[KRAKOW - STARZEWSCY of Krakow - a set of photographs and documents related to the family]. [years from late 19th century to 1939].

[KRAKOW - STARZEWSCY of Krakow - a set of photographs and documents related to the family]. [years from the end of the 19th century to 1939].
The photographs encapsulate the memories and life history of the distinguished family living at 10 Slawkowska St. The set also includes family photographs of Henryk Ostoja-Ściborowski and family and situational photographs of Roman Czermak (both associated with 10 Slawkowska St.).
The set includes:
* 3 albums with photographs from treatment, vacation trips, including Davos, Zakopane. More than 210 photos glued on album cards, form ca 6x8 cm to 9x12 cm.
* 2 photographs of the painting "Sejmik" by Roman Szwojnicki [the title of the painting created in 1884 is "Kaptowanie szlachty przed sejmikiem"], with handwritten notes on the back by Wanda Starzewska's hand: "'Sejmik' by Roman Szwojnicki, a student of Matejko, this painting painted in 1884 - was at an exhibition in America and Chicago and was awarded [a gold medal] and bought by --- a well-known collector of paintings [Mr. Jasinski] and brought to Poland. Reproduced in Kłosy in 1885 or 86. Dimension 250 x 175 in a gold carved frame very nice - oil painting in beautiful colors". And a more contemporary note: "In 1950-60 donated by Wanda Starzewska to the National Museum in Krakow. In the 1970s it hung in the office of the Head of the Law Department in the Cracow City Hall pl. Wiosny Ludów. Cz[ermak]"
* nearly 200 photographs in an envelope with a handwritten inscription: "Starzewski family, Tadeusz Helena daughter Maria, Jan, Maciej. Magdalena Samozwaniec wife of Jan Starzewski". The photographs include portrait shots, posed shots, group shots, situational shots (in interiors, from trips, excursions, work, resting, laying a mound in Sowiniec, wedding shots), pictures of friends. Form. ca. 9x6 cm, up to 20x13 cm, taken privately or in ateliers, including Kuczynski, J. Sebald, J. Mien - in Krakow, Adel in Lvov, St. Stadler in Tarnów
* nearly 50 photographs in an envelope with a handwritten inscription: "Photographs of Henryk Ostoja Sciborowski, his wife Janina née Królik and photographs of the family of H. Ostoja-Sciborowski". Attached is a visiting ticket with the inscription: "Henryk Ostoja Śbiborowski". Visiting format photos taken in atelier, among others: L. Majewski in Tarnow, J. Mien in Krakow, B. Henner and St. Stadler in Krakow, F. Kryjak in Krakow, S. Bleiwess in Tarnow, E. Trzemeski in Lvov, A. Szubert in Krakow, W. Rzewuski in Krakow, T. Mroczkowski in Tarnow, T. Jablonski in Krakow.
* over 120 photographs in an envelope without identifying inscription. The photos include shots of Roman Czermak, his military days, during meetings, trips, many photos of family and friends. Included, among others: "An honorary pass for the entire winter season" in Zakopane issued by the Union of Friends of Zakopane
* An occasional brochure "In memory of Tadeusz Starzewski". Cracow 1931, druk. "Czas", 8, pp. 34, [1], plate 2, includes memoirs about the doctor written by Stanislaw Estreicher, Adam Heydl, Zygmunt Nowakowski, Stanislaw Rostworowski, Konstanty Srokowski, Fryderyk Zoll
* 18 original filled-in receipts of payment blanks made by Dr. Tadeusz Starzewski to the Krakow Agricultural and Industrial Company in Krakow in the period from 11 XI 1925 to 28 XI 1930
* 1 promissory note and 5 acknowledgments of promissory note from the Joint Stock Company "Polska Barwa" Fabryka Farb. S.A. in Cracow issued to Dr. Tadeusz Starzewski between 12 III 1929 and 21 I 1931; bill of exchange dated. 11 VI 1930
* 4 bill of exchange confirmations with correspondence from "A. Piasecki S.A. Chocolate Factory" in Cracow for Dr. Roman Starzewski, dated. 15 XI 1926 (this one for his father Tadeusz), 5 II 1935, 9 III 1942, 7 V 1943
* 1 card with handwritten notes regarding financial obligations.
* poems in typescript copies on 50 pages stapled with ribbon in the spine. On texts in places handwritten notes and corrections in pencil. Example titles of poems: "Co ja z siebie ostawię wam", "Hymn to St. Francis of Assisi", "Na moje oczy, na me oczy...", "Evening Hour", "Ballad of an unknown soul", "Letter not sent", "Hallucination", "Return". Under some poems dates - 1913 or 1914. A typescript copy of the poem is attached: "To Bader on the road to Warsaw".
* folder with reproductions of paintings by Polish and foreign authors.
* pencil portrait of a young woman. Drawing form. 29.5x20.8 cm, glued to cardboard backing. On the lower margin of the composition, not very legible date "30 I 39". Work removed from oval frame.
Objects mostly in good state of preservation. See also items below from the same collection.
Tadeusz Józef Ostoja-Starzewski (born February 7, 1860 in Barycz, died February 10, 1931 in Cracow) - Polish notary, doctor of laws, president of the Chamber of Notaries in Cracow, head of the Treasury Department of the Supreme National Committee, collector (Wikipedia). Interesting information about Tadeusz Starzewski, his passion, work and family can be found in Dorota Malec's extensive article "Z dziejów polskiego notariatu. Krakow politician and notary Tadeusz Starzewski (1860-1931)" published in the
"Rejent" magazine, r. 12, no. 12 (140) of December 2002 - https://u227.e-cryptex.pl/app/appStowarzyszenieS/publikacje/2002/12/3478.pdf
Maciej Jan Adolf St arzewski coat-of-arms Ostoja (born June 17, 1891 in Cracow, died December 4, 1944 there) - lawyer, professor at Jagiellonian University, member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Wikipedia).
Jan Michał Polikarp Starzewski (born January 26, 1895 in Wadowice, died January 25, 1973 in London) - Polish diplomat, emigration activist, and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1972-1973) of the Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile (Wikipedia).
Henryk Ostoja Ściborowski (born ? - died October 11, 1946) - long-time head of department in the Tax Office. Husband of Janina née Królik sister of Lucyna Czermakowa. Painter - amateur, mainly a copyist, but also painted his own compositions (still life - mainly floral compositions). He was friends with, among others, Julian Fałat, who was a frequent visitor to their home (they lived at 8 Jabłonowskich Street) and who highly valued his painting technique. He also knew Jacek Malczewski and most likely commissioned Tadeusz Starzewski to make the copies of the paintings presented below (biography courtesy of the family).
Roman Czermak (1899-1965) - defender of Lviv, decorated with the Order of Eaglets of Lviv. Before World War 2, he lived in Katowice and worked as an advertising executive at the Kollontay Soap Factory. He was also active before and after the war in the Automobile Club of Krakow (biography courtesy of his family).
* Below is an excerpt from Zygmunt Nowakowski's text titled. "Serce na Legjony", published in a brochure in memory of Tadeusz Starzewski (1931), reflecting the atmosphere and spirit of the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Starzewski, from which the presented objects come - "And old Mr. Starzewski put his heart. My goodness, one can say, and the heart is sometimes an unnecessary treat.... A phantom that you don't know what to do with.... Yes, but not this heart. It was all made of gold. And then it was still healthy, strong !...
So this sincere gold heart gave Mr. Starzewski to the Legions whole, without rest. He did not keep anything for himself anymore. He only rejoiced and rejoiced that here was a living army growing before his eyes. For he had so far loved himself in an army that was no longer there. And of which he had full walls.
I knew this beautiful house from the old, old days. Someone's junior high school class.... Ages ! But to this day I can tell by heart on which wall hangs a beautiful, rare engraving, depicting Sowinski at Wola.... Where again is Napoleon at Waterloo, and where is Prince Joseph on the Elste.... Orłowski or old Norblin, Kossak Juljusz or Wojciech, the thirtieth year or the sixty-third.... Well, and Napoleon, Napoleon and more Napoleon.... Because the Polish army and Napoleon were the great passion and passion of old Mr. Starzewski. I remember that beautiful silhouette, cut as if from Grotger.... I can still see him today, as he walks around the large living room, making an overview of this immobile army.... Sometimes he will stop and correct some Napoleon that was hanging crookedly....
Among the beautiful empires and Louis Philippe, among the tapestries and bronzes on the mantelpiece, from above the piano, in a word, from every corner looked this army dead, and yet looking straight into the eyes of everyone who stopped by a particular painting or engraving. Our entire post-partition past lived in these paintings. For the house of Mr. and Mrs. Starzewski was also an arch-Polish house.
Well, and then came the Great War. I visited then rarely, but always a few times a year on Slawkowska Street. The picture gallery changed. From being a museum, it went from being dead to being alive. Whole walls bloomed from Beliniac chakas or from the uniforms of the Carpathian infantry, the second brigade. All formations and all pools. The cavalry and artillery.... Even the tabor, even the ordinands.... And most importantly: all the chiefs!.... Because Mr. Starzewski did not classify, did not divide, did not differentiate - he loved!... So it all fit and reconciled within these bright, wide walls and filled this beautiful house to the brim."....