Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
From deliberations over the proper Christmas tree to one of the best baubles and fattest carp for Christmas Eve dinner, see what pre-Christmas purchasing seemed like in Poland 90 years in the past.
A girl provides a batch of shining baubles to wood crates prepared for patrons in search of to brighten their Christmas bushes.
A nun holds up a small Christmas tree or maybe a bouquet of fir branches she has chosen, as two girls and a baby look on.
A fashionably dressed girl in a belted coat, white gloves, beret and clutch bag reaches out to take a more in-depth have a look at enticingly wrapped packing containers of items or confectionary on show at an outside stall on the Christmas market in entrance of Kraków’s Fabric Corridor.
A household with a powerful child’s perambulator cease to purchase trinkets at a standard stall outdoors Kraków’s Fabric Corridor, Essential Market Sq..
A person holds up two Christmas tree decorations, one adorned with a stork, the opposite with a peacock, while a picture of the Polish eagle, (Poland’s coat of arms) is seen on show on the wall behind him, alongside photos of what appear like two Polish political leaders and a Polish map.
A gaggle of boys get pleasure from select a stay carp from an enormous water-filled barrel with one holding his flailing fish proudly within the air for the road vendor.
A crowds collect round a distinguished trying man with a cane who appears to be entertaining a baby with one thing inside a weaved basket.
Resolution made! Two males, one holding a small axe, deal with a Christmas tree which appears to have been chosen by a buyer, as a person seems on and a queue gathers behind.
A person picks out and considers an extended candle snuffer cane from a younger road vendor providing them in entrance of Kraków’s Fabric Corridor, with crowds seen throughout the market behind them.
A smiling road vendor wearing a sheepskin and stylish males’s hat entices prospects by proudly displaying his lengthy ropes of dried mushrooms on his left arm.
A girl stops to admire and deliberate over a pair of intricate Christmas tree decorations whereas a vendor shows his spectacular array of unique baubles from an open valise.
Fruit and vegetable sellers wrap up in opposition to the chilly as they wait for patrons with their weaved baskets of recent wares in entrance of a wall of minimize Christmas bushes and the recognisable turrets of Kraków’s Fabric Corridor seen above them.
A crowd of boys look excitedly in the direction of the digital camera as they rejoice the standard buy of the Christmas Eve dinner fish round a person who’s putting a big karp on a weighing scale.
This text was first revealed in December 2021.
