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“Z ‘Dybukiem” do Kazimierza” (With the Dibuk to Kazimierz)

On a sunny afternoon, we see Zgierska Street from the Bałuty Market southward towards St. Mary’s Church. The architecture is a mixture of wooden houses and tenement buildings, typical of Bałuty. The street is paved with cobblestoned and in the…

A wooden building housing W. Orensztajn's hardware store, near Bałuty Market. Cars and open-air carriages are parked along Zgierska Street. Because of the proximity of the market the street is very busy.

Zielony (Green) Market is shown here as a lively hub of activity. In the crowd people are engaged in buying and selling goods mills around a number of free-standing booths and tables. A few folks sell their wares straight from horse carts.

A corner of the Zielony (Green) Market as viewed from Zielona Street. This modest wooden house, in front of which flower venders are displaying their inventory, was the headquarters of the Polish Society for Sobriety.

Based on captions related to similar photographs, this image has been identified as capturing an event in Washington, D.C., during which the legendary Jewish strongman Zishe Breitbart “used his teeth to pull a wagon with 50 persons on board.”