Welcome to MC Library's guide dedicated to Polish American Heritage! Here, you will learn about Polish American history, culture, and receive several book and video recommendations. You will also find helpful research databases and resources from MC, local, and national sources, all dedicated to Polish American Heritage.
Hine, Lewis Wickes, photographer. A young berry picker on Bottomley's farm, near Baltimore, Md. She worked one winter at Youngs Island, S.C. Mother says, "No more."Location: Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore Maryland United States, 1909. July. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018675304/.
Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, National Child Labor Committee Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-108765]
Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives.
Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives.
Credit line: Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project collection (AFC 1993/001), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Credit line: Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project collection (AFC 1993/001), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
Credit line: Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project collection (AFC 1993/001), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Make your plans now to join us in Salisbury, Maryland, for the second year of the Maryland Folk Festival. The Maryland Folk Festival follows Salisbury’s tenure of the National Folk Festival — one of America’s largest, most prestigious and longest-running celebrations of arts, culture, and heritage.
September 19th-21st, 2025
Friday, 9/19/25: 6pm - 9:30pm
Saturday, 9/20/25: 12pm - 9:30pm
Sunday, 9/21/25: 12pm - 6pm
Downtown Salisbury
Free
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