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Wolborska Street was among the most important streets in the city's Jewish district. It was on Wolborska that the city's first wooden synagogue was built in the mid-19th c. (sometime in the 1860s). This photograph features a view of the street…

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.