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The Church of the Assumption of the Most Holy Virgin Mary as seen from the topmost floor of a tenement house located on the rear courtyard at No. 9 Zgierska Street. In the foreground we see buildings belonging to the Church Square, No. 9 Zgierska…

Here the photographer has captured daily life at a house situated on the bank of the Łódka River. A girl with a schoolbag is running, trying to make it to class on time, while behind her children are having fun with water in the cobble-paved yard.…

This photograph features the main building of the Łódź-Fabryczna Train Station, one of the busiest public spaces in interwar Łódź.

This residence, located at No. 15 Lutomirska Street and seen here from the intersection of Lutomirska and Stodolniana Streets, belonged to the distinguished Drewniczow family, longtime residents of Łódź. A driveway leading out from the Bus Station…

These single-story wooden bungalows were constructed for peasant workers from nearby villages who had found employment in Łódź's industrial sector. Most residents were employed at workstations for manufacturing operations in Widzew. Such housing…

The women's quarter at the newly established Jewish cemetery in Doły. The graves are evenly distributed among the birch trees, and the tombstones (Hebrew/Yiddish matzeva) face East as religious ritual demands.

The Łódka and Bałutka Rivers converge at this spot in the Łódź People's Park of Health and Recreation (Park Ludowy na Zdrowiu). Both rivers were regulated by concrete channels. Their grassy banks were the perfect place to take a stroll or simply kick…

This school building at Aleksandrówska Street in Bałuty, was designed by the Polish architect Wiesław Lisowski and raised between 1927 and 1932. An expressive comb-crest crowns the building's main facade. A similar triangle motif appears in the…

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…

The school on Drewnowska Street was designed by the architect Wiesław Lisowski in the shape of a letter "H." The architectural form as a whole evokes the Neoclassical Style while its portico, supported by columns, alludes to the tradition of Polish…