Ivano-Frankivsk Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/ivano-frankivsk/ 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 Ivano-Frankivsk Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/ivano-frankivsk/ 32 32 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 Historical Manhole Covers and Storm Drains in Ivano-Frankivsk https://forgottengalicia.com/historical-manhole-covers-and-storm-drains-in-ivano-frankivsk/ https://forgottengalicia.com/historical-manhole-covers-and-storm-drains-in-ivano-frankivsk/#respond Sun, 24 Feb 2019 10:28:14 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=665 Ivano-Frankivsk, formerly known as Stanisławów, was one of the largest cities in Galicia, and so it is no wonder that many relics of its prewar past can still be found in the urban landscape. In particular, quite a few manhole covers and storm drains still serve the city’s infrastructure.  From […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/historical-manhole-covers-and-storm-drains-in-ivano-frankivsk/feed/ 0 Photographs of the Lemberg-Czernowitz Railway (1868) https://forgottengalicia.com/photographs-of-the-lemberg-czernowitz-railway-1868/ https://forgottengalicia.com/photographs-of-the-lemberg-czernowitz-railway-1868/#respond Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:44:30 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=2947 The railway first came to Lviv (Lemberg) in 1861, connecting the city to Przemyśl as part of the connection from Krakow. In 1866 a railway was built connecting Lviv to Chernivtsi (Czernowitz). As a result, the capitals of two Austro-Hungarian crownlands Galicia and Bukovina were connected not only to each other, […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/photographs-of-the-lemberg-czernowitz-railway-1868/feed/ 0 Hand-Painted Signs in Ivano-Frankivsk https://forgottengalicia.com/hand-painted-signs-ivano-frankivsk/ https://forgottengalicia.com/hand-painted-signs-ivano-frankivsk/#respond Sat, 10 Aug 2013 08:28:42 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1198 Modern hand-painted signs in Ivano-Frankivsk:

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/hand-painted-signs-ivano-frankivsk/feed/ 0 Ghost Signs in Ivano-Frankivsk https://forgottengalicia.com/ghost-signs-ivano-frankivsk/ https://forgottengalicia.com/ghost-signs-ivano-frankivsk/#respond Tue, 06 Aug 2013 18:30:50 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=342 Ivano-Frankivsk, formerly Stanisławów or Stanislaviv, is a small historic city about 2.5 hours south-east of Lviv, located at the foothills of the Carpathians. It was built in the mid-17th century as a private fortress. Along with Lviv, in 1772 it became part of the Austrian Empire, then part of the […]

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