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Postcard 1910s Tatry Wodospad Mickiewicza Waterfall Tatra Poland Podhale
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Pre-linen · 1912

Postcard 1910s Tatry Wodospad Mickiewicza Waterfall Tatra Poland Podhale

Tatra Mountains, Poland (Zakopane region)1912Pre-linenGood

A torrent of white water thunders through a narrow rock gorge in the Tatra Mountains, the mist-shrouded cliffs pressing close on either side as gnarled tree roots cling to the foreground — this is Wodospad Mickiewicza, the Mickiewicz Waterfall, named for Poland's beloved Romantic poet Adam, captured here in a richly atmospheric sepia photographic print that evokes the sublime grandeur the Young Poland movement found in these peaks. Published by the Wydawnictwo Artystycznych Reprodukcyi "Podhale" house in Zakopane — the mountain resort town that served as the spiritual capital of Polish artistic life in the early twentieth century — this card belongs to a collector series that documented Tatra scenery for a patriotic audience hungry for national landscapes during the partition era. The faint cursive inscription in the lower-right corner of the image identifies the photographer, whose careful long-exposure technique blurs the falling water into a silken veil against the dark, moss-covered stone.

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PC-01958 · Wydawnictwo Artystycznych Reprodukcyi "Podhale," Zakopane
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