The Polish Post Office and the State Archives in Łódź invite you to an exhibition of archival Easter postcards.
With Easter approaching, the Polish Post Office Network Region in Łódź and the State Archives in Łódź have prepared an exhibition called "Easter Postcards." We invite you to the Łódź 1 Post Office at 38 Tuwima Street.
Together with the State Archives in Łódź, the Polish Post Office has prepared a unique exhibition of Easter postcards. Easter cards are an important element in Polish Easter traditions. They gained popularity in the late 19th century, first in Western Europe and later in Poland. They were an opportunity to send wishes and greetings, and in the pre-holiday period, a way to commemorate loved ones and friends. They featured colorful graphics, and eventually photographs, alluding to popular holiday themes. In addition to wishes expressed through "Happy Alleluia" and "Merry Christmas," they also presented folk ways of celebrating the holiday, images of traditional holiday dishes, and animals associated with Easter – chicks, bunnies, and lambs. The most frequently displayed motifs were Easter eggs and catkins, which appear on trees with the arrival of spring.
The exhibition consists of 46 archival and 9 contemporary postcards. The archival postcards come from the collection of family and estate archives: the Potocki and Ostrowski Archives from Maluszyn, as well as private archives and legacies held at the Academy of Łódź University of Technology, including the Archives of the Bartoszewicz family, Professor Emil Stanisław Rappaport, the Biedermann family, Professor Dr. Tadeusz Hilarowicz, and Anatol Gupień.
The group of publishers of the presented cards included the Krakow-based Publishing House of the Salon of Polish Painters and the Polish Cards Publishing House, Warsaw-based Aristique and the FK Ziółkowski Graphic Works, as well as the Ruch Publishing Office and the National Publishing Agency.
The authors of the projects were well-known and respected Polish painters, graphic designers and photographers: Anna Gramatyka-Ostrowska, Jan Czarnecki, Marta Orłowska-Gabryś, Tadeusz Biliński, Jan Marcin Szancer and Krystyna Tarkowska.
The exhibition will be on display until April 15, 2022 at the Łódź 1 Post Office, at 38 Tuwima Street in Łódź .