Cabinet photograph of the Maybaums (Marzynskis)

The cabinet portrait of four people, from the left in sequence: Stanisław Marzyński (about ten years old), NN (presented in the signature as a doctor), Józef Maybaum (Marzyński), Stefania née Grossman Maybaum (Marzyńska). The photograph was taken in the spa town of Opatija, according to the present-day Croatian name of the town (it means abbey, which of course is related to the history of the area, Benedictine, dating back to the 15th century); before World War I the town was officially called in Italian: Abbazia; it was a very fashionable Austro-Hungarian resort (in the interwar period Abbazia was within the borders of Italy, after World War II - Yugoslavia; after its break-up in the 1990s. - within the borders of Croatia). The company imprint on the reverse shows a sequence of numbers: 1914 - as one might think, this is not part of the address but a date. Even if it was the date of establishment of the atelier, it could also be considered the date when the photograph was taken. It is hard to think that the Marzyńskis went to Opatija later during the war, and after 1918 such stylized photographs began to fall out of fashion; however, the key to dating is the age of the child: Stanislaw is no less than ten years old in the photograph and certainly not a dozen (he was born in 1904). | Caption: Ziutka with her husband - handwritten by Agnieszka Wróblewska, suggested by the signature I in the original description of the photo and by the name Józek, which was also given to the husband of Halina (Ziuta) Baruch - is incorrect. | PK