Flyer

Publication

Windham Textile and History Museum

Name/Title

Flyer

Entry/Object ID

2023.53.4

Description

A flyer providing information about a scholarship fund managed by Local 460 (the local that represented workers at the American Thread Company's plant in Willimantic, CT) of the Textile Workers Union of America. Printed with by ditto on plain white paper. The scholarships were worth $300 each, and would go to children of Local 460 members who were graduating high school or trade school and going on to college, university, or nursing school. The flyer lays out the rules of the fund, and is dated 1962. It bears the signatures of the three members of the Local's scholarship committee: Mabel Charest (Chairman), Anna Jencik, and Betty Tianti -- but all three appear to be in Tianti's handwriting.

Context

For more information about the TWUA in Willimantic, see https://millmuseum.org/strike/ , https://millmuseum.org/amy-hooker/ , and https://millmuseum.org/voices-of-the-mills/. For more information about Betty Tianti, see https://millmuseum.org/betty-tianti-2/.

Collection

Jencik-Janosack Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Flier

Nomenclature Class

Advertising Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Publication Details

Publication Type

Flyer or Handbill

Place Published

Neighborhood

Willimantic, CT

City

Windham, CT

Continent

North America

Region

Northeast

Date Published

1962

Date Printed

1962

Publication Language

English

Publication Subjects

Scholarship Fund

Dimensions

Height

11 in

Width

8-1/2 in

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Donated on behalf of Lorraine Jencik. Lorraine's mother was Anna Janosack Jencik (1903-1990) and her aunt (Anna's younger sister) was Mayme Janosack (b. 1904). Both Anna and Mayme worked for the American Thread Company in the mid-1900s, Anna in the Synthetics Department and Mayme in Packaging. Both Anna and Mayme were born in New York City, the daughters of Slovakian immigrants John Janosack (1873-1946) and Mary Katherine Hoza Janosack (1877-1901). John and Mary, and their eldest daughter Elizabeth (1897-1977) were born in Slovakia, so the Janosacks migrated from Slovakia to New York sometime between 1897 and 1903. They subsequently moved to Franklin, CT, were they were recorded in the 1920 U.S. Census. John was a farmer. Mayme never married, but Anna wed Emil Jencik (1905-1972) sometime between 1930 (the Census recorded her living with her parents) and 1935, when her son Albert was born.

Created By

historian@millmuseum.org

Create Date

December 16, 2023

Updated By

historian@millmuseum.org

Update Date

December 30, 2023