Anna Kuryliw's embroidered purse in which she kept all of her letters. She embroidered it before moving to Canada, a few years before she and Wasyl got married.
This series contains letters, passports, and other textual documents relating to Anna Zabolotna Kuryliw and Wasyl (Bill) Kuryliw.
This is the sewing machine, which Wasyl bought and sent to his home village. Anna is sitting third from the left. She sewed her wedding dress on this machine and brought it with her to Canada where she married Wasyl.
Icon cards from various areas in East Central Alberta, some commemorating priests.
The series comprises six albums with over two thousand original photographs, predominantly of churches of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchies whose territories fell within contemporary Poland and Slovakia (then Czechoslovakia). There also are photographs of many significant Lemko and Boiko events attended by Oleh Iwanusiw, such as the Sopot Festival (1985) and others, and discrete photographs of people, big trees in churchyards, and local nature. The albums are supplied with three binders of detailed indexes, lists, and maps of the churches (in the acknowledgment to his book Iwanusiw wrote that he is grateful to his father, Jaroslaw Iwanusiw, who was his "faithful secretary during the filming, and who was largely responsible for the preparation of the map, and for corrections to the text"). The series also contains an original book jacket of the "Church in Ruin" album, reviews of the album, feedbacks of "Church in Ruin" exhibit attendees in Lviv, and some other textual materials.
This is a travel document certifying that Anna Zabolotna is healthy enough to travel from Poland to Canada.
The series consists of letters between William Kostash and Mary Maksymuk written in 1935 and 1937 (some letters or envelopes do not have dates).