EditorialThe saltmines of Wieliczka near Cracow produced roughly one third of the Polish kings' income. With its enormous machinery made of huge timbers, the mine was an early tourist attraction-even poet Goethe went down the shafts. A winch-and pully system.
EditorialCracow's main square, the " Rynek Glowny" with the famous Renaissance textile market, the " Sukiennice", built by Italian architect Giovanni Maria Padovano, 1556-1559. Textile merchants offered their wares in the shops inside the el...
EditorialSaint Mary's altar, Cracow. " Workday-side" with wings closed and a second set of side panels. Joachim and Anna, birth of Saint Mary, life of Christ and passion. 1477-1489.
EditorialA boy's Bar Mitzvah in Cracow; in 1956, the city had three synagogues, but no rabbi. A minian of ten Jewish citizens performs the ceremony in a prayer room of the Jewish Community in Cracow, Poland,1956.
EditorialNova Huta steelmill near Cracow was Communist Poland's industrial flagship and pride. A group of workers sitting near the Martin steel plant, built by Communist East Germany. Nova Huta, 1956.
EditorialA boy's Bar Mitzvah in Cracow; in 1956, the city had three synagogues, but no rabbi. A minian (the prescribed number) of Jewish citizens perform the ceremony in a prayer room of the Jewish Community. Cracow,1956.
EditorialPOLAND. Wawel castle. Built in the fifteenth century by Casimir III the Great and reconstructed by Sigismund the Elder between 1502 and 1536 after its destruction in a fire in 1499. Details of the inner court erected by F. DELLA LORA in 1516 in Italian...
EditorialPOLAND. Wawel castle. Built in the fifteenth century by Casimir III the Great and reconstructed by Sigismund the Elder between 1502 and 1536 after its destruction in a fire in 1499. Details of the inner court erected by F. DELLA LORA in 1516 in Italian...
EditorialPOLAND. Wawel castle. Built in the fifteenth century by Casimir III the Great and reconstructed by Sigismund the Elder between 1502 and 1536 after its destruction in a fire in 1499. Details of the inner court erected by F. DELLA LORA in 1516 in Italian...
EditorialPOLAND. Wawel castle. Built in the fifteenth century by Casimir III the Great and reconstructed by Sigismund the Elder between 1502 and 1536 after its destruction in a fire in 1499. Details of the inner court erected by F. DELLA LORA in 1516 in Italian...