Guide to the Evgenii Lendon Collection, 1890's-1930s, 1987-1991, 1994, RG 1853

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YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Email: archives@yivo.cjh.org
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Collection Overview

Title: Guide to the Evgenii Lendon Collection, 1890's-1930s, 1987-1991, 1994, RG 1853

ID: RG 1853 FA

Extent: 1.1 Linear Feet

Abstract

This collection contains 147 photographs of the city of L’viv, Ukraine (formerly Lemberg, Austria-Hungary; Lwów, Poland; L’vov, Russia). The photographs were taken by an unknown photographer(s) at various times during the period ca. 1890 through the 1930s. Three photographs are from the post-1945 years. The majority of the photographs were developed from glass negatives between 1987 and 1991. These negatives came to the attention of Evgenii Lendon in the 1980s, and Lendon preserved the images by making large, exhibition-quality prints from the negatives.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The collection is comprised of 147 sepia, as well as black and white photo prints, some of which were made from glass negatives. The glass negatives are not in this collection. Most of the photographs show various parts of the city of L’viv as it was during the last decades under the Hapsburg rule, and during the interwar period in the independent Polish republic. They depict the city in its artistic and architectural splendor, as well as it being the hub of trade, politics, multicultural and societal life. Included are views of major thoroughfares, street and marketplace scenes, advertisements, parades, theaters, high society clubs, ceremonies involving famous people, churches of varying denominations, monuments of famous people, and cemeteries. A select number of photographs clearly depict scenes with a Jewish presence: Jewish shops, a hospital, a cemetery and funeral chapel, burnt-out synagogues, and old Jewish neighborhoods. Jewish signs and posters in Yiddish and Polish are visible in some of these photos.

Historical Note

Evgenii Lendon was a museum supervisor and photographer at the National Museum of L'viv (formerly the Lenin Museum). Mr. Lendon immigrated to the United States in 1992, where he now resides.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: For information about access to this collection, contact: Chief Archivist , YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, 10011 email: archives@yivo.cjh.org

Acquisition Source: The collection was given to the YIVO Archives in 2007 by Fay and Julian Bussgang of Lexington, MA.

Preferred Citation: Published citations should take the following form:Identification of item, date (if known); YIVO Archives; Evgenii Lendon Collection; RG 1853; folder number.

