[MOUNTAINS - situational and view photographs]. [l. 1930s]. Set of 16 photographs form....

[MOUNTAINS - situational and view photographs]. [l. 1930s]. Set of 16 photographs ca. 12x17 cm, 13x12 cm on cardboard backings ca. 22x28 cm, by Franciszek Goc.
Photographs glued on cardboard backings, handwritten identifying descriptions under the photographs: "In the mountains, in the mountains...", "Surroundings of dol. Chocholowska", "Szałasy (dol. Chocholowska)", "High Tatras (Horwacki Upłaz, Garłuch", "Slopes of Kozie Wierch", "Shelter in Roztoka", "In Roztoka valley", "Western Tatras from Kościelec", "Twilight", "Dujawica", "In the morning sun (in the distance Czerwone Wierchy)", "Buczynowa Strażnica", "Owczarek", "White pasqueflower". Very good condition.
F. Goc (1893-1988) - studied at the Jagiellonian University from 1915 to 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.