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

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

RG-1853

Processed by Rivka Schiller

Finding aid edited, encoded and posted online thanks to a grant from the Gruss Lipper Family Foundation.

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Center for Jewish History

15 West 16th Street

New York, NY 10011

Phone: (212) 246-6080

Fax: (212) 292-1892

Email: archives@yivo.cjh.org

URL: http://www.yivoinstitute.org

© 2008 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. All rights reserved.

Center for Jewish History, Publisher.

Electronic finding aid was encoded in EAD 2002 by Rachel Miller in December 2008. Description is in English. Access points added by Rachel Miller in 2012.

Descriptive Summary
Creator:	Evgenii Lendon
Title:	Evgenii Lendon Collection
Dates:	1890s-1930s, 1987-1991, 1994
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.
Languages:	English and Russian annotations are on the backs of the photographs. Signs and posters in the photographs are in Yiddish and Polish.
Quantity:	1.1 linear feet
Identification:	RG-1853
Repository:	YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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Biographical 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.

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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.

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Restrictions

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions on this collection.

For more information, contact:
Chief Archivist YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, 10011
email: archives@yivo.cjh.org

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Places:
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Document Types:
- Photographs

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Container List

Series I: Evgenii Lendon Collection, 1890s-1930s, 1987-1991, 1994.
In Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and English.
1.1 linear feet.
Folder	Title	Date
1	Street view	undated
Folder	Title	Date
2	Zakatna Street, [district] II Zolkiewskie. Jews in the street. Stamp of the L'viv State Historical Museum.	undated
Folder	Title	Date
3	Old Jewish neighborhood	undated
Folder	Title	Date
4	Funeral chapel at the Jewish cemetery. Inscription: Beis mo’ed lekol ha’khai	undated
Folder	Title	Date
5	Group advertising on a horse-drawn platform: Cech Czapkarzy i Kapelusznikow we Lwowie (Guild of Cap and Hatmakers in Lwów)	undated
Folder	Title	Date
6	Group advertising on a horse-drawn platform: Cech Czapkarzy i Kapelusznikow we Lwowie (Guild of Cap and Hatmakers in Lwów)	undated
Folder	Title	Date
7	A burnt-out synagogue	undated
Folder	Title	Date
8	Old Jewish neighborhood	undated
Folder	Title	Date
9	Old Jewish neighborhood	undated
Folder	Title	Date
10	Old Jewish neighborhood	undated
Folder	Title	Date
11	A burnt-out synagogue	undated
Folder	Title	Date
12	A burnt-out synagogue	undated
Folder	Title	Date
13	A burnt-out synagogue	undated
Folder	Title	Date
14	[A synagogue]	undated
Folder	Title	Date
15	[A synagogue]	undated
Folder	Title	Date
16	Old Jewish neighborhood	undated
Folder	Title	Date
17	Yiddish posters on the street post	undated
Folder	Title	Date
18	Street scene	undated
Folder	Title	Date
19	[A synagogue]	undated
Folder	Title	Date
20	Jewish Hospital, Rappaport Street	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
21	Street stalls, Yiddish signs	undated
Folder	Title	Date
22	Jewish stores in a Lwów suburb	undated
Folder	Title	Date
23	Piekarska Street, a crowd of Poles and a Jew in their midst	undated
Folder	Title	Date
24	Guild of cap- and hatmakers	undated
Folder	Title	Date
25	Corner of Krakowska and Ormianska Streets	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
26	A burnt-out synagogue	undated
Folder	Title	Date
27	Templum Synagogue	undated
Folder	Title	Date
28	Jewish Hospital, Rappaport Street	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
29	Market Square	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
30	A street	undated
Folder	Title	Date
31	Corner, Sykstuska and Legionow Streets	1890s-1920s
Folder	Title	Date
32	Legionow Street, a Marine League (Liga Morska) parade	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
