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A poster advertising performances by the Warsaw Circus Troupe. Like other residents of Lódź, Jews were drawn to circus entertainment. This can be glimpsed from numerous ads in the Jewish press. Neither was it uncommon for Jews to be employed in…

A view of what used to be Kolejowa Street (present-day Traugutta Street) looking in the direction of Kiliński Street. Carts are lined up waiting to enter the coal yard located within the Fabryczna Train Station confines.

Looking down Piotrowska Street from No. 26. The sign from a publicity sale on inexpensive books still hangs in the display window of the N.F. Otelsberg bookstore. Piotrkowska is bustling: in the crowd we can make out a man and a boy in traditional…

A winter street scene in Bałuty. Several people are entering a gate built into the wooden plank-fencing. A company of women and men stand near a small snowdrift. The figures in this picture are dressed warmly—however, whereas most of the women are…

In this Bałuty courtyard, several children are having fun filling enameled buckets with water from a pump. Not far from the buckets there stands a large barrel—such barrels were used for making sour cabbage and storing salted herring.

This photo was taken in the southern part of the city. In the 1820s, at the site of the village Wólka, a new industrial settlement known as Łódka on the Jasień River (Łódka nad Jasieniem) was established. The photo offers us a view of the city as…

Nowomiejska Street was the main artery of the Jewish district. In 1840 the entire length of this street was still an integral part of Piotrkowska Street. Later on, the segment of Piotrkowska north of Freedom Square (Plac Wolności) was separated and…

Izrael Poznański's manufacturing plant was one of the largest textile operations in Łódź at the turn of the 20th c. The enterprise suffered enormous financial losses during World War I. The next generation of the Poznański family kept the company…

The health clinic on Aleksandrowska Street housed offices for Surgery and Internal Medicine. In this picture, people are seated on two benches in the clinic's waiting room. A ceramic tile stove and large table are situated along one wall.

Wąska Street — a perfect name, if ever there was one, for this narrow street found in Bałuty. The wooden structures and fences, lack of sidewalks, cobblestone surface and rain gutter all add to its lackluster appearance. Several barefoot children,…