[KRAKOW and its surroundings, scientific and holiday expeditions in the lens of Franciszek Goc - situational and view photographs]. [l....

[KRAKOW and its surroundings, scientific and holiday expeditions in the lens of Franciszek Goc - situational and view photographs]. [l. 1920s]. Set of 7 photographs form. ca 12x17 cm and 160 form. 8x11 cm, 8.5x5.5 cm, 6x8 cm by, among others, Franciszek Goc.
Album form. ca. 22x32 cm, pages 20, spine tied with string. Photographs glued on both sides of album pages. Most of them described on the lower margins, handwritten by the photographer, e.g.: "Album front cover missing, otherwise good condition. The first 7 shots are aerial photographs - signed: "Downtown Krakow, Market Square of Krakow, Runes of Tenczynku Castle, Podgórze and Krakow, Wawel, Kosciuszko Mound". Others are shots from work, courses, holiday trips, private - signed, among others: "30.IV.1923. IV Machine Building Course", "Wola Justowska", "Mine 'Pilsudski' IV. Machine Building Course. 4.V.1923", "Dinner at Azot", "Huta Królewska", "Straconka 9/VIII 1925", "Biała-Leszczyny (P.T.A.) 10/VIII 1925", "Gdynia" "Puck", "Radun Lakes (Pomerania) 1925", "Mikuszowice Fabr. Brüll cloth 10/VIII 1925", "View of Łysa Góra and Magórka 9/VIII 1925", "At the top of Magóra 2/V 1926", "At the top of Klimczak 2/V 1926", "At the top of Barania Góra 1214 m 24/V 1926", "At the top of Stożek 975 m 23/V 1926", "Szczyrk 25/VII 1926", "Buczkowice 25/VII 1926", "Biala (on the forester's lodge) 29/VIII 1926", "On Bald Mountain 3/X 1926", "Biala Circular Run 19/IX 1926", "Cracow", "Odon", "Czerna", "Porabka July 1927", "From a Trip to Babia Gora'. 15/VIII 1927".
F. Goc (1893-1988) - studied at the Jagiellonian University from 1915-1919 and received a diploma in agricultural engineering. From 1920 he worked in the Department of Horticulture at the Jagiellonian University. In 1934 he received a doctorate in agriculture from the Faculty of Agriculture at Jagiellonian University on the basis of a dissertation entitled. "Variability of Forms and Anomalies in Primula obconica Hance," while he received the title of associate professor in 1955 on the basis of a monographic study entitled. "Cultivation of hazel trees." After the war he worked in Wroclaw, being, among other things, head of the Department of Horticulture at the Higher School of Agriculture in 1945-1948 and 1953-1963. He was the author of studies on horticulture, popularizer of knowledge in this subject, organizer and lecturer of courses and training for growers both, in the interwar and postwar years.