Franciszek Karabuła (1866-1945), (Photo No. 111, 275), priest, born in Tonie near Cracow, he graduated from high school and theological seminary in Cracow where also his ordination took place. In 1917 he earned PhD degree in theological sciences at Jagiellonian Universtiy. Since 1924 he had been working as a catechist at school and as a prefect at Junior High School’s Dormitory in Nowy Targ and in 1924 became parish priest at St. Catherine Church. Being dedicated to his parish and a very good organizer, he initiated building of a new church. He organized parish missions and retreats for intellectual elite. For his pastoral and civic attitude during German occupation, Adam Sapieha, the priest, let him wear a rochet and a mantelletta which, in church hierarchy, is considered to be honorable. He died from coronary attack on 4th of April 1945 in Nowy Targ.

Franciszek Dworski (1867-1945), (Photo No. 048), a long-term fire chief at Voluntary Fire Brigade in Nowy Targ, mayor of the town between 1922 and 1924.

Michał Rekucki (1884-1971), (Photo No. 119) an artist, painter, portraitist and landscapist. Born in Nowy Targ, he graduated from junior high school in Nowy Sącz. In 1907 he started to study at Philosophical Department of Jagiellonian Univeristy and, at the same time, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he was thought by Józef Mehoffer and Wojciech Weiss. After graduation, he was travelling around Europe. When World War II broke out, he was fighting against Russia in Austrian Army. Taken captive, he was exiled to Siberia. As he came back to Poland in 1921, he was living in Nowy Targ, but soon he emigrated to America where he stayed for good. He was buried in the Cemetery in Nowy Targ.

In the portraits taken my Morawets we can find many meritorious and famous persons whose work and activity went down in history. Nowy Targ Sokoli, office workers of starosty and the municipal council, lawyers, judges, teachers of the junior high school and Teaching Seminar. It is worth recalling some of them.

Kazimierz Baran (1878-1961), (Photo No. 105)historian and scientist, he graduated from the Department of History and Geography at Jagiellonian University, co-worker of the Library of the Ability Academy (pl. Akademia Umiejętności) in Cracow and of the Library in Vatican; history and geography teacher at junior high school in Nowy Targ and director of Teaching Seminar, author of many historic works regarding the history of Podhale region and Nowy Targ. He wrote many documents such as right and privileges or statutes for guildhalls, reviews of the starosty in Nowy Targ. Together with Ludwik Wyrostek, he wrote the first study entitled “Z przeszłości Nowego Targu” (en. “The history of Nowy Targ), published in 1948.

Wiktor Ignacy Gutowski (1884-1971), (Photo No. 117, 310) artist, painter, writer and a long-term pedagogue at the local junior high school, at Teaching Seminar and at Primary School in Nowy Targ. He was attended the School of Drawings (pl. Szkoła Rysunków) and the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Later he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow being taught by Leon Wyczółkowski and at Kunst Gewerbe Schule in Vienna. During World Word I, he was a soldier in the third Brigade of the Legions and participated in the defense of Lwów in 1919. In 1921, he arrived in Nowy Targ, where he was working as a drawing teacher till 1958 when he retired and moved to Cracow. Author of many portraits and religious pictures which decorates the walls of houses in Nowy Targ. He painted Stations of the Cross for NSPJ Church, which is still there.