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Lunch for a miner's family in Bytom,Polands richest coal region in Upper Silesia,1956.
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Lunch for a miner's family in Bytom,Polands richest coal region in Upper Sil...

Lunch for a miner's family in Bytom,Polands richest coal region in Upper Silesia,1956.
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Lunch for a miner's family in Bytom,Polands richest coal region in Upper Silesia...

New housing developments spring up all over Poland's industrial areas.A miner in his new,still empty apartment in Bytom,1956
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New housing developments spring up all over Poland's industrial areas.A miner...

Rebuilding Warsaw:while the old town and Stare Miasto square were lovingly rebuilt from Belotto's 18th ct. paintings,the district with the new administration buildings was sharply criticized in the Polish press for its "Stalinist"architecture.Warsaw,1956
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Rebuilding Warsaw:while the old town and Stare Miasto square were lovingly reb...

Socialist-realist mural in a small Polish town,shows happy workers,both industrial(coal) and agricultural under the rising sun of Socialism. Poronin,1956
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Socialist-realist mural in a small Polish town,shows happy workers,both indus...

Poland, Nova Huta
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Poland, Nova Huta

Sunday gloom in Nova Huta,an industrial town built after World War II.The Nova Huta steelmill was the pride and flagship of the heavy industry in Communist Poland.Nova Huta,1956.
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Sunday gloom in Nova Huta,an industrial town built after World War II.The N...

Ruins in Gdansk,Poland,1956.
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Ruins in Gdansk,Poland,1956.

Gdansk (Danzig),Poland, after massive destruction during World War II. In the center Marienkirche, Saint Mary's church, to the right the "Krantor", the crane-city gate. 1951
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Gdansk (Danzig),Poland, after massive destruction during World War II. In...

Ruins in Gdansk,1956
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Ruins in Gdansk,1956

Warsaw's "Stare Miasto",the old market,totally destroyed during World War II, was rebuilt in its original Renaissance splendour between 1950 and 1963.This was an extraordinary effort at a time when Poland was impoverished after the war.Warsaw,1956
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Warsaw's "Stare Miasto",the old market,totally destroyed during World W...

After World War II Warsaw was in ruins.The rebuilding of Stare Miasto,the Old Town,was done after 18th century paintings by Canaletto.The painstaking recon- struction lasted until 1963.Scaffoldings in a narrow, reconstructed street in the Old Town.Warsaw,1956
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After World War II Warsaw was in ruins.The rebuilding of Stare Miasto,the Old...