Polish Collection

Polish cavalry at the start of World War Two
Poland as a military power: cavalry, tanks and infantry (part of a spread in the Illustrated London News). Polands impressive horse cavalry are seen here, probably the best in Europe (the ILN says)

Cub Scouts taking part in Operation Shoeshine
Two Cub Scouts taking part in Operation Shoeshine, a seven-day campaign during Scout Job Week. Their first customer was an actress, Caroline Munro

Felix Dzerzhinsky
FELIX DZERZHINSKY Polish/Russian agitator, banished to Siberia, exiled for part in 1905 rising, returned 1917, head of secret police (Cheka) etc

Frederic Chopin / Etude
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his C minor Etude

Frederic Chopin / Nocturne
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his Nocturne opus 9 number 2 Date: 1810 - 1849

Rosa Luxemburg - 1
ROSA LUXEMBURG German Socialist agitator, helped found the Polish Social Democratic Party

Polish anti-war poster -- Nie
Polish anti-war poster of a ruined city in the silhouette of a falling bomb, with the single word Nie (No)

Lithuania / Vilnius 20C
Vilnius (Polish " Wilno", Russian " Vilna" or " Vilno", German " Wilna" ), now the commercial capital of Lithuania: a church in the snow

Chopin / Polish Postcard
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish composer

Marie Curie / Photograph
MARIE CURIE Polish scientist

Polish poster for a film, The Warsaw Mermaid, directed by Tadeusz Makarczynski, based on a local legend. 1956

Frederic Chopin / Preludes
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his preludes

WW2 Poster -- Formation Signs
Formation signs, dated 8 May 1945. Chromolithograph poster, showing various formation signs of infantry and armoured divisions, brigades, groups, including Airborne TPS, GHQ Liaison Regiment

Marie Curie - Nobel Prize-winning Polish Scientist
Marie Curie (1867-1934) - Polish Scientist, twice the recipient of the Nobel Prize for her pioneering research on radioactivity, the first woman Nobel winner. Date: 1911

Clematis viticella, Polish spirit
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33

Siege of Vienna by Turks (1683). Battle of Kahlenberg, in which the European army, under the command of Polish king Jan Sobiesky, defeated the Ottomans. Oil on canvas. AUSTRIA. Vienna

Mieczyslaw Pianowski, Polish ballet dancer
Mieczyslaw Pianowski (c1891-1967), Polish ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer. circa 1920s

Cub Scout washing a window, Scout Job Week
A Cub Scout washing a window which displays a poster advertising Scout Job Week. 1970s

Kaiser Wilhelm II presenting medals, Warsaw, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Emperor, presenting Iron Crosses to troops in Warsaw, Poland, soon after the city was captured by the Austro-German Army during the First World War

Countess Potocka
Engraving after a portrait of Countess Potocka by Angelica Kauffman reproduced in The Illustrated London News. CLAUDINE POTOCKA (nee Dzalynska) Polish patriot

Chopin [Anon]
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician

Women from Lublin, Poland
Village peasant women from Lublin, Poland Date: circa 1910s

Hand Manicure
A hand manicure. Nails are carefully clipped and a choice of stylish nail varnishes in little bottles is offered. Date: 1930s

Krakow, Poland - Renaissance Cloth Hall - Main Market Square
Krakow, Pland - The Renaissance Cloth Hall (Sukiennice) in the Main Market Square Date: 1906

Germany and Russia discuss the division of Poland, 1939
Russian Commander Borowenski bends over a map of Poland during discussions between German and Russian officers about the demarcation of the country following the invasion by Germany

Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist activist in Germany
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), Marxist activist in Germany. Date: early 20th century

Silesia Plebiscite
In Silesia, with a mixed German and Polish population, residents of Kattowitz/ Katowice await the results of the plebiscite which will divide the region

Pilsudski at Desk / 1919
JOZEF PILSUDSKI Polish General and Statesman Date: 1867 - 1935

SHOES 1899
A pair of gentlemens lace-up half-boots or Town Boots and a pair of ladies shoes with a Louis heel complete with shoe trees are left outside a hotel room for boots to polish

Jan III Sobieski
JOHN (JAN) III SOBIESKI king of Poland and military commander, who liberated Vienna when menaced by the Ottoman Turks. Polands greatest king

Mediumship / Marriott
WILLIAMs MARRIOTT EXPOSES Marriott simulates Polish medium Stanislawa Tomczyks levitation of a glass tumbler in full light

MALINOWSKI (1884-1942)
BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI Polish-born British anthropologist, in the Trobriand Islands 1914-18

Kazimirz Pulaski
Count KAZIMIERZ (Casimir) PULASKI Polish-American soldier

Dickens / Pickwick Papers
Sam Weller - Mr Pickwicks servant who councils his master with Cockney wisdom

Nail Polish Remover
A beautiful art nouveau label for Wlandres Venus nail polish remover, distributed by Wadanola Beauty Supply of Syracuse, New York

Street scene in Liegnitz (Legnica), Poland
Goldbergerstrasse and the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Liegnitz (Legnica), Poland

Fight for a Turkish Standard, c. 1905, by Jozef Brandt (1841
Jozef Brandt (1841-1915). Polish painter. Fight for a Turkish Standard, c.1905. National Museum. Krakow. Poland

Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, Polish statesman
Marshal Jozef Klemens Pilsudski (1867-1935), Polish statesman in various roles from 1918 until his death. Date: circa 1914-1918

Jan Kiepura Film Poster
The artwork for a Film staring Jan Kiepura, the Polish singer (tenor) and actor

Frederic Chopin / Deathbed
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician on his deathbed

Poet and discus thrower, Mlle. H. Konopacka
Halina Konopacka (1900 - 1989), famous athlete and the first Polish Olympic Champion (1928, Amsterdam). She took part in the Olympic Games in Amsterdam, where she won a gold medal in discus throw

Black Hamburgh cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus, Rev. W. Sergeantsons pair, first prize at Birmingham, Edinburgh, Manchester 1871, and Bristol 1872

Nicolaus Copernicus (14731543) Astronomer. Orbes Celeste
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated an heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center

Peter Wysocki
PETER WYSOCKI Polish patriot, fought the Russians, captured and exiled to Sibera in 1831 until he was pardoned by the Tsar. Date: 1799 - 1875

Thessaloniki, Greece - Bootblack Date: circa 1916

Cub Scouts cleaning fire engine

French & Polish Lancers
French and Polish lancers on horseback

Advert / Enameline Polish
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