63 photos
Private farmers in Poland were served by state-run stations for agricultural machinery. Private farmer Alojzi Lemanczyk has borrowed a harvester from the station at Cukowowa near Gdansk, 1956
#56081311

Private farmers in Poland were served by state-run stations for agricultural mac...

The Gdansk shipyard (Lech Walesa's "Solidarity" was born here in 1981), was still busy building ships for the Soviet Union in 1956.
Gdansk, 1956
#56081417

The Gdansk shipyard (Lech Walesa's "Solidarity" was born here in 1981), was stil...

Socialist Realism:a mural of happy farmers on a tractor on the wall of a shabby building in a small Polish town near Nova Huta, 1956
#56081517A

Socialist Realism:a mural of happy farmers on a tractor on the wall of a shabby...

Nova Huta in 1956 was an unfinished industrial town with vacant lots. Mothers and children take the air on a shabby lawn. A ferris-wheel and new, cheap housing in the background. A stray cow.

Nova Huta, Poland, 1956
#56081527A

Nova Huta in 1956 was an unfinished industrial town with vacant lots. Mothers an...

Nova Huta,in 1956 an unfinished town with vacant lots. 
Mothers and children take the air on a shabby lawn     
A ferris-wheel and new,cheap housing in the back-      
ground.Nova Huta,1956
#56081530A

Nova Huta,in 1956 an unfinished town with vacant lots. Mothers and children tak...

Nova Huta,in 1956 an unfinished town with vacant lots.
Mothers and children take the air on a shabby lawn
A ferris-wheel and new,cheap housing in the back-
ground.Nova Huta,1956
#56081531A

Nova Huta,in 1956 an unfinished town with vacant lots. Mothers and children take...

A Saturday afternoon in unfinished Nova Huta.          
Young people,mothers and children sit under the        
swings of a fairground.Nova Huta,Poland,1956.
#56081532A

A Saturday afternoon in unfinished Nova Huta. Young people,mothers and...

Saturday afternoon in Nova Huta:Soldiers at the
fairground.Nova Huta,1956.
#56081534A

Saturday afternoon in Nova Huta:Soldiers at the fairground.Nova Huta,1956.

Saturday afternoon in Nova Huta:Soldiers at the        
fairground.Nova Huta,1956.
#56081536A

Saturday afternoon in Nova Huta:Soldiers at the fairground.Nova Huta,195...

The rolling mill of Nova Huta,then one of the three    
biggest worldwide.It was built for Nova Huta in the    
Soviet Union (see Cyrilic letters on the machine).     
Nova Huta,1956
#560816 4

The rolling mill of Nova Huta,then one of the three biggest worldwide.It was...

The rolling mill of Nova Huta,then one of the three    
biggest worldwide.It was built for Nova Huta in the    
Soviet Union (see Cyrilic letters on the machine).     
Nova Huta,1956
#56081611

The rolling mill of Nova Huta,then one of the three biggest worldwide.It was...

Washroom at the former Hohenzollern-mine in Bytom.     
Most of the miners were Silesians who spoke better     
German than Polish,but had Polish citizenship.Coal     
was one of Communist Poland's major exports;miners'    
wages were higher than average. Bytom,1956
#560818 6

Washroom at the former Hohenzollern-mine in Bytom. Most of the miners were...