Kwestia zbiorów ikonograficznych Coppernicus-Verein für Wissenschaft und Kunst oraz Städtisches Museum (Muzeum Miejskiego) w Toruniu
The issue of the Coppernicus-Verein für Wissenschaft und Kunst iconographic collections and the Städtisches Museum (City Museum) in Toruń

Summary/Abstract: The text concerns a group of photographs, currently in the Special Collections Department of the Provincial Public Library - Copernican Library in Toruń (WBP-KK), associated with the German scientific society (CoppernicusVerein für Wissenschaft und Kunst) operating in the city in the second half of the 19th century. The source analysis has allowed to state that the library today contains the remains of two collections related to the German association: the Coppernicus-Verein iconographic collection and the archives of monuments, established at the City Museum in Toruń (Städtisches Museum) in 1896. The article describes the above two groups of photographs, outlining the context of the creation of the photographic archives of monuments in German museums in the second half of the19th century and at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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