Box and Folder Listing

Series I: Evgenii Lendon Collection 1890s-1930s, 1987-1991, 1994

Folder 1: Street view undated
Folder 2: Zakatna Street, [district] II Zolkiewskie. Jews in the street. Stamp of the L'viv State Historical Museum. undated
Folder 3: Old Jewish neighborhood undated
Folder 4: Funeral chapel at the Jewish cemetery. Inscription: Beis mo’ed lekol ha’khai undated: Folders: 15
Folder 5: Group advertising on a horse-drawn platform: Cech Czapkarzy i Kapelusznikow we Lwowie (Guild of Cap and Hatmakers in Lwów) undated
Folder 6: Group advertising on a horse-drawn platform: Cech Czapkarzy i Kapelusznikow we Lwowie (Guild of Cap and Hatmakers in Lwów) undated
Folder 7: A burnt-out synagogue undated
Folder 8: Old Jewish neighborhood undated
Folder 9: Old Jewish neighborhood undated
Folder 10: Old Jewish neighborhood undated
Folder 11: A burnt-out synagogue undated
Folder 12: A burnt-out synagogue undated
Folder 13: A burnt-out synagogue undated
Folder 14: [A synagogue] undated
Folder 15: [A synagogue] undated
Folder 16: Old Jewish neighborhood undated
Folder 17: Yiddish posters on the street post undated
Folder 18: Street scene undated
Folder 19: [A synagogue] undated
Folder 20: Jewish Hospital, Rappaport Street 1920s
Folder 21: Street stalls, Yiddish signs undated
Folder 22: Jewish stores in a Lwów suburb undated: Folders: 18
Folder 23: Piekarska Street, a crowd of Poles and a Jew in their midst undated
Folder 24: Guild of cap- and hatmakers undated
Folder 25: Corner of Krakowska and Ormianska Streets 1930s
Folder 26: A burnt-out synagogue undated
Folder 27: Templum Synagogue undated
Folder 28: Jewish Hospital, Rappaport Street 1920s
Folder 29: Market Square 1920s
Folder 30: A street undated
Folder 31: Corner, Sykstuska and Legionow Streets 1890s-1920s
Folder 32: Legionow Street, a Marine League (Liga Morska) parade 1930s
Folder 33: [Legionow Street, a Marine League (Liga Morska) parade] 1930s
Folder 34: Krakowska Street and Goluchowski Square with Yiddish sign undated
Folder 35: Jewish stores in a Lwów suburb undated
Folder 36: Old Jewish neighborhood 1900s-1920s
Folder 37: Boznica (Synagogue) Street, Old Synagogue undated
Folder 38: Funeral chapel at the Jewish cemetery. Inscription: Beis mo’ed lekol ha’khai undated
Folder 39: Funeral chapel at the Jewish cemetery. Inscription: Beis mo’ed lekol ha’khai undated
Folder 40: Funeral chapel at the Jewish cemetery. Inscription: Beis mo’ed lekol ha’khai undated
Folder 41: Funeral chapel at the Jewish cemetery. Inscription: Beis mo’ed lekol ha’khai undated
Folder 42: Templum Synagogue undated
Folder 43: Akademicka Street undated: Folders: 17
Folder 44: Street market undated
Folder 45: Krakowska Street and Goluchowski Square undated
Folder 46: Group photo undated
Folder 47: Aleksander Fredro Monument undated
Folder 48: Palace of Art undated
Folder 49: Singer Jan Kiepura 1927
Folder 50: Krakowska Street market 1900s
Folder 51: Karol Ludwik Street 1900s
Folder 52: Akademicka Street undated
Folder 53: Eastern Fair (Targi Wschodnie) 1930s
Folder 54: Ambulance Society undated
Folder 55: Ksiezna Gora (Prince Mount) undated
Folder 56: Hunting Society (Kurkowe Towarzystwo) undated
Folder 57: Halicka Street undated
Folder 58: Advertising local beer undated
Folder 59: King Jan Sobieski Monument undated
Folder 60: Galician Parliament(Sejm) 1900s
Folder 61: City Park undated
Folder 62: Legionow Street undated
Folder 63: Eastern Fair undated: Folders: 46; Folders: 3
Folder 64: Jan Sobieski Monument 1930s
Folder 65: Jan Sobieski monument at the Hetman Embankment (Waly Hetmanskie) undated
Folder 66: Grodziecka Street undated
Folder 67: Jan Sobieski monument at the Hetman Embankment (Waly Hetmanskie) undated
Folder 68: Akademicka Street 1920s
Folder 69: Marjacki Square 1930s
Folder 70: Marketplace undated
Folder 71: Halicka Street 1930s
Folder 72: 10 Teatralna Street, Café “Sztuka” (Art) undated
Folder 73: A street undated
