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Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.

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Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.

Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII

Tarnow, 1905. A mass demonstration for universal suffrage, arranged by the Polish and Jewish socialist parties.

Tarnow, 1928. Outdoor portrait of members of Tsukunft, the youth movement of the Jewish Socialist Bund.

Tarnow, 1929. Members of the Bundishe boyuvke (the "tough squad" of the Jewish Socialist Bund), acting as marshals in the May Day demonstration.

Tarnow, 1930. On May Day, members of Tsukunft ("the future"), the youth movement of the Jewish Socialist Bund, assemble.

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Tarnow, WWI. A Jewish bread peddler, wearing traditional dress, and pushing a cart.

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Tomaszów, 1920s-1930s. Members of the Beth Lechem Association, a charitable organization, distributing bread and challah to poor children.

Unknown location, 1902. All the Jewish soldiers of the 48th Ukrainian Dragoon Regiment of the Czarist Army.

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Unknown location, 1920s-1930s. Laughing children, who were selected to attend a TOZ day camp.

Unknown location, 1920s. A shoemaker at work.

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Unknown location, 1923. The Belzer Rebbe, and his gabbai.

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Unknown location, 1924. On the Sabbath, three men in overcoats are seated outside on a stoop, two of them reciting the Psalms.

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Unknown location, 1928. Two men, pose beside the gravestone of the rabbi of the community.

Unknown location, 1930. Informational chart, about the distribution of OSE hygienical educational material, 1923-1927.

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Unknown location, 1930s. School children, posing with a wall banner for a campaign to save money in the PKO.

Unknown location, 1934. Members of Morgnshtern, pose for a group portrait at the end of the pier.

Unknown location, 1934. Members of Morgnshtern, posing for a group portrait with the boat crew.

Unknown location, 1934. Members of Morgnshtern, posing on the ship's mast.

Unknown location, after 1921. Children, posing at the grave of a family member.

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Unknown location, ca. 1880s. Group portrait. Tintype.

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Unknown location, ca. 1910. Yiddish writers Shalom Asch, I. L. Peretz, Peretz's son Lucjan, and Hersh David Nomberg, a Hebrew writer.

Unknown location, ca. WWI. A kheyder class in session.

Unknown location,1912. Yiddish writer I. L. Peretz, with his wife Helena, and three young women friends.

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Unknown location,1920s-1930s. A city street scene.

Unknown location. ca. 1900. Studio portrait of a family.

Unknown location. Ca. WWI. Men and women, carting food to town.

Unknown location. Card from a series of photographs, depicting "Jewish Livelehoods," showing a secondhand clothes dealer and his customer, a housewife.

Unknown location. Card from a series of photographs, depicting "Jewish Livelihoods," showing a woman who deals in used goods.

Unknown location. New Year's greeting card, depicting the Shlogn Kapores ceremony.

Unknown location. New Year's greeting card.

Unknown location. Statement about the OSE-TOZ "Summer Colony" activities in interwar Poland, sponsored by the AJDC.

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Uscilug, 1931. Two women and a man, posing at the tombstone of Khaye Lipshe Levensboym (d. 1927).

Uscilug, December 10, 1931. Ben-Zion, standing among members of Betar, posing in uniform.

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Uscilug. A gathering around Rosh Hashanah at the Lug River, for the observance of the tashlich ritual.

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Vilna 1936-1937. The first class in women's tailoring, at the trade school of the Jewish Women's Union.

Vilna, 1913. Boris Kletzkin, and Jacob Dinesohn.

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Vilna, 1914-1918. Outdoor portrait of Dr. Elias Sedlis.

Vilna, 1915. Picture postcard of a 100-year-old Jewish man, exiled from the Suwalki district by the Russian authorities, lying on a cot, surrounded by onlookers.

Vilna, 1918-1919. A group of young teachers from the Kinder Farzorgnt (Child Care) Orphanage and School at 39 Ostrabrama Street, posing near a tree.

Vilna, 1918. Outdoor portrait of several Yiddish and Hebrew Teachers, members of the Maccabi Sports Club.

Vilna, 1919. Staff of the Der Tog newspaper, at the time of its establishment.

Vilna, 1920-1921. Photomontage of the students and faculty, of the second yearly cycle of Jewish pedagogical courses.

Vilna, 1920's. Staff members, pose at the entrance to the TOZ sanatorium.

Vilna, 1920s-1930s. Studio portrait of shirtless weight lifters, from the Maccabi Sports Club.

Vilna, 1920s-1930s.The dispensary in the Mishmeret Cholim Hospital.

Vilna, 1920s. Moyshe Kulbak, H. Leyvik, and Yakov Gershteyn, with students of the Jewish Real-Gymnasium.

Vilna, 1920s. Children at the TOZ summer camp in the Pospieska suburb, sitting in formation to spell TOZ.

Vilna, 1920s. Children posing in the courtyard of an orphanage.

Vilna, 1923. At the shul-hoyf, the poor beg for alms.

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Vilna, 1925. Portrait of poets H. Leivick (right), and Moshe Kulbak.

