The Presidential Library digitized postcards with views of European cities

The Presidential Library has digitized 50 postcards with views of the cities of Germany, France, Poland, Greece, Switzerland and other countries. Basically, these are photographs taken in the first half of the XX century. Black-and-white open letters, as they were called earlier, can tell a lot.

Old, well-groomed Budapest, Paris, Riga, Lublin, Krakow are magnificent...

Postcards with views of Warsaw exceed the number of others in the collection handed over to the Presidential Library. This city was hardest hit during the Second World War. The greatest damage was brought to the capital of Poland, not the bombing of the war years, but the planned destruction of the city by the house behind the house, quarter after quarter in the last weeks of the German occupation. When the restoration of Warsaw, to which residents started immediately after the liberation of the Polish capital, architects, builders and restorers used images of the main architectural dominants, which were so accurately transferred in photographs with views of the city.

The collection of postcards contains several images of Potsdam, the severity of its architectural lines contrasts with the baroque "excesses" of the most famous palace of Friedrich the Great, Sanssouci, located in the eastern part of the same park in Potsdam. Two postcards are masterfully painted with a skillful retoucher.

The postcards with views of Old Riga depict the stately Dome Cathedral and the Town Hall.

Familiarity with the original pictures of Paris as a cultural center of Europe can be continued by referring to the electronic catalog of the exhibition "Moscow - Paris, 1900-1930".

Currently, the Presidential Library portal features the complete set of postcards "Helsinki. Stockholm. Paris. Longjumeau. Copenhagen. Prague. Krakow. Poronin. Geneva” (1969).