Folder 74: Marjacki Square 1930s
Folder 75: Sausages advertised 1930s
Folder 76: Eastern Fair (Targi Wschodnie), the rotunda building where the Raclawice Panorama was exhibited (a giant painting by Jan Styka, Wojciech Kossak, and other artists representing the battle of Raclawice, 1793) undated
Folder 77: Teatralna Street 1930s
Folder 78: 114 Market Square 1920s
Folder 79: Castle Hill (Gora Zamkowa) undated
Folder 80: Intersection of Karol Ludwik and Kopernik streets undated
Folder 81: Halicki Square 1920s
Folder 82: Decoration “ruins” of a castle in the Stryjski Park 1920s
Folder 83: Lwów Railroad Station 1920s
Folder 84: May 11th Street 1930s
Folder 85: Strzelecki Square in Podwale, the fire station undated
Folder 86: Armenian Church on Ormianska (Armenian) Street 1930s
Folder 87: St. Bernard (Bernardynski) Church 1930s
Folder 88: Cemetery of the Defenders (Cmentarz Obroncow) 1930s
Folder 89: St. Elizabeth Church 1930s
Folder 90: Tearing off sheet iron from the rooftop of the Cathedral Church for the needs of the Austrian army 1916
Folder 91: St. Elizabeth Church 1920s
Folder 92: St. Elizabeth Church, inauguration 1912
Folder 93: Cemetery of the Defenders 1930s
Folder 94: St. Elizabeth Church 1920s
Folder 95: Church of the Virgin Mary, inauguration 1930s
Folder 96: St. Elizabeth Church 1920s
Folder 97: St. Bernard Church undated
Folder 98: Church of St. Madeleine (Magdalena) 1920s
Folder 99: Monument to Count Agenor Goluchowski undated
Folder 100: Karol Ludwik Street 1900s
Folder 101: Marjacki Square 1930s
Folder 102: Akademicka Street undated
Folder 103: 10th Jubilee Eastern Fair 1930 September 2
Folder 104: Halicki Square 1894
Folder 105: Ignace Jan Paderewski honored at City Hall undated
Folder 106: Street advertisement for the chocolate factory “Branka” (Wedel) 1930s
Folder 107: President Wojciechowski visiting the St. Yur Basilica 1920s
Folder 108: Wladyslaw Mickiewicz, son of the poet Adam Mickiewicz 1900s
Folder 109: Lyczakowski cemetery 1900s
Folder 110: Podwale 1894
Folder 111: Church on Zamarstynowska Street undated
Folder 112: Lyczakowski cemetery 1900s
Folder 113: Dominican Church undated
Folder 114: Zamarstynowska Street undated
Folder 115: Marjacki Square 1900s
Folder 116: Corner of Sykstuska and Karol Ludwik Streets 1894: Folders: 16
Folder 117: Zbozowy Square 1894
Folder 119: Arts Palace, Stryjski Park 1920s
Folder 120: St. Elizabeth Church 1912
Folder 121: St. Elizabeth Church 1912
Folder 122: Marjacki Square, a parade 1900s
Folder 123: Eastern Fair undated
Folder 124: Karol Ludwik Street and Hetman Embankment 1910s
Folder 125: Halicka Street 1894
Folder 126: Hetmanska Street 1909
Folder 127: Arc built in 1888 in honor of the Emperor Franz-Joseph’s visit to Lwów undated
Folder 128: A bakery on Bem Street undated
Folder 129: The Falcon Monument 1930s
Folder 130: A building being renovated on Market Square 1910s
Folder 131: Casino de-Paris, Rejtana Street undated
Folder 132: Trybunalski Square 1920s
Folder 133: A salon for the well-to-do undated
Folder 134: Waly Hetmanskie (Hetman Enbankment) undated
Folder 135: Tableau [Industrial Society of Butchers and Soapmakers] 1926: Folders: 10
Folder 136: Waly Hetmanskie 1920s
Folder 138: A meeting in front of the Grand Theater (Teatr Wielki) 1910s
Folder 139: Market Square undated
Folder 140: Halicka Street 1930s
Folder 141: Jewish Hospital, Rapaporta Street undated
Folder 142: A building cave-in on Boznicza Street (old Jewish neighborhood) with poster in Yiddish and Polish calling for a May Day demonstration 1900
Folder 143: Inauguration of the Land Exhibition 1906
Folder 144: Entrance to the Historical Museum, Market Square (which holds the glass negatives of the prints in this collection) 1948
Folder 145: [Jewish cemetery] Monument “to the memory of the victims of the Hitlerist murderers,” in Yiddish and in Russian
Folder 146: Street view w/ burned-out building undated
Folder 147: L'viv prison, Gorodskaia Street 1994