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Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre Oseredok
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Biographical Jacob Maydanyk (1891-1984)

This series contains biographical materials about store proprietor Jacob Maydanyk such as personal correspondence with family and friends, medical documentation and miscellaneous personal documents that are not relevant to the store. This series has three sub-series: Publications, Illustrations and Newspapers.

Business correspondence with clients

This series is dedicated to business correspondence with clients which consists of placing orders for goods and services; clarifying orders; drawings of custom made items (e.g. icons, tabernacles, ecclesiastical vestments, banners, etc.); requests for merchandise catalogs, etc. The majority of the store's clientele were parish priests and members of Parish Councils from various Christian denominations such as Ukrainian Geek-Catholic Church, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Greek-Orthodox Church, Canadian Orthodox Church, Romanian Canadian Orthodox Church, Romanian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America, Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Canada and Russian Orthodox Church. The correspondence is predominantly in Ukrainian, with some English.

Business correspondence with suppliers and partners

The series contains business correspondence with suppliers and partners. The store had a substantial network of domestic and international suppliers and partners (e.g. USA, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Ukraine, Czech Republic). The majority of correspondence is relevant to placing orders; inquiries for specific items; shipment, etc. The correspondence is predominantly in English, with some French, Italian and Ukrainian.

Catalogs and price lists

This series predominantly consists of catalogs and price lists. The series also contains the store’s promotional catalogs, booklets, pamphlets, leaflets and pictures as well as suppliers’ price lists, catalogs, promotional booklets, pamphlets, leaflets and photographs of their merchandise. The materials are mostly in English with some French and Italian.

Illustrations

The sub-series Illustrations contains a book with newspapers clippings from the Canadian Farmer (1927-1929) which have Maydanyk’s illustrations in them; miscellaneous small and medium size illustrations (c.1915-1929,1974).

Newspapers

The last sub-series Newspapers encompasses 35 periodical titles (1912- 1979) in Ukrainian, English and Polish.

Objects

In the Objects series several personal (e.g. 5 spectacles in cases; commemorative button pin) and art related (e.g. metal icon of Christ) objects can be found. There are also two maps: Winnipeg and Saskatchewan.

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