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Łódź Sick Fund Building - 34/36 Łagiewnicka Street
This building, constructed before WWII for use by the Łódź's Sick Fund (Kasa Chorych), numbered among the most elegant edifices in Bałuty at the time. Above the modernist framework we can see part of a large inscription: THE ŁÓDŹ SICK FUND. At…
Lutomirska Street - view from the Church of the Most Holy Virgin Mary
A view of Lutomirska Street from St. Mary's Church. Poor single-storey houses form a drab backdrop for the daily commotion which as a rule dominated here, in the very center of the Old Town. Numerous pedestrians rush past on both sides of the street,…
Lodge on Kopernik (Copernicus) Street - view from the rear courtyard
This wooden multi-story house with an addition was situated just behind the lodge. Eight children stand in the yard posing for the photograph. A man and woman are busy hanging laundry out to dry while three young women observe the scene from their…
Living Pictures at the American Bioscope
Ad from a 1903 calendar, publicizing film presentation in one of the earliest cinematic venues in Łódź, the American Bioscope, owned by the enterprising Krzemiński brothers. Most of the films shown here were the brief but beautifully imaginative…
Krótka Street (Bałuty)
Krótka Street was typical of Bałuty in the years leading up to World War II. The cobblestone pavement possessed rain gutters but no sidewalks, encouraging pedestrians to walk across its full expanse. The single- and two-storey homes, usually made of…