| Telegraf | |
| Type: | Weekly newspaper |
| Owners: | Vaclav Joseph Shimek, August Klecka |
| Founder: | Vaclav Joseph Shimek |
| Publisher: | Čes.-Am. vydavatelské družstvo |
| Editor: | Rev. Frank Novak |
| Foundation: | 1909 |
| Language: | Czech |
| Headquarters: | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Oclc: | 9483768 |
The Telegraf was a local weekly newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland. The newspaper ran for 42 years, from February 20, 1909, until 1951. It was directed at the Czech community in Baltimore and was published in Czech.[1] [2] The newspaper was founded and first published by Vaclav Joseph Shimek, who also founded the Grand Lodge Č.S.P.S. of Baltimore.[3] After 1929, the newspaper was edited by the Rev. Frank Novak and published by August Klecka.[4]
Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library maintains a partial archive of the Telegraf on microfilm in its Periodicals Department Collection.[5] The Telegraf is also available on microfilm at the Center for Research Libraries, the Maryland State Archives, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.[6]