33	[Legionow Street, a Marine League (Liga Morska) parade]	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
34	Krakowska Street and Goluchowski Square with Yiddish sign	undated
Folder	Title	Date
35	Jewish stores in a Lwów suburb	undated
Folder	Title	Date
36	Old Jewish neighborhood	1900s-1920s
Folder	Title	Date
37	Boznica (Synagogue) Street, Old Synagogue	undated
Folder	Title	Date
38	Funeral chapel at the Jewish cemetery. Inscription: Beis mo’ed lekol ha’khai	undated
Folder	Title	Date
39	Funeral chapel at the Jewish cemetery. Inscription: Beis mo’ed lekol ha’khai	undated
Folder	Title	Date
40	Funeral chapel at the Jewish cemetery. Inscription: Beis mo’ed lekol ha’khai	undated
Folder	Title	Date
41	Funeral chapel at the Jewish cemetery. Inscription: Beis mo’ed lekol ha’khai	undated
Folder	Title	Date
42	Templum Synagogue	undated
Folder	Title	Date
43	Akademicka Street	undated
Folder	Title	Date
44	Street market	undated
Folder	Title	Date
45	Krakowska Street and Goluchowski Square	undated
Folder	Title	Date
46	Group photo	undated
Folder	Title	Date
47	Aleksander Fredro Monument	undated
Folder	Title	Date
48	Palace of Art	undated
Folder	Title	Date
49	Singer Jan Kiepura	1927
Folder	Title	Date
50	Krakowska Street market	1900s
Folder	Title	Date
51	Karol Ludwik Street	1900s
Folder	Title	Date
52	Akademicka Street	undated
Folder	Title	Date
53	Eastern Fair (Targi Wschodnie)	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
54	Ambulance Society	undated
Folder	Title	Date
55	Ksiezna Gora (Prince Mount)	undated
Folder	Title	Date
56	Hunting Society (Kurkowe Towarzystwo)	undated
Folder	Title	Date
57	Halicka Street	undated
Folder	Title	Date
58	Advertising local beer	undated
Folder	Title	Date
59	King Jan Sobieski Monument	undated
Folder	Title	Date
60	Galician Parliament(Sejm)	1900s
Folder	Title	Date
61	City Park	undated
Folder	Title	Date
62	Legionow Street	undated
Folder	Title	Date
63	Eastern Fair	undated
Folder	Title	Date
64	Jan Sobieski Monument	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
65	Jan Sobieski monument at the Hetman Embankment (Waly Hetmanskie)	undated
Folder	Title	Date
66	Grodziecka Street	undated
Folder	Title	Date
67	Jan Sobieski monument at the Hetman Embankment (Waly Hetmanskie)	undated
Folder	Title	Date
68	Akademicka Street	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
69	Marjacki Square	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
70	Marketplace	undated
Folder	Title	Date
71	Halicka Street	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
72	10 Teatralna Street, Café “Sztuka” (Art)	undated
Folder	Title	Date
73	A street	undated
Folder	Title	Date
74	Marjacki Square	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
75	Sausages advertised	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
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	Title	Date
77	Teatralna Street	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
78	114 Market Square	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
79	Castle Hill (Gora Zamkowa)	undated
Folder	Title	Date
80	Intersection of Karol Ludwik and Kopernik streets	undated
Folder	Title	Date
81	Halicki Square	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
82	Decoration “ruins” of a castle in the Stryjski Park	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
83	Lwów Railroad Station	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
84	May 11th Street	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
85	Strzelecki Square in Podwale, the fire station	undated
Folder	Title	Date
86	Armenian Church on Ormianska (Armenian) Street	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
87	St. Bernard (Bernardynski) Church	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
88	Cemetery of the Defenders (Cmentarz Obroncow)	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
89	St. Elizabeth Church	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
90	Tearing off sheet iron from the rooftop of the Cathedral Church for the needs of the Austrian army	1916
Folder	Title	Date
91	St. Elizabeth Church	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
92	St. Elizabeth Church, inauguration	1912
Folder	Title	Date
93	Cemetery of the Defenders	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
