Telegraf
The cover page for the December 8, 1917 issue of Telegraf
TypeWeekly newspaper
Owner(s)Vaclav Joseph Shimek, August Klecka
Founder(s)Vaclav Joseph Shimek
PublisherČes.-Am. vydavatelské družstvo
EditorRev. Frank Novak
Founded1909
LanguageCzech
HeadquartersBaltimore, Maryland, U.S.
OCLC number9483768

The Telegraf was a local weekly newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland. The newspaper ran for 42 years, from February 20, 1909, until 1951. It was directed at the Czech community in Baltimore and was published in Czech.[1][2] The newspaper was founded and first published by Vaclav Joseph Shimek, who also founded the Grand Lodge Č.S.P.S. of Baltimore.[3] After 1929, the newspaper was edited by the Rev. Frank Novak and published by August Klecka.[4]

Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library maintains a partial archive of the Telegraf on microfilm in its Periodicals Department Collection.[5] The Telegraf is also available on microfilm at the Center for Research Libraries, the Maryland State Archives, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.[6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Guide to Maryland Newspapers - MSA SC 3774 [OCLC 9483768]". Archives of Maryland Online. Viewed 2011-11-26.
  2. ↑ Tim Almaguer, Friends of Patterson Park Baltimore's Patterson Park (2006) p 81
  3. ↑ "Sokol Baltimore's Sokoletter - May 2010" (PDF). Sokol Baltimore. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
  4. ↑ Chapelle, Suzanne Ellery Greene (2000). Baltimore: an illustrated history. Sun Valley, California: American Historical Press. p. 156. ISBN 1892724111.
  5. ↑ "Baltimore City Newspapers on Microfilm, Listed by Title". Enoch Pratt Free Library. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  6. ↑ "About Telegraf. (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
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