Edmond Kowalewski papers
Collection 4634
1925-1975, undated(0.8 Linear feet ; 2 boxes)
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Creator
- Kowalweski, Edmond.
- Title
- Edmond Kowalewski papers
- ID
- 4634
- Date
- 1925-1975, undated
- Extent
- 0.8 Linear feet ; 2 boxes
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Phillip Foglia.
- Language
- English
Preferred citation
[Indicate cited item or series here], Edmond Kowalewski papers (Collection 4634), Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Abstract
Called the “bard of Wharton Square,” Edmond Kowalewski (1904-1977) was a Polish American poet and writer from Philadelphia. His published compilations include Deaf Walls (1928, 1933) and Cansticks and Cressets (1959). He also authored The Secret Place, a Play in Three Acts (1958), Souvenir of Venice (1960), and Turk at Work (1965) on the 1915 Armenian genocide. He passed away in 1977 and is buried at Ivy Hill Cemetery in northwest Philadelphia. This collection contains poems, correspondence, much of which is between Kowalewski and his brother, Jozef, but includes letters between Kowalewski and writer Edward Pinkowski; copies of Kowalewski's works; clippings; a small number of family history papers and photographs; and copies of Kowalewski's unpublished autobiography "The Black Lightning."
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; 2024.
1300 Locust StreetPhiladelphia, PA, 19107
215-732-6200
Access restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Provenance
Gift of Peter J. Obst, 2023.
Accession number 2023.105.
Related Materials
Separated materials
Transferred to HSP library:
"Deaf Walls": Poems of Edmond Kowalewski (1933) (call number PS3521 .O92 1933).
Controlled Access Headings
Genre(s)
- Poetry.
Personal Name(s)
- Obst, Peter J.
- Pinkowski, Edward, 1916-2020.
Subject(s)
- American poetry--20th century.
- Poetry--20th century.
- Polish American poetry.
Collection Inventory
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Plays |
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Italian Experience |
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Correspondence 1 |
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Correspondence 2 |
1 | 4 | ||
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Theater Culture in Post-Atomic America |
1 | 5 | ||
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Helen Kowalewski's Speech at St. Aloysius' Parish |
1 | 6 | ||
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Reviews of Deaf Walls 1 |
1 | 7 | ||
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Reviews of Deaf Walls 2 |
1 | 8 | ||
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Reviews of Deaf Walls 3 |
1 | 9 | ||
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Notebook of Poems |
1 | 10 | ||
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Photographs |
1 | 11 | ||
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Newspaper Clippings |
1 | 12 | ||
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The Silver Bedpan |
1 | 13 | ||
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Autobiographical |
1 | 14 | ||
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Poems |
1 | 15 | ||
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Deaf Walls (first edition) |
2 | 1 | ||
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Souvenir of Venice |
2 | 2 | ||
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The Secret Place |
2 | 3 | ||
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Turk at Work |
2 | 4 | ||
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Poe Memorial |
2 | 5 | ||
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Cards |
2 | 6 | ||
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The Black Lightning |
2 | 7 | ||
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The Black Lightning (unbound) |
2 | 8 | ||
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Miscellaneous |
2 | 9 | ||
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The Symphonist Movement |
2 | 10 | ||
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