Boryslaw, Polska--Polskie koleje państwowe / Bogdan Nowakowski Warszawa. – Historic Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Boryslaw, Polska--Polskie koleje państwowe / Bogdan Nowakowski Warszawa., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Boryslaw, Polska--Polskie koleje państwowe / Bogdan Nowakowski Warszawa.
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Borysław was one of the most productive oil towns in interwar Poland, and this chromolithograph shows its drilling rigs rising above the landscape. The poster was issued under the Polish State Railways to encourage travel to the region, so the image of industry was meant to attract visitors as much as to document the oilfields. Galicia, where Borysław lies, had been an early center of the modern oil industry in the nineteenth century, and by the 1920s and 1930s the town's wells and rigs were a familiar symbol of Polish industrial enterprise. Bogdan Nowakowski's bold color design reflects the period's travel posters, which blended modern graphic style with the promise of new places to see.
| Created / published | Warszawa : Lit. Art. W. Glówczewski, [ca. 1930] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph ; 100 x 70 cm. |
| Genre | Travel posters Polish 1920-1940.Chromolithographs Color 1920-1940. |
| Subjects | Oil well drilling rigs--Poland--1920-1940. Petroleum industry--Poland--1920-1940. Tourist trade--Poland--1920-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,781 × 4,647 px · prints to 13 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220615 |
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