Polish Collection (page 8)

Advert, Stephensons Floor Polish and Furniture Cream
Advert, Stephensons Non-Smear Floor Polish and Furniture Cream

German graves in college garden, Lyck, Poland
German artillery and infantry graves in the college garden at Lyck (Elk, Lek, Leg), now in Masuria, Poland. 1914-1918

Jean de Reszke, Polish operatic tenor
Caricature, Jean de Reszke, Polish operatic tenor. 1893

Advert, polishing and plating supplies, New York City, USA
Advert, Zucker & Levett & Loeb Co, polishing and plating supplies, West 25th Street, New York City, USA. Date: circa 1880s

Gala Performance at the Met, New York - Josef Hofmann
Golden Jubilee Gala Performance at the Met, New York by Josef Hofmann (1876-1957) - Polish American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor

Shoeshine man in a Central London street, ready and waiting with his brushes on display. Date: 1922

Frontispiece design, For Victory Paint Book, WW2
Frontispiece design, For Victory Paint Book, with the coats of arms of Allied countries during the Second World War -- Do Not Despair, written by Winston Churchill. Date: 1940s

Evening on the pier at Swinemunde
Women cyclists enjoying a quiet evening on the pier at Swinemunde (Swinoujscie), a port on the Baltic Sea, north-west Poland, near the border with Germany. circa late 19th century

Shoeshiner 1867
What a polish! The youngsters were astonished! The gentlemen delighted! Date: 1867

Advert for Strathpeffer Spa in Scotland, 1909
Page of The Tatler, 1909, featuring adverts for Strathpeffer Spa in the Highlands of Scotland for Peace, Health and Beauty, and Nugget boot polish. Date: 1909

Solidarity campaign: barbed wire hammer & sickle
Polish Solidarity Campaign pamphlet cover illustration: Solidarity underground : free trade unionism in Poland today by Magda Zalewska, Henryk Gawinski, John Taylor, 1983 Date: 1983

Advertising Insert - Monkey Brand Polish. 1914

Polish poster for a film, Wraki (Wrecks), directed by Ewa Petelska and Czeslaw Petelski. circa 1956

Polish poster for a film, The Mystery of Eternal Night. 1955

Polish soldiers crossing a river while towing a Jeep in bad weather on the Western Front during World War II. The Allied forces had to not only deal with the enemy but also the cold and the snow

Marszalkowska Street, Warsaw, Poland
circa 1910s

International Exhibition of Decorative Arts - Paris. The Polish Republic Pavilion - designed by Joseph Czajkowsky. Date: 1925

Bialystok, Poland - The Palace Theatre
The Palace Theatre, ul. Niemiecka, Bialystok, northeastern Poland. The capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Located in the Bialystok Uplands Date: circa 1910s

Masthead of The Sketch, October 1914
Masthead showing British Marine watching a distant German Cavalry Patrol on a Belgian Road. And also four adverts for; Ronuk Sanitary Polish, Shoolbreds bedsteads, bedding, and quilts

Germany. Berlin. Jewish Museum, built in 1999
Germany. Berlin. Jewish Museum Berlin. Built in 1999 by American architect of Jewish origin, born in Poland, Daniel Libeskind (1946). Interior

Advertisement for Cherry Blossom boot polish
A cutout advertisement for Cherry Blossom boot polish, which is waterproof and preserves the leather. Date: late 19th century

Advert for Wrens shoe polish 1908
Wrens shoe polish. Date: 1908

Shoe-Black Brigade 1851
The Shoe-Black Brigade were an offshoot of the Ragged School system. Date: 1851

EMILIE LEHMANN Polish patriot and feminist who besides fighting for the liberty of Poland wrote valuable papers on the emancipation of women. Date: circa 1848

RING A ROSES 1930S
Little girls in traditional dress play Ring o Roses at a childrens village festival in Upper Silesia. Date: 1930s

