In 1922, the Board of Directors of the First Catholic Slovak Ladies Association (FCSLA), composed almost entirely of women, posed for this group photo. Sitting in the middle of the first row and wearing a white blouse is Anna Hurban, the Slovak immigrant who founded the organization in 1892. The organization was founded in order to provide insurance benefits to Slovak women against the financial risks that they and their families bore living near and working in the dangerous industrial factories of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Cleveland. | Source: Slovak Institute in North AmericaDownload Original File
