Objects

Photo album of the Garnek family

The photo album with pre-made slots for photographs – it stored photographs from the present collection. It has 15 pages with photo slots. On the front, there is an endpaper. The cover is covered with leather, coloured, featuring a metal closure in the centre of the longer edge. In the upper part of the front cover, there is a figure holding a spear, and to the right of the figure, there are decorative initials "AS" separating the date. Unfortunately, only the first two digits of the date are legible: 19, and the last two digits are unclear. The lower part of the cover is adorned with three tulips covered with remnants of red and green paint. The decoration has an Art Nouveau style. On the back cover, there is an embossed pattern composed of diamonds, with embellishments in the corners.

The photo album's pages were likely originally white; the edges of the photo slots are decorated with a distinct golden border. Below the slots, there are cutouts allowing the insertion of photographs, and these cutouts are also adorned with a thin golden border, slightly offset from them.
The photo album is awaiting its – complex – conservation (in the images, the state after only preventive conservation is visible).


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Information about the object
Object type
diaristic material
Time of creation / dating
1st quarter of the 20th century
Created place
Poland (Europe) Russia (Europe, Asia) Ukraine (Europe)
Technique
forming
sewing
gluing
printing
cutting
Material
paper
cardboard
metal
ink
Keywords
Copyright status
the object is not protected by copyright law
Owner
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Identification number
MPOLIN-A58.1.56