Traitors and True Poles. Karen Majewski

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      Illustrations

      CHAPTER 1

       The children’s section of a 1910 Polish-American women’s magazine, Ogniwo (The link)

       Editorial staff of Chicago’s Głos ludowy

       Immigrant socialists in Canada, with author Alfons Staniewski (“Ajotes”)

       Felicja Romanowska, singer, musician, and author

       Editor and author Hieronim Jabłoński

      CHAPTER 2

       Printery of Robotnik polski, Chicago, circa 1900

       Staff of Polak Amerykański Press, Buffalo, 1901

       Office of the Polish National Alliance’s Zgoda, circa 1910

       Antoni Paryski, not long after his arrival in the United States

       Cover of Sen na jawie (The daydream) (1911)

       Toledo printing plant of Ameryka-Echo and the Paryski company

       Melania Nesterowicz

       Zalewski bookstore in Chicago, circa 1910

       Cover of Czar miasta Kościuszko (The charm of the town of Kosciuszko) (1936), a novel celebrating the anniversary of Kosciuszko, Mississippi

      CHAPTER 3

       Cover of Ofiara hypnotyzmu (A victim of hypnotism), featuring the Polish-American detective Bronisław Sęp (1911)

       Cover of Rabusie grobów (The grave robbers), pirated from an English-language original (1912)

       Cover of Wróg ludzi (Enemy of the people), one of the Zofia Jastrzębska novels (1911)

       Cover of W źelaznych kleszczach (In iron pincers) (1915)

      CHAPTER 4

       Cover of Z pennsylwańskiego piekła (From a Pennsylvania hell), a novel about immigrant miners (1909)

       Cover of Ciekawe gawędy Macieja Grzędy (The interesting tales of Matt Seedbed): A “doctor of enlightenment” instructs an immigrant on the importance of reading

       Title page of Jak się zemścił borowy Zielonka (How Greenie the gamekeeper got revenge), the first known Polish immigrant novel published in the United States

       Julian Czupka, journalist and author of immigrant short stories

       Cover of Fat Hanka Dumpling and Her Seven Boarders

       Cover of Mój pierwszy “Thanksgiving Day” (My first Thanksgiving Day) (1908)

       Cover of Anioł stróż i djabel stróż (Guardian angel and guardian devil) (1932)

      CHAPTER 5

       Cover of Zakonny welon (The nun’s veil), one of a series of satirical, anticlerical novels (1925 reprint of 1920 edition)

       Stefania Laudyn, before emigrating to the United States

       Cover of Baczność! Jenerał Tabaka ma głos! (Attention! General Tobacco has the floor!), a collection of sketches satirizing Polonia’s patriotic-military organizations (1913)

       Cover of Na ludzkim targu (In the human market) (1911)

       Helena Staś, frontispiece to American edition of In the Human Market

      CHAPTER 6

       Pan redaktor w zalotach (The editor’s courtship), title page

       Changing roles in the Polish-American family, as shown on the cover of Djabełek, a humor magazine published in Detroit (1933)

       Stanisław Osada, journalist, novelist, and immigrant activist

       Cover of W dniach nędzy i zbrodni (In days of misery and crime) (1908)

       Cover of Porwana w noc poślubną (Kidnapped on her wedding night), reprinted in 1988 from a 1936 original

       Cover of Sprzedawaczka z Broadwayu (The salesgirl from Broadway) (1937)