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Portraits

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There were also taken some photos on location (particularly collective photos) during some ceremonies and anniversaries. Mostly in Nowy Targ town park and next the building of Sokół and the Town Hall. In the collective photo, there were also pictured nuns (from Serafitki order) who had arrived in Nowy Targ in 1905 bringing help for the most deprived persons (Photo No. 211). They organized the orphanage for children located in the building of the former tavern by Targowica, near the town park (Photo No. 214). They were nursing sick persons in private houses and in “Dom Ubogich” (en. “House for poor persons”) and when the hospital was opened, they managed it and worked as nurses (Photo No. 183, 206, 225, 261).

The picture taken in the shop with farming equipment in which the owners presenting their goods proudly is very eloquent and even, as it may seem, promotional (Photo No. 415). The other photograph presents ceremonially dressed workers of a handicrafts enterprise producing carriages and britzkas (Photo No. 414). The Samovar, one of requisites that, in the photos, is treated in a very particular way, placed on the chair, warms up the interior of the Inland Revenue building where its workers with serious and calm faces were photographed (photo no. 360). In the collective pictures, we can also recognize some office workers of the Starosty in Nowy Targ with Mateusz Korniak, starost (Photo No. 534).

The photography of Krajowy Kurs Stokarski (en. National Course for Carpenters - Photo No. 376) participants, taken in the theatre room of the “Sokół”, against a background of a stage curtain designed and made by Włodzimierz Tetmajer that was later lost during World War II (so the we can only imagine how it looked like basing on this preserved photograph)

 

 

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.

Jan Bednarski (1860-1926) (Photo No. 035), a doctor, Member of Parliament in Lwów (1903-1913), the first (in independent Poland) starost of Spisz and Orawa, political and social activist honored with Officer’s Cross of Polish Rebirth Order (pl. Krzyż Oficerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski), honorary citizen of Nowy Targ. Born in 1860 in Bystra near Jordanów, he graduated from St. Ann Junior High School in Cracow and medical studies at Jagiellonian University. Since 1860 bounded with Nowy Targ. Strongly dedicated to town’s life, he was the initiator of many ambitious projects. He contributed to creating new junior high school, to building new dormitory and hospital, to opening the rail line between Zakopane and Chabówka and between Nowy Targ and Sucha Hora; co-founder of “Gazeta Podhalańska”, When Poland regained its independence, he took part in some actions in favor of incorporating Spisz and Orawa to Poland. He died in 1926 in Nowy Targ.

Józef Rajski (1868-1936) (Photo No. 069, 118), a true-born inhabitant of Nowy Targ, long-term mayor of the town, folk and social activist, one of the richest craftsman in the town, the owner of the first in Podhale region electromotive butcher factory. Member of the board in the Regional Agricultural Association (pl. Okręgowe Towarzystwo Rolnicze) and in the Co-operative Savings Fund (pl. Powiatowa Kasa Oszczędności), activist in the “Sokół”, co-founder and member of Podhale Teams (pl. “Drużyny Podhalańskie) and Podhale Association (pl. Związek Podhalan). When he was working as the mayor of Nowy Targ, many spatial planning projects were implemented and many public utility buildings were built.