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Vilna, 1926. A group of Jewish men in the Vilna Old Age Home, get in a few pages of Talmud study.

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Vilna, 1927. Tu Be-Shevat, at a CEBEKA school.

Vilna, 1927. Photomontage of the faculty and students of the Gymnasia S. Gurevitsh.

Vilna, 1928. Portrait of Kulbak, Opatoshu, Maks Eryk and Zalman Reisen, board members of the Yiddish PEN Club.

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Vilna, 1928. Portrait of Yiddish writers.

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Vilna, 1929. Founders of the YIVO: Wirgili-Kahan, Zeleznikov, Kalmanovitch, Unidentified, Weinreich, Steinberg, Zhitlowsky, Szapiro, Z. Reisen, Czernichow, and Keltzkin.

Vilna, 1929. Hand-drawn album cover, of photographs of the "Summer Colony," the TOZ summer camp.

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Vilna, 1930. Photomontage of portraits of the staff and the 8th graduating class, of the Jewish Real-Gymnasium.

Vilna, 1930s. A decorated hall in the David Pinsky School, on its fifth anniversary.

Vilna, 1930s. A group portrait of students of the Vocational Courses and Trade School, of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna.

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Vilna, 1930s. A man diving into the new swimming pool at the Maccabi Sports Club.

Vilna, 1930s. A man diving into the new swimming pool, at the Maccabi Sports Club.

Vilna, 1930s. A peddler woman, conversing with two young boys in the durkhhoyf (through-yard), between Jatkowa and Zydowska streets.

Vilna, 1930s. A rabbi at the Slonimer Yeshiva, delivering a talmudic lecture to his students.

Vilna, 1930s. A young Talmudic scholar, in the Ramayles Yeshiva.

Vilna, 1930s. Album of girls attending the Nursing School, page five.

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Vilna, 1930s. Album of girls attending the Nursing School, page four.

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Vilna, 1930s. Album of girls attending the Nursing School, page seven.

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Vilna, 1930s. Album of girls attending the Nursing School, page six.

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Vilna, 1930s. Album of girls attending the Nursing School, page three.

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Vilna, 1930s. Boys and their teacher, studying Talmud in the Ramayles Yeshiva.

Vilna, 1930s. Boys and young men, posing with their Talmud texts in the Ramayles Yeshiva.

Vilna, 1930s. Children playing with clay, seated around a table, supervised by their teachers, in the P. Anman Day Care Center run by YAF.

Vilna, 1930s. Children's division of the Maccabi Sports Club, performing calisthenics on a sports field.

Vilna, 1930s. Men at prayer, at the Jewish Home for the Aged at 17 Portowa Street.

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Vilna, 1930s. Men walking on a path in the shulhoyf. A Yiddish poster advertises the services of shipping agent L. Kopelovitsh, to emigrants to Palestine.

Vilna, 1930s. Portrait of a committee, taken at the David Pinsky School's fifth anniversary.

Vilna, 1930s. Portrait of a committee, taken at the David Pinsky School's fifth anniversary.

Vilna, 1930s. Portrait of a committee, taken at the David Pinsky School's fifth anniversary.

Vilna, 1930s. The Maccabi Sports Club cycling team, posing on a road with their bicycles.

Vilna, 1930s. The Maccabi Sports Club skiing team, at summer training.

Vilna, 1930s. Three young men, studying Talmud in the Ramayles Yeshiva.

Vilna, 1930s. Young men, engaged in a lively Talmudic discussion, in the Ramayles Yeshiva.

Vilna, 1931. Dr. Zemach Shabad, reading to his grandsons Uriel and Gabriel Weinreich.

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Vilna, 1933. Photomontage of the 1933 graduating class and faculty, of the Vilner Yiddisher Tekhnikum.

Vilna, 1934-1935. Photomontage of the students and staff, of the Hilf Durkh Arbet Trade School.

Vilna, 1934. Aleksander Granach, Zalman Reisen with his wife, and Dr. M. Albauer, in front of Reisen's home.

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Vilna, 1934. Naptime at the A. Litvak Day Care Center, which was run by YAF.

Vilna, 1934. The library of the ORT Technical School.

Vilna, 1935. Informal portrait at the Jewish Orphans' Home, with Simon Dubnow, Marc Chagall, Charney, and others.

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Vilna, 1935. A TOZ summer camp for frail children in need of fresh air and good food, with visiting dignitaries.

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Vilna, 1935. Portrait of M. Schreiber, director of the ORT Technical School, at his desk in his wood-paneled office.

Vilna, 1936-1937. Classroom at the Children's Home of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna.

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Vilna, 1936-1937. Home Economics lessons, at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna.

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Vilna, 1936-37. Alumnae of the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna, sewing at the Madame Annétte corset shop.

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Vilna, 1936-37. Photomontage featuring the graduating class and the faculty, of the David Pinsky School.

Vilna, 1936-37. A display of clothing and hat designs, part of an exhibition at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union.

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Vilna, 1936-37. A display of women's undergarments and sleepware, produced at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna.

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Vilna, 1936-37. Girls from the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna, at the beach.

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Vilna, 1936-37. Girls from the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna, posing together.

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