[ZAKOPANE]. Album with photographs of Zakopane and the surrounding area from the 1930s. Album size 21x28 cm, pp. 18 (89 photographs). Paperback binding.
Binding rubbed and stained, photos depict tourists in Zakopane and surroundings, Morskie Oko, cable car to Kasprowy Wierch, ski competitions, ski jump, Zakopane bear riding a horse and others. Several photos depicting Morskie Oko show the visible dates 1930, 1931. Noteworthy is the photo of the gondola of the "Star of Poland" balloon placed on the car trailer, the largest traditional reusable stratospheric balloon in the world at the time, which was designed and built in Poland in 1938 by WBS in Legionowo. The balloon was scheduled to take off in October 1938 in the Chocholowska Valley. The photograph shows a handwritten note dated September 20, 1938.
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