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Here we are shown the interior of a classroom at the Public School on Olsztyńska Street. The room was built to hold 48 students. Two wooden chairs stand neatly behind each desk, and all 24 desktops are equipped with inkwells. On the wall above the…

In this photograph, taken at the junction of Piotrowska and Pusta Streets, we see two government buildings, built in 1825–1826, rising up on either side of Piotrowska. Before the war, one of these buildings housed the Ignatowicz Brothers…

Between the structure of the yarn cones in the warp preparation machine and the take-up roll of the warp, the threads pass through this frame, called the reed, which resembles a comb. The warp preparation machine consists of a structure holding the…

Here we see one of the many small retail courtyards animating the Old Market district, distantly reminiscent of a shopping arcade. Its broad entry archways allow for access of rather large delivery trucks .

A view of the first yard of the the former brewery of brothers Gehlig. By the 1930's no beer was brewed here anymore, and the space belonging to the factory had been rented out for use as stores and warehouses.

The retail courts once found on Nowomiejska Street resembled today's shopping malls. In this one, the ground floor was occupied by warehouses, shops and various services while the second floor with its wooden gallery housed residential apartments. In…

At the time, Nowomiejska Street saw more commerce than any other in Łódź. Shops and service businesses occupied every nook and cranny in both the front and courts of the buildings lining this street. Thickly distributed across the space of this…

Piotrkowska has always been a street representative of Łódź. On this street one was sure to find all the most important factory warehouses, but upon closer inspection one would also notice its side streets teeming with various small shops and…

“Sala konferencyjna w karykaturze” (Caricature of the conference room)

The Municipal Sanatorium for Patients with tuberculosis in Chojny (then a village southwest of Łódź) was created in 1918 on Dr. Seweryn Sterling's initiative. 80 patients in the initial stages of tuberculosis could be treated at the facility…