In the collections of the State Archive, there is the old photo picturing the old school that, already in 1842, became the main school in the town. When the seat of the school changed, the building was used shortly as the seat of the Postal Office . In the same year (1912), the special Commission (called in Polish “Komisja Upiększania Miasta”) decided to tidy up the town. It’s worth recalling that the materials collected during the demolition of the school were later auctioned off by the local government and on the Słowacki Square, there were planted some trees (the photo published in the album “Stary Nowy Targ”, en. “The old Nowy Targ”. In the photos presented here, the building of the Male School has already an added storey (built in 1912), where the Teaching Seminar was located (Photo No. 358, 386). In 1934, next to the building of the school, the Władysław Orkan (Photo No. 218, 219) monument was founded in front of which the inhabitants of Nowy Targ willingly stood and took some commemorative photos (Photo No. 257, 443). In the years 1931-1932, the space of the Słowacki Square was additionally filled by the corner building of the Co-operative Savings and Credit Fund designed by Jan Stefan Mayer which were placed next to the school buildings (today the seat of the Inland Revenue in Nowy Targ – Photo No. 385).

The complex of those buildings mentioned above, photographed not from the perspective of the Słowacki Square, but from the northern side, near Dunajec River, together with St. Catherine Church create the picturesque panorama of the town directed toward the river. It is interesting that the photography from the collection of views taken by Z. Sułkowski during occupation (Photo No. 395) is the exact repetition of the shot that we know from the photography taken also by him before the war, in 1925 (the photo in the collection of the Tatrzańskie Museum in Zakopane).

The view is exactly the same – the presbytery,  St. Catherine Church, the school, and the “Sokół” are pictures in the same places, on the high riverside of Dunajec and its calm waters are flowing near the riverside overgrew by grey willows. The season is different and the times are different but the calm of the winter view is perfectly unconcerned with the war that lasts in the world and which come also here very soon. In the morning, on 29th of January 1945, soon after an intervention of the Red Army in Nowy Targ, as a result of mine explosion left by the occupant, in the building of the Male school, there was a fire that destroyed two school buildings.

The changing town was photographed by Edward Morawetz, who with passion comparable to reporters or documentarians, immortalized some particular moments in its history. In 1913, soon after he had arrived in Nowy Targ, he took part in the opening ceremony of the new hospital. The modern, for those times, building of the hospital with its original architecture fits perfectly into the local landscape constituted by the slopes of the Gorce Mountains in the district Dział, what was noticed by a reporter of “Gazeta Podhalańska” who wrote: “The hospital is a beautiful building located in the dream place. The marvellous view over Dunajec, over the vast Nowotarska Valley and over the Tatra Mountains must make patients feel better” (“Gazeta Podhalańska” issued on 14th of October 1914). From the opening ceremony of the hospital, there is one retained photo of the Hospital Builder Committee taken against a background of the front elevation (Photo No. 209). Later, Morawetz photographed the hospital from different perspectives and in different nature sceneries (Photo No. 223, 229, 235, 262, 264, 357).