Urban Image Database
The Urban Image Database brings together visual representations on printed images (photographs, postcards, lithographs, etc.), collecting visual information on the history of the towns and cities of East Central Europe and working with public and private archives.
Feature item
The Adam Mickiewicz Monument in Winter
City: Lviv
Date: 1914
This picture by one of the most famous photographers of Lviv, Henryk Mikoljash, shows the appearance of the monument during the winter of 1914. A professional art photographer, Henryk Mikoljash successfully recreated the atmosphere of a typical, cloudy winter’s day. The technique used in the picture – rubber, was popular until 1914 and was fruitfully used by H. Mikoljash. On the left is stone building No. 8 in a state of deconstruction, soon to be replaced by Lviv’s "scraper", the stone building of Jonah Sprecher which the architect Ferdinand Kassler built after World War I. On the right is a piece of building No. 9. In the background are the Latin Cathedral and City Hall towers.
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