Forgotten Galicia - Postcards & Photographs Archives https://forgottengalicia.com/category/history/postcards_photographs/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:33:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png Forgotten Galicia - Postcards & Photographs Archives https://forgottengalicia.com/category/history/postcards_photographs/ 32 32 Lviv at the Turn of the Century as Depicted through the Watercolors of Alfred Kamienobrodzki https://forgottengalicia.com/lviv-at-the-turn-of-the-century-as-depicted-through-the-watercolors-of-alfred-kamienobrodzki/ https://forgottengalicia.com/lviv-at-the-turn-of-the-century-as-depicted-through-the-watercolors-of-alfred-kamienobrodzki/#respond Sun, 03 Mar 2024 09:30:16 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=51273 Discover Lviv (Lemberg / Lwów) at the turn of the 19th-20th century through the watercolors of Alfred Kamienobrodzki (1844-1922), a talented architect and painter. His art beautifully captures the city’s architecture and landscapes, providing a nostalgic glimpse of Lviv’s past. Some of his watercolors can be found in the Historical […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/lviv-at-the-turn-of-the-century-as-depicted-through-the-watercolors-of-alfred-kamienobrodzki/feed/ 0 From Countryside to City: The Evolution of Ukrainian Urban Folk Fashion in Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/from-countryside-to-city-the-evolution-of-ukrainian-urban-folk-fashion-in-galicia/ https://forgottengalicia.com/from-countryside-to-city-the-evolution-of-ukrainian-urban-folk-fashion-in-galicia/#comments Thu, 24 Aug 2023 07:59:09 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=49460 Ukraine boasts an ancient and rich tradition of embroidery. Folk embroidery was deeply symbolic and connected with a great number of beliefs, myths, and superstitions. At the heart of this tradition was the shirt, known as the vyshyta sorochka or vyshyvanka. For centuries, Ukrainian embroidery was confined to the rural […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/from-countryside-to-city-the-evolution-of-ukrainian-urban-folk-fashion-in-galicia/feed/ 1 The Halychyna Town Costume: Modern Folk Attire for Galician Urban Folk https://forgottengalicia.com/the-halychyna-town-costume-modern-folk-attire-for-galician-urban-folk/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-halychyna-town-costume-modern-folk-attire-for-galician-urban-folk/#respond Sat, 19 Aug 2023 12:53:05 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=50860 Following the dissolution of the Austrian Empire at the end of World War I, Galicia became a part of Poland, which exerted pressure on Ukrainian cultural identity. In response, a wave of Ukrainian national consciousness emerged among the middle class and urban populations. While desiring to express their Ukrainian heritage, […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/the-halychyna-town-costume-modern-folk-attire-for-galician-urban-folk/feed/ 0 Lederer & Popper Photomontage Postcards of Galicia and Beyond https://forgottengalicia.com/lederer-popper-montage-postcards-of-galicia-and-beyond/ https://forgottengalicia.com/lederer-popper-montage-postcards-of-galicia-and-beyond/#comments Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:26:29 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=2665 I love looking at old photographs of Galician cities and towns, especially postcards with city views. A real treat among these are photomontages — postcard collages. I first came across montage postcards depicting Lviv and was particularly struck by the one with a woman who had fallen from her bicycle. […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/lederer-popper-montage-postcards-of-galicia-and-beyond/feed/ 1 A Look at 1920s Galicia: Photographs of Daily Life in the Countryside https://forgottengalicia.com/a-look-at-1920s-galicia-photographs-of-daily-life-in-the-countryside/ https://forgottengalicia.com/a-look-at-1920s-galicia-photographs-of-daily-life-in-the-countryside/#comments Sat, 11 Dec 2021 12:04:54 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=49315 Below is a collection of photographs that depict daily life in the Galician countryside in the 1920s. The photographs were found on eBay by German collector Wolfgang Wiggers, who subsequently published them on his Flickr page. At the time the photographs were taken, Galicia was part of interwar Poland. All […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/a-look-at-1920s-galicia-photographs-of-daily-life-in-the-countryside/feed/ 10 Kosiv: Former Center of Natural Medicine and Vegetarianism https://forgottengalicia.com/kosiv-former-center-of-natural-medicine-and-vegetarianism/ https://forgottengalicia.com/kosiv-former-center-of-natural-medicine-and-vegetarianism/#respond Sat, 19 Sep 2020 11:46:52 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=10013 Back during Austrian times and up until World War II, the Carpathian Hutsul town of Kosiv (formerly Kosów) was a center of natural medicine and vegetarianism. This is thanks to Dr. Apolinary Tarnawski (1851-1943), a Polish physician who at the end of the nineteenth century founded a private sanatorium in […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/kosiv-former-center-of-natural-medicine-and-vegetarianism/feed/ 0 Photographs of Prewar Lviv: Ukrainian Signage https://forgottengalicia.com/photographs-of-prewar-lviv-ukrainian-signage/ https://forgottengalicia.com/photographs-of-prewar-lviv-ukrainian-signage/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2020 09:58:10 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1437 In Lviv, according to the Austrian census of 1910, 51% of the city’s population was Polish Roman Catholic, 28% Jewish, and 19% Ukrainian Greek Catholic. Linguistically, 86% of the city’s population used the Polish language while 11% used Ukrainian (Lviv). Looking at these statistics, it’s no surprise that the Ukrainian language was […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/photographs-of-prewar-lviv-ukrainian-signage/feed/ 1 Galicia’s Sokolnie: The Architectural Heritage of the Polish Sokół Society https://forgottengalicia.com/galicias-sokolnie-the-architectural-heritage-of-the-polish-sokol-society/ https://forgottengalicia.com/galicias-sokolnie-the-architectural-heritage-of-the-polish-sokol-society/#respond Sat, 08 Aug 2020 10:12:00 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=9602 The former buildings of the Sokół Polish Gymnastic Society stand today in the center of almost every Galician town on both sides of the Polish-Ukrainian border. Serving as sports and cultural centers, these were once significant buildings in the town space and often outstanding architectural masterpieces. Although today few of […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/galicias-sokolnie-the-architectural-heritage-of-the-polish-sokol-society/feed/ 0 Lviv’s First Tram Depot https://forgottengalicia.com/lvivs-first-tram-depot/ https://forgottengalicia.com/lvivs-first-tram-depot/#respond Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:11:19 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=8509 The first electric tramline in Lviv was built ahead of the General Regional Exhibition of 1894 to bring visitors from the main railway station to the site of the exhibition. To power the line, the first municipal electric station of direct current (DC) was also built, and to house the […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/lvivs-first-tram-depot/feed/ 0 Austrian Military Barracks in Lviv – Part II https://forgottengalicia.com/austrian-military-barracks-in-lviv-part-ii/ https://forgottengalicia.com/austrian-military-barracks-in-lviv-part-ii/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:08:17 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=7902 From the End of Nineteenth Century to WWI When Galicia came under the rule of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1772, no specially built barracks or barracks complexes existed in Lviv. At first, the Austrian military used the premises of Lviv’s monasteries for magazines (ammunition storehouses) and barracks (Ger: Kaserne/Caserne; Polish: koszary; Ukr: касарні, казарми, кошари). […]

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