Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski was a Polish nobleman and impoverished landowner, an economic and political theorist writing in French. He was the author in 1885 of a strikingly original economic bluep
Korwin Szymanowski, c. 1885
Theodore Korwin Szymanowski, c. 1890 – portrait in oil by his sister, Maria Szymanowska
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Congress Poland, or the Congress Kingdom of Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Na
Congress Poland in 1820
The Kingdom of Poland, 1815–1830
An advertisement of cameras made by a Polish company FOS (1905). Cameras, objectives and stereoscopes were exclusively made in Congress Poland.
An early photograph of Manufaktura in Łódź. The city was considered to be one of the largest textile industry centres in Europe and was nicknamed Polish Manchester.