Materiały teledetekcyjne w zbiorach Archiwum Państwowego m.st. Warszawy
Remote Sensing Materials in the State Archives of the City of Warsaw

Summary/Abstract: The article is opened with an introduction focusing on the beginnings of aerial photography, i.e. the photos of the French village of Petit Pierce from 1855 and of Paris from 1858 taken by Felix Tournachon (Nadar) from an anchored balloon and also of Paris taken by Triboulet from a free-floating balloon in 1879 (non-extand and actually never printed from the negatives that have been destroyed). There is also a mention of aerial photographs of Warsaw by Polish, German, and Russian photographers taken in 1921-1945 and used in topography; mention is made of Polish institutions that dealt with taking them, such as FOTOLOT (Aerophotogrametric Department of the LOT Polish Airlines, established in 1930). The article focuses on remote sensing materials kept at the State Archives of the City of Warsaw (the following sets of files: Collection of Remote Sensing Materials and The Office of the Reconstruction of Warsaw) including the following: – ‘WIDOK MIASTA WARSZAWY z wysokości 200 sążni’ (‘VIEW OF THE CITY OF WARSAW seen from the height of 200 fathoms’) from a balloon, by Adam Lerue and Julian Cegliński, lithograph from 1853 (fi g. 2); – Over 300 glass negatives (13 × 18 cm) of the aerial photographs of Warsaw from 1926 (fig. 3) executed in relation to the non-extend photomap ‘An Overall Plan of the Building Development of the City of Warsaw’. The scarcity of negatives does not allow to recreate the Plan; – ‘WARSZAWA’ photomap (1:2500) from 1935 (fig. 4) elaborated by FOTOLOT and covering the capital without the suburbs (50 sheets stuck onto aluminum sheets); – ‘REGION WARSZAWSKI’ (‘the Region of Warsaw’) photomap (1:10000) from 1934 and 1936 (fi g. 5), also elaborated by FOTOLOT and covering Warsaw with its surroundings (incomplete); – ‘BILDPLAN WARSCHAU’, photomap of Warsaw (1:10000) from September 24, 1939 (fi g. 7) made by the Luftwaffe (10 sheets, 30 × 47 cm); – ‘WARSCHAU’ photomap (1:12500) from the first decade of September of 1939; also made by the Luftwaffe (incomplete, 7 sheets, 50 × 50 cm); – Photomap of the Okęcie Airport in Warsaw (1:10000) from September 4, 1939, also made by the Luftwaffe; – ‘WARSZAWA’ photomap (1:2500) from 1945 or 1946 (fig. 6) made after the aerial photographs of the Soviet Red Army (104 sheets), showing the post-World War II destruction of Warsaw; – Praga (the right Vistula bank district of Warsaw; 1:2500) from July 1947 (11 sheets, 48 × 54 cm). The article concludes with the information on the panorama of Warsaw from the top of the Palace of Culture and Science, taken with a digital camera and computerised by Marek Ostrowski in August-September 2000.

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