Sports poster - Inter-district competition for the championship of Poland K.S. Strzelec-Górka
1939
National Museum in Lublin
Part of the collection: Posters from Lublin from the Interwar Period
In June 1939, the Lublin, Zamość and Lublin Region Days’ took place. The series of events intended to promote the Lublin region, although abounding in various attractions, did not meet with as great a response as the organisers had anticipated. The approaching spectre of armed conflict hindered many plans. Nevertheless, in the capital of the Lublin Voivodeship, on the courts of the ‘Unia’ Military Sports Club in Peowiaków Street, a tennis tournament for the championship of Lublin was organised.
The event was advertised on posters informing about the dates of the day's competition, in which athletes from Warsaw, Kraków, Lviv and other Polish cities, including those in Silesia, were to take part. A ticket for the stands cost 99 groszy, while for young people it was 45 groszy. The performances of the ‘best rackets’, as advertised on the posters, began on Friday afternoon, 9 June, and were to last for three days.
The posters, printed on green paper, