Dmytro Matsko`s membership certificate in the “Concord of Olyphant Societies” mutual benefit society. Olyphant. USA. 1917. Museum of Ukrainian Diaspora

The certificate confirms Dmytro Matsko’s membership in the Concord of Olyphant Societies, a mutual benefit society founded by Ukrainian immigrants in 1914 in Olyphant (Pennsylvania, USA). The purpose of such institutions was mutual financial assistance in case of acute life needs and support for compatriots in Ukraine. The document depicts the Ukrainian and American flags and portraits of prominent Ukrainians such as Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Taras Shevchenko, and American presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.