Descriptive Summary | |
Repository: | Georgia Historical Society |
Creator: | Poland. |
Title: | Robert Patrick Daily certificate and statutes of the Order of Regenerated Poland |
Dates: | 1932 March 8 |
Extent: | 0.1 cubic feet (1 folder, 1 oversize folder) |
Identification: | MS 2217 |
Robert Patrick Daily (1882-1951) was a life-long resident of Savannah, Georgia. He was a local historian and retired grocer. He compiled many articles on Savannah history, including one on the Polish flag of the period of General Casimir Pulaski. This article won him nationwide recognition and a medal from the Republic of Poland. It was published in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. XIV, p. 303-323 (December 1930) under the title, "Finding the Lost Flag of Poland."
This collection contains a certificate confirming the rank of Cavalier of the Order of Regenerated Poland to Robert Patrick Daily along with the statutes of the Order of Regenerated Poland. The certificate is dated March 8, 1932 and the guidelines were adopted in December 1921. The original certificates and statutes are written in Polish but there are also English transcriptions of these documents.
Custodial History
Unknown.
Preferred Citation
[item identification], Robert Patrick Daily certificate and the statutes of the Order of Regenerated Poland, MS 2217, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Stephen Bohlin-Davis, 1985.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Georgia Historical Society. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Division of Library and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Georgia Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Robert Patrick Daily, "Finding the Lost Flag of Poland," Georgia Historical Quarterly 14, (December 1930): 303-323.
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1 | Statues of the Order of Regenerated Poland, December 1921 | ||||||||||||
This folder contains Statues of the Order of Regenerated Poland, English transcriptions of both the statutes and the certificate. | |||||||||||||