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Auction 50 · Lot 368

(Piotrków).

Estimate
$3,000–$5,000
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

Place

Piotrków (Russian Poland), 1914-1916

Description

Album containing 48 original black-and-white photographs taken by an officer of the Photographic Section of the 100th Austro-Hungarian Infantry Regiment. Housed in original album, with neatly-written captions below each image

summary

Images of the town of Piotrków, featuring assorted street-scenes. Includes The Great Synagogue on Jerozolimska Street (built 1791-93) as well as the town’s Jewish Cemetery. Three decades after these photographs were taken, the Nazis entirely destroyed all Jewish life in Piotrków.
Photographs, 13. 5 x 8. 5 cm.
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