94	St. Elizabeth Church	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
95	Church of the Virgin Mary, inauguration	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
96	St. Elizabeth Church	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
97	St. Bernard Church	undated
Folder	Title	Date
98	Church of St. Madeleine (Magdalena)	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
99	Monument to Count Agenor Goluchowski	undated
Folder	Title	Date
100	Karol Ludwik Street	1900s
Folder	Title	Date
101	Marjacki Square	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
102	Akademicka Street	undated
Folder	Title	Date
103	10th Jubilee Eastern Fair	1930 September 2
Folder	Title	Date
104	Halicki Square	1894
Folder	Title	Date
105	Ignace Jan Paderewski honored at City Hall	undated
Folder	Title	Date
106	Street advertisement for the chocolate factory “Branka” (Wedel)	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
107	President Wojciechowski visiting the St. Yur Basilica	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
108	Wladyslaw Mickiewicz, son of the poet Adam Mickiewicz	1900s
Folder	Title	Date
109	Lyczakowski cemetery	1900s
Folder	Title	Date
110	Podwale	1894
Folder	Title	Date
111	Church on Zamarstynowska Street	undated
Folder	Title	Date
112	Lyczakowski cemetery	1900s
Folder	Title	Date
113	Dominican Church	undated
Folder	Title	Date
114	Zamarstynowska Street	undated
Folder	Title	Date
115	Marjacki Square	1900s
Folder	Title	Date
116	Corner of Sykstuska and Karol Ludwik Streets	1894
Folder	Title	Date
117	Zbozowy Square	1894
Folder	Title	Date
119	Arts Palace, Stryjski Park	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
120	St. Elizabeth Church	1912
Folder	Title	Date
121	St. Elizabeth Church	1912
Folder	Title	Date
122	Marjacki Square, a parade	1900s
Folder	Title	Date
123	Eastern Fair	undated
Folder	Title	Date
124	Karol Ludwik Street and Hetman Embankment	1910s
Folder	Title	Date
125	Halicka Street	1894
Folder	Title	Date
126	Hetmanska Street	1909
Folder	Title	Date
127	Arc built in 1888 in honor of the Emperor Franz-Joseph’s visit to Lwów	undated
Folder	Title	Date
128	A bakery on Bem Street	undated
Folder	Title	Date
129	The Falcon Monument	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
130	A building being renovated on Market Square	1910s
Folder	Title	Date
131	Casino de-Paris, Rejtana Street	undated
Folder	Title	Date
132	Trybunalski Square	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
133	A salon for the well-to-do	undated
Folder	Title	Date
134	Waly Hetmanskie (Hetman Enbankment)	undated
Folder	Title	Date
135	Tableau [Industrial Society of Butchers and Soapmakers]	1926
Folder	Title	Date
136	Waly Hetmanskie	1920s
Folder	Title	Date
138	A meeting in front of the Grand Theater (Teatr Wielki)	1910s
Folder	Title	Date
139	Market Square	undated
Folder	Title	Date
140	Halicka Street	1930s
Folder	Title	Date
141	Jewish Hospital, Rapaporta Street	undated
Folder	Title	Date
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	Title	Date
143	Inauguration of the Land Exhibition	1906
Folder	Title	Date
144	Entrance to the Historical Museum, Market Square (which holds the glass negatives of the prints in this collection)	1948
Folder	Title	Date
145	[Jewish cemetery] Monument “to the memory of the victims of the Hitlerist murderers,” in Yiddish and in Russian
Folder	Title	Date
146	Street view w/ burned-out building	undated
Folder	Title	Date
147	L'viv prison, Gorodskaia Street	1994

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

Processed by Rivka Schiller

Finding aid edited, encoded and posted online thanks to a grant from the Gruss Lipper Family Foundation.

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Center for Jewish History

15 West 16th Street

New York, NY 10011

Phone: (212) 246-6080

Fax: (212) 292-1892

Email: archives@yivo.cjh.org

URL: http://www.yivoinstitute.org

© 2008 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. All rights reserved.

Center for Jewish History, Publisher.

Electronic finding aid was encoded in EAD 2002 by Rachel Miller in December 2008. Description is in English. Access points added by Rachel Miller in 2012.

Use Restrictions

Places:

Document Types:

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

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

RG-1853