Sophia Jahodna's Album [92 pasted photos and 25 loose photos] [Binding by Robert Jahoda].

Album by Zofia Jahodina [daughter of Robert Jahoda], 36 x 30 cm, bound in calfskin half leather made in Robert Jahoda's workshop, with initials Z. J. embossed in gold on the face, the edges of the pages gilded, the cardboard of the lining marbled.

The album has 18 pages of thick cardboard, contains 92 pasted-in photos and 25 loose photos [most photos taken before WWII]. The vast majority of the photos are family mementos (Jahoda with his children, walks with his dog, vacations, social gatherings, etc.). The album includes photos by Wladyslaw Gargul [Wieliczka], and at least one taken at Jozef Kuczynski's workshop. In addition: in front of Robert Jahoda's studio on Gołębia Street in Cracow, in the studio, Jahoda on the Ore River, the Royal Castle on Wawel, the Building of the Sokół Gymnastic Society, Smolensk Street, the Female Gymnasium on Franciszkańska Street, Collegium Maius, a trip to Wilanów, trips to the sea, the mountains and the countryside. Absolutely unique, priceless memento of the family of the most important Polish bookbinder!

"Robert Jahoda (born June 1, 1862 in Bochnia, died February 28, 1947 in Krakow) - bookbinder, author of artistic bookbindings. He learned his profession in Krakow, Tarnow, Lvov and Vienna. In Vienna he learned the binding techniques used in the Imperial Library. After returning to Cracow, he established a bookbinding workshop, which won recognition at home and abroad. Initially, he ran his workshop at the Market Square, then in the Larisch Palace, at 2 Gołębia Street, until he moved to number 4, his workshop was a meeting place for prominent writers and artists. He specialized in representational and bibliophilic bindings, conservation and restoration of bindings of old prints and archival materials. He received many awards and prizes at exhibitions (he participated in more than 20 exhibitions) of bibliophilic and representational bindings and decorative arts in Poland and Europe. Many libraries - the Jagiellonian, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Czartoryski, the Kórnicka and the Archive of Old Records of the City of Cracow - commissioned him to preserve and bind their collections (among others, he restored Jan Długosz's Annales seu Cronicae Regni Poloniae). He also framed paintings by Krakow painters (including J. Fałat, J. Kossak, W. Kossak, J. Malczewski). He was a member and active activist of the Society of Book Lovers, the Brotherhood of the Bursar, as well as an elder of the Bookbinders Guild and its honorary member. After his death, the plant was run by his son Robert, and was later nationalized, transformed into the "Starodruk" Work Cooperative. He is buried in Rakowicki Cemetery." [article from Encyclopedia of Krakow].

Władysław Gargul (born March 18, 1883 in Bochnia, died August 24, 1946) - Polish photographer, inventor, activist for the preservation of the artistic character of the photographic profession, Honorary Member of the Photographers' Guild in Cracow.

Józef Antoni Kuczyński (born 1877, died 1952) - Polish photographer. In 1907, together with J. Gürtler, he opened a photography workshop in the Spiski Palace on the Main Square in Krakow. Since 1912. Kuczynski ran it independently. The atelier was richly furnished, with a wall frieze and furniture designed by Tadeusz Stryjeński. The establishment operated until 1939. Kuczynski maintained close contacts with the art community, collected paintings and painted himself. Among others, he was friends with Xawery Dunikowski, whose work he documented in the interwar period. Dunikowski placed Kuczynski's head among his Wawel Heads. In turn, Jacek Malczewski portrayed Kuczynski as a faun in one of his paintings.

The Queen Wanda State Female Gymnasium in Cracow - a public high school operating in Cracow from 1905 to 1962.

Building of the "Sokol" Gymnastic Society - a historic sports hall located in Krakow's District I at 27 J. Pilsudski Street, in Piasek.

Smolensk Street in Krakow - was laid out in the 2nd half of the 19th century. in place of the road leading from the Vistula Gate towards the Smolensk Jurisdiction. Initially unnamed, it was later named Smolensk. In 1881 the street was given its present name.