RACIAL / POLISH JEW 1913
A Polish Jew Date: 1913

POLISH KOSSINIERI
Members of a patriotic secret society, the KOSSINIERI (literally, the scythers) swear to fight for the freedom of Poland against the hated Russians who rule them Date: 1 May 1821

CROCHETED ACCESSORIES
A woman looks in her bag, crocheted from red rust wool; her matching hat and scarf are also crocheted and look smart against her fawn tweed coat Date: 1930s

1920 / RED ARMY COSSACKS
Red Army Cossacks at Soldau, during fighting against Polish nationalists. Date: September 1920

POLISH GERMAN TREATY
Germany signs a 10 year nonaggression pact with Poland despite the Versailles snake that should have kept them apart - German land had been given to Poland in 1919. Date: 1934

COPERNICUS / SCRIVEN
MIKOLAI KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS) Polish astronomer Date: 1473 - 1543

SERVANTS CLEANING
Two servants find that their job of polishing furniture is made cleaner, faster and more economical thanks to BRILLANT FOREZIEN Date: circa 1900

POLISH LEGION 1810
Men of the LEGION POLONAISE, Regiment de la Vistule, serving alongside the French in Napoleons war with Russia, hated by the Poles Date: 1810

POLISH SHORT SKIRT
A Polish girl takes refuge in a Warsaw church when an indignant crowd attack her because her skirt is too short for decency Date: 1929

JOSEPH CONRAD Polish-born writer, in 1922 Date: 1857 - 1924

Stanislawa Tomczyk demonstrates psychokinesis
Stanislawa Tomczyk, Polish medium, demonstrates psychokinesis while under hypnosis, to Ochorowicz, at Wisla, Poland, raising small objects. Date: 1909

Polish Infantry
POLISH Infantry from the Vistule regiment - a fusilier and a grenadier

Municipal Theatre, Bromberg, Germany (Bydgoszcz, Poland)
Municipal Theatre, Bromberg, Germany (now Bydgoszcz, Poland). Date: circa 1900s

Shoe shine man in a shady spot - Houmt Souk, Djerba, Tunisia
A shoe shine man lies in a shady spot on the pavement in Houmt Souk, Djerba, Tunisia. Beside him are the tools of his trade - brushes and polish

Shoe shine in street, Lisbon
A shoe shine man cleans a customers shoes in a Lisbon street, Portugal. The male customer holds on to a traffic light as his shoes are polished. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Algeria - A Young Ouled Bootblack. Date: circa 1907

Elblag (Elbing), Poland - Statues outside Entrance Police HQ
Elblag (Elbing), Poland - Statues outside the Entrance the Police HQ. The city was transferred to Prussia after the first partition of Poland in 1772

Faustin Edmond Wirkus, King of La Gonave, Haiti
Faustin Edmond Wirkus (1896-1945), King of La Gonave, Haiti as Faustin II, ruling from 1926 to 1929. He had been a Polish-American US Marine stationed in Haiti during the US occupation

Jozef Marian Chelmonski (1849-1914). Herdsman, 1897
Jozef Marian Chelmonski (1849-1914). Polish painter. Herdsman, 1897. National Museum Gallery. Krakow, Poland

Jan Matejko (1838-1893). Kosciuszko in the Battle of Raclaw
Jan Matejko (1838-1893). Polish painter. Kosciuszko in the Battle of Raclawice, 1888. National Museum, Krakow. Poland

Portrait of Helena Modrzejewska, 1880, by Tadeusz Ajdukiewic
Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852-1916). Polish painter. Portrait of Helena Modrzejewska, 1880. National Museum. Krakow. Poland

Mother Denmark, 1851, by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1819-18
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1819-1881). Polish-Danish painter. Mother Denmark, 1851. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Lionel the Lion-faced Man
Stephan Bibrowski (18911932), better known as Lionel the Lion-faced Man, was a famous sideshow performer. His whole body was covered with long hair that gave him the appearance of a lion; this was

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