JEZIOROWSKI Waclaw - Album of the Powazki Cemetery. Part I. Warsaw 1915

Author: JEZIOROWSKI Wacław

Title: Powązki Album. Part I. (no more published)

• Place of issue: Warsaw
• Year of publication: 1915
• Publisher: Zakłady Graficzne B. Wierzbicki and S-ka in Warsaw
• Number of pages: 140, [4]
• Illustrations, maps: numerous illustrations/photos in the text
• Size: 31 cm
• Binding: publisher's soft cover
• Condition: front cover loose, block in several parts, stamp "Bibl. Truszkowski"

Description:

In Contents: Introductory word, Powązki Cemetery, Biographies, Tomb of the Five Fallen, Neglected graves, Graves of former Polish military, Abecadal list, Catacombs, Plan of Powązki Cemetery, Bell tower.

Rich iconographic material for the history of the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw. The album contains numerous images of graves and lists of the deceased, now much altered or non-existent. rare! (W. Łysiak, Empireum...,T.1, p.311).

" We began to develop the "Album of the Powazkists" in 1913 we finished printing d. August 5, 1915, at the time when the German army entered Warsaw. Our work was accompanied by the roar of cannons and adversity, resulting from the causes of the war time."

Artistic photographic images were taken by W. Sarjusz-Wolski, Włodzimierz Kirchmer, Antoni Dębno-Krzyżanowski, Andrzej Stołągiewicz, Teofil Truszkowski, Jan Miszczak, W. Sztyblewski, Jan Cyganski, W. Grodzicki, Nofok-Sowiński, Bronisław Karyłowski, Wacław Trzciński.

"Our task was to photograph the separate monuments, not the Powązki sights."