[DASZYŃSKI Ignacy - portrait photograph - shot in card de visite format]. [2nd half of the 19th century]. Photograph form. 8,...

[DASZYŃSKI Ignacy - portrait photograph - shot in card de visite format]. [2nd half of the 19th century]. Photograph form. 8.6x5.3 cm on original backing form. 9.9x6.1 cm.
Portrayed person shown in bust. In the lower part of the composition the inscription: "Jgnacy Daszyński". Photo glued on original cardboard backing with red border. Local stains and abrasions on the reverse.
I. Daszyński, pseud. "Daszek", "Żegota", "Ignis" (1866-1936) - Polish socialist politician, co-founder and leader of the Polish Social-Democratic Party (1890-1919), member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Preliterate Council of State (1897-1918), independence activist, Prime Minister of the Lublin Government (1918), deputy prime minister in the Government of National Defense (1920-1921), long-time member and chairman of the Supreme Council of the Polish Socialist Party, initiator and chairman of the Board of the Workers' University Society (1923-1936), Speaker of the Sejm (1928-1930), one of the founders of the Centrolew (1929), honorary chairman of the PPS (1934); publicist, political writer; posthumously awarded the Order of the White Eagle. (Wikipedia).