
other material relating to Czechs in Great
Britain.
17-OV1 Oversize
Oversized material withdrawn from containers 10
and 15.
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CONTAINER LIST
Container Folder
Nos. Nos. Contents
CZECH-AMERICANS
Box 1 Folder 1-4 Assorted letters to Thomas Capek from American
scholars, ethnic organizations, and
institutions regarding Czech (Bohemian)
immigration and settlement in certain areas of
the United States. A considerable amount of
biographical information about prominent
individuals is included.
Box 2 Folder 1 Typed copies of letters to Capek from Vaclav
Snajdr, prominent American journalist of Czech
origin, with some letters to Snajdr concerning
his study of Czechs in the United States.
Folder 2 Typescript and manuscript letters from Jan
Borecky to Thomas Capek and his brother.
Borecky was one of the earliest Czech settlers
in the United States and a prolific writer.
Folder 3 Manuscript letters from Lev J. Palda and Josef
Buþata to Thomas Capek. The writers were
settlers in the United Folder States in the
1850s.
Folder 4 Letters from Karel Jonas and his brother,
Frederic, and wife, Christina, to Thomas Capek
and to the father of Capek's wife, Anna
Vostrovesky. Jonas was lieutenant-governor of
Wisconsin and United States consul to St.
Petersburg and Prague. He committed suicide
at his diplomatic post in Germany.
Folder 5-6 Typed and manuscript letters from Jan Rosicky
and his daughter, Rose Rosicky, to Thomas
Capek. Rosicky was an immigrant and
journalist in Omaha. His daughter is the
author of the "History of the Czechs in
Nebraska."
Folder 7-8 Biographies and histories of Czechs in
Milwaukee, Wisc. Typescripts with
illustrative photographs.
Folder 9 Typed letter and photographs from Dr. Henry R.
Maresh to Thomas Capek, February 3, 1958,
about Czechs in Texas and the Southwest. Also
an offprint of an article written by Maresh.
Folder 10 Letters, ca. 1869-1915. Early Czech-American
history.
Folder 11 Biographical materials on Ladimir Klacel.
Clippings and one handwritten letter.
Folder 12 Biographical material in English re Frantisek
Korizek, who started _Slovan Amerikansky_, the
first Czech newspaper in America, at Racine,
Wisc., in 1860.
Box 3 Folder 1-4 Replies in answer to Thomas Capek's inquires
regarding the formation of early Czech
organizations in the United States.
Box 4 Folder 1-6 Photographs of early Czech settlers in the
United States. Each is labelled with the
subject's name and dates. These were used in
the Czech exposition at the New York World's
Fair.
SLAV, SLOVAK, AND CZECH IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES; CZECH
ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES.
Box 5 Folder 1 Twelve photographs and thirty postcards of
miscellaneous Czech monuments in the United
States. Includes a written list of some
monuments.
Folder 2 Ca. fifty photographs of meeting places and
memberships of Czech organizations in the
United States. One clipping included.
Folder 3 Constitutions, bylaws, and recording
secretaries' notes, relating to Czech
organizations in New York. Some of the items
are in pamphlet form; others are manuscripts,
presumably originals.
Folder 4 Graphic representation of Czech immigration in
the United States. Photocopies of originals
compiled from the United States census and
other data.
Folder 5 "The Czechs (Bohemians) in America." Printed
reproductions of photographs of Czech-
Americans.
Folder 6 "America's Making Exposition held in New York
City," 1921. Various brochures on the
contributions of Slavic immigrants to American
life.
Folder 7 Newspaper clippings and manifesto pertaining
to the history of Czech immigration to the
United States.
Folder 8 Textbook on morals by Bartoþ Bittner.
Folder 9 Letter from the Imperial Austro-Hungarian
consul general in Chicago, 14 January 1916, re
financial support of the Czech weekly,
_Vesmir_. Includes clippings and
miscellaneous numbered pages.
Folder 10 Historical pamphlets and clippings.
Folder 11 One share of stock in the New York Cigar
Cooperative
Manufacturing Co., July 1874.
Box 6 Folder 1-2 Notes in Thomas Capek's handwriting about the
Rev. Stephen C. Massock, who wrote the first
Czech book published in the United States.
Folder 3 Maps
Folder 4 Papers and journals of a group of Czech-
Americans who set forth to establish a utopian
colony in Russia in the mid-nineteenth
century. Included are a map of the area and
the budget for the expedition. Mrs. Capek
believes these to be the only records of this
interesting group.
Folder 5 Three memoranda by American Slovaks written
during and after World War I concerning Slovak
autonomy.
Folder 6 "Independent Bohemia" (printed pamphlet).
From Tomas G. Masaryk, sent to Thomas Capek.
1915."
Folder 7 "Protokol Druheho Sjezdu Narodniho Vyboru,"
(pamphlet) 1892.
Folder 8-9 Travelogues written by Czech authors about
America (a collection of monographs, bound and
unbound, 1884-98).
Box 7 Folder 1-6 Travelogues written by Czech authors about
America (a collection of monographs, bound and
unbound, 1884-98).
CZECH NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, AND CLIPPINGS
Box 8 Folder 1 Czech newspapers and playbills from Chicago,
Cleveland, St. Louis, New York, and
Pittsburgh. Includes No. 1 of _Obrama_ (19
March 1887), an early New York Communist
paper.
Folder 2 Czech newspapers published in the Unites
States, 1860-1910. The cover of the first
Czech reader for children in America is
included (Racine, Wisc., 1864).
Folder 3-4 Eighteen copies of _New Yorske Listy_,
1874-1940, and one issue of _New York
Humoristicke_, 1887.
Folder 5 Czech language newspapers published in Berlin
by revolutionary refugees, ca. 1868, including
a number of issues of _Blanik_ and one (only
known copy?) issue of _Correspondence
Tcheque_, published in French in Berlin by the
same group.
Box 9 Folder 1 Ca. thirty stitched but unbound issues of
_Kwety_, Prague, 1838.
Folder 2 Early Czech newspapers published in New York;
Chicago; Omaha; and Racine, Wisc.
Folder 3 Photocopies of newspaper pages used as
illustrations in Thomas Capek's book, _Fifty
Years of Czech Press_.
Folder 4-6 Articles from newspapers regarding Czech
settlers. Holograph notes.
Box 10 Folder 1-5 Newspapers covering the fiftieth jubilee of
Czech newspaper publishing in the United
States.
Folder 6 _Diblik_, Vol. 2, Nos. 1-44, 1878, and a
weekly humorous journal, _Hlas_, 1872-79.
_See_ container 17, oversize.
Folder 7 _Patriot_, 1883-84, bound. Editor and
publisher, Jan V. Capek, New York. _See_
container 17, oversize.
Box 11 Folder 1-3 _Hlas Jednoty Obci Svobodomyslnych_. Rocnik
1-2, 1872-75; Rocnik 3-6, 1875-78; Rocnik
7-14, 1879-81.
Box 12 Folder 1 Pamphlets: _Husuvlid_ (The People of John
Hus), Chicago, Ill., June-July 1953, Rotnik-
XIV; _The American-Czechoslovak Fellowship_
(1942); _T.G. Musark & The Slavonic Problem_,
1939; _Jan Hus Annuals_, 1927, 1930.
Folder 2 _Kvety Americke_: Ruy 1, II, III. (1 vol.
bound).
THOMAS CAPEK AND FAMILY
Folder 3-5 Correspondence received by Thomas Capek, ca.
1907-52.
Box 13 Folder 1-4 Letters from Bohemia, France, England, others
Folder 5-6 Letters of special interest, invitations, and
other material.
Folder 7-8 Writings by Thomas Capek.
Box 14 Folder 1-2 Correspondence, some of which contains
biographical information on Capek.
Folder 3 Anna Vostrovesky Capek, sketch of life,
photograph, bibliography, organizations.
Folder 4 Thomas Capek, Jr., manuscripts, photograph.
Folder 5 Thomas Capek, obituary articles
AUGUSTINE HERRMAN OF MARYLAND BOHEMIAN MANOR
Folder 6-7 Letters and articles which Thomas Capek used
in preparing various works about Herrman.
Mrs. Capek, who collaborated with her husband
in his work on Herrman, felt that much of this
source material has not been fully used.
Letters (ca. 16) from Thomas F. Bayard, owner
of the manor, ca. 1927-31, are included.
Box 15 Folder 1-2 Photostats of official New York, British, and
ecclesiastical records relating to Augustine
Herrman.
Folder 3 Photocopies of Herrman's maps and a map of his
property.
CHARLOTTA G. MASARYKOVA AND THOMAS MASARYK
Folder 4 Letters to Thomas Capek from members of
Masarykova's family
Folder 5 Newspapers and journals containing articles on
Masaryk at the time of his death. _See also_
Oversize
FREDERICK PHILIPSE OF YONKERS, N.Y.
Box 16 Folder 1 Biographical material, about this Czech
immigrant of the seventeenth century.
CZECHS IN GREAT BRITAIN
Folder 2 Facsimiles of title pages of early British
books on Czechs and of portraits of prominent
Czechs in Great Britain and British subjects
of Czech origin.
OVERSIZE
Box 17 Folder 1 _Diblik_, Vol. 2, Nos. 1-44, 1878, and a
weekly humorous journal, _Hlas,_ 1872-79
(Container 10)
Folder 2 _Patriot_, 1883-84, bound. Editor and
publisher, Jan V. Capek, New York. (Container
10)
Box OV 1 Folder 1 Printed items relating to the death of Tomas
G. Masaryk. (Container 15)
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