Seen on the left is a truly historic photo from 1921, when Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky visited the headquarters building of the Ukrainian National Association and its Svoboda Press publishing house, located at 83 Grand St. in Jersey City, N.J. Seen with the honored visitor from Ukraine (second from left in the front row), who was then on a tour of Ukrainian communities in the United States, are: (front row, from left) UNA Supreme Recording Secretary Ivan Kashtaniuk; Svoboda administration staffer Maria Kyrchiv; UNA Supreme President Semen Yadlovsky; (back row) Anthony Onysyk, Supreme Financial Secretary Roman Slobodian; former Supreme Recording Secretary Stephen Mylianovych; unidentified priest, Stephen Hladky and Peter Matsiyovsky, Svoboda employees; and Svoboda Manager Constantine Kyrchiv. Metropolitan Andrey visited his faithful in Western Europe and North and South America during the course of more than two years in the early 1920s.
A photo archive of UNA history has been launched on the UNA website. It is a work in progress that will be expanded and refined. To take a look, go to unainc.org/una/the-una-is-125-years-old/.