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At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the situation of factory workers was bleak. The low pay and grueling work, that was also done by children, caused the laborers to take to the streets. In the last years of the 19th century, workers protests…

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…

Aside from large-scale textile operations, Łódź was also home to numerous smaller firms. A group of men and two teenaged boys in work clothes stand lined up for a photo — these proud workers belong to one of the city's many small brick factories. A…

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…

This shot, taken somewhere in the southerly, industrial part of Łódź (in the vicinity of Górny Rynek), offers a panoramic view of the city's northwest region with its many smoking chimneys. In the distance one can make out the familiar shape of a…

At the lefthand edge of this photo, taken at the junction of Sienkiewicz and Tuwim Streets, we can glimpse a section of the enclosure around Church of the Holy Cross. A high wooden-plank fence on the other side of the church shields our view of…