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A young girl wearing a chequered dress proudly holds up an oversized bottle of milk. Buildings from one of Łódź's poor districts are visible in the background.

Tired, overworked women with small children stand in line at a "Drop of Milk" station in an impoverished Łódź courtyard. Each woman has come with an empty vessel for receiving milk. All are shabbily dressed. Their square woolen worker's shawls (such…

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…

The first home for children endangered by tuberculosis was set up in Tuszynek in 1927. The home boasted six sleeping wards and a large dining area (pictured here). In the photo, several dozen girls being treated at the facility sit around a large…

At the Institute for Physical Therapy children were exposed to light treatments using UV lamps. Here eight young patients stand in a circle, their bare chests illuminated. Three large specialized lamps provide the source of light. The children are…

Small children are resting or (in most cases) sleeping on the deck chairs filling this large room. The present photo was taken at nap time inside the Seventh Municipal Preschool. The new two-building structure built by the Łódź City Council in 1927…

In the interwar years, those overseeing the welfare of children and youths made it a priority to provide them with recreational activities during the summer. Each year, a relatively small number of children—mainly those under special care of the…

Those running the summer camps were committed to round-the-clock comprehensive child care. Here, at a camp located in Rabka, we are offered a view of the clinic, where a nurse is busy taking care of young patients.

Children were assured consistent, high-quality nutrition for the duration of their stay at the summer camps. In this photograph, children are gathered at lunchtime in the dining hall at a camp located in Rabka.

At the center of this postcard photo featuring Sienkiewicz Park stands a fountain in the shape of a swan surrounded by cherubs. It is encircled by a flowerbed in full bloom. People enjoying the park stroll about or rest on benches, conversing and…