Metadata: Collection of Photos and Negatives
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- State Archive in Košice
- Holding institution (official language):
- Štátny archív v Košiciach
- Postal address:
- Bačíkova 1, Košice, 041 56
- Phone number:
- 00421 55 622 24 15
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.ke@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 12259
- Title:
- Collection of Photos and Negatives
- Title (official language):
- Zbierka fotografií a fotonegatívov
- Creator/accumulator:
- State Archive of Košice
- Date(s):
- 1873/2000
- Extent:
- 14 000 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains photos of many aspects of life. The life of the Jewish community and inhabitants of Košice is captured in several photographs. From 1929, there is a photo of the Jewish Elementary School in Košice with teacher Armin Eckstein. From 1930, there is a photo of the Košice Orthodox Synagogue in the Mojzesova Street. A photo of Dr. Jozef Polák, the Director of the East Slovak Museum in Košice, capturing him with journalists at the archaeological finds in the environs of Košíc, was taken around 1930. Dr. Jozef Polák (3 February 1886, Prague - 1944 Oświencim-Brzezinka, Poland) was a museologist, art historian and the director of the East Slovak Museum in Košice. Dr. Polák is also captured in other photographs - in a picture from 1935 with graphic artist Karel Vik from Turnov and in a separate photo. From 1932, there is an aerial view of the premises of the Jewish sacral buildings in Košice on the corner of the Moyzesová and Grešáková Streets and 20 reproduced copies of photos of outstanding Jewish citizens of Košice. From 1935, there is a photo of the synagogue in the Puškinova Street in Košice. Photographs of a Jewish ball in Košice have been preserved from 1936 and 1937. From 1940, there is a photograph of the Jewish wedding of K. Fehér and N. Spirová from Košice. From the post-war period, there is a photograph of Eugen Kron, a graphic designer, who was the founder of the Kron Graphic School (born in 1882 in Sobrance, died in 1974 in Italy).
- Archival history:
- The collection began to grow with the establishment of the Archives in 1954. The number of photographs was steadily increasing. The collection was processed in 2002-2004. The finding aid was created in 2004. Since then, additional photos have been added to the collection, so the fonds also includes an unprocessed part.
- Access points: locations:
- Košice
- Access points: persons/families:
- Eckstein, Armin
- Fehér, K
- Kron, Eugen
- Polák, Jozef
- Spirová, N
- Vik, Karel
- System of arrangement:
- The photos are arranged and divided into 17 main thematic sections which are further broken down into the fields of state administration, culture, sports, industry, commerce, politics and religion. The entire collection contains 16,478 photos and 16 negatives.
- Access, restrictions:
- Partly available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Eliáš, Štefan: Zbierka fotografií, I. a II. zväzok. Čiastkový inventár, 2002 – 2004.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18
