PORTABLE EXPOSITOR belonging to the Goc family. [Turn of 19th and 20th century]. Display casket for photographs.

PORTABLE EXPOSITOR belonging to the Goc family. [Turn of 19th and 20th century]. Display casket for photographs.
Display casket used for presenting images of family, friends and distinguished personalities, placed on prominent places (counters, desks, tables, in cooking rooms), an important element of interior decoration of aristocratic, noble and bourgeois house. Display case, form ca 19x26 cm, height 12 cm, upholstered in red velvet, the interior lined with burgundy silk fabric. On the lid made of leather embossed plaque with an image of a swan symbolizing memories, referring to the compactness of the casket. All lower corners in metal fittings, metal handles on the sides, on the front a fragment of a metal lock, without a key. Inside an operable metal structure with display screens folding to two sides, each about 65 cm long. In each arm of the screen were placed 6 photographs in cabinet format. In addition, 2 photographs were placed under the lid, the first of which depicts Valery Rzewuski in a shot from the 1880s, while a pencil identification inscription was placed on the back of the second: "Aunt Gocowa," meaning Helena Popielecka (1890-1972), painter, later married to Franciszek Goc. Other photographs show members of the Goc family associated with Krakow, and on the face of one of the photos an inscription in ink: "Franciszek Goc". Velvet scuffed, cracks at joints, leather on cover slightly stained, nevertheless overall good condition.
Franciszek Goc (1893-1988) - studied at the Jagiellonian University from 1915 to 1919 and graduated as an agricultural engineer. 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.