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Miners leaving a mine in Katovice. Paintings above the entrance show the Warsaw "wedding-cake", the multi-function building the Soviet Union offered the Poles as a gift, peace doves and the solidarity of a white, a black and an Asian worker. Katovice,1956
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Miners leaving a mine in Katovice. Paintings above the entrance show the Warsaw...

Miners returning home after work. Katovice, 1956
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Miners returning home after work. Katovice, 1956

The drab streets of Katovice, Poland's most important mining town. Katovice, 1956
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The drab streets of Katovice, Poland's most important mining town....

The drab streets of Katovice, Poland's most important mining town. An old wayside cross shows the same neglect as the housefronts. Katovice, 1956
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The drab streets of Katovice, Poland's most important mining town. An old waysid...

Private cobbler shop in Warsaw. In 1956, a limited amount of small, private enterprises was permitted and a two-year tax exemption encouraged shoemakers, hairdressers, jewellers, tailors and furriers to open shop. Warsaw, 1956
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Private cobbler shop in Warsaw. In 1956, a limited amount of small, private ente...

Private cobbler shop in Warsaw. In 1956, a limited amount of small, private enterprises was permitted and a two-year tax exemption encouraged shoemakers, hairdressers, jewellers, tailors and furriers to open shop. Warsaw, 1956
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Private cobbler shop in Warsaw. In 1956, a limited amount of small, private ente...

"Private" applecart in a Warsaw street. Warsaw, 1956
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"Private" applecart in a Warsaw street. Warsaw, 1956

Josef Gottschalk and his wife at lunch. A miner in the former Hohenzollern mine, he was drafted into the German army and returned to Poland and his old job in 1949, after years in a Russian POW-camp. His eldest son, aged 20, works in the same mine. Bytom, 1956
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Josef Gottschalk and his wife at lunch. A miner in the former Hohenzollern mine,...

Nova Huta steelmill near Cracow was Communist Poland's industrial flagship and pride. A group of workers sitting near the Martin steel plant, built by Communist East Germany. Nova Huta, 1956
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Nova Huta steelmill near Cracow was Communist Poland's industrial flagship and...

Photographs of outstanding workers on the walls of the former Koenigshuette-steelmill in Stalinogrod (Katovice), 1956.
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Photographs of outstanding workers on the walls of the former Koenigshuette-stee...

Eleven years after the end of World War II, quality shoes are still a rarity and very expensive. Katovice (Stalinogrod), Poland, 1956.
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Eleven years after the end of World War II, quality shoes are still a rarity and...

Miners in Bytom, Poland.
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Miners in Bytom, Poland.