[78-L] Does anybody know an institution that has a large collection of Polish recordings made in this country?

[goldenbough at arcor.de]

I don't think that a Polka site would be appropriate. 
The polka may have originated in Poland, but it is traditionally known in many cultures. 
The polka boundaries include the following regions and all territories inside, but not ouside. 

Let's start with Alsace in France, from there South to the Auvergne mountains in Central France, 
onward Southwest to Liguria (Northern Italy), Southbound to Naples, across Italy and over the  
the Adriatic Sea to Montenegro, onward to Serbia, North to Eastern Croatia (Slavonia), further 
North to Austria, Eastward to Slovakia, then all the way North including Galicia, Western Ukraine, 
Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, westward across the Baltic Sea to mid-Sweden and mid-Norway, 
South to Denmark, Netherlands, Luxemburg and back to Alsace. 

In other words: you will not find traditional polkas in Western France or even Great Britain, nor 
in Southern Italy South of Naples, nor in Albania and Greece, not in Hungary and Russia, and 
neither in Northern Sweden and Norway.  

Strangely, these boundaries are more or less also the boundaries of the architectural 
style of Baroque!  (Hungary and Western Romania included in this case, because they were part 
of the Austrian Empire)

Anyway, this is why I think that a Polka organisation has little or nothing to do with Poland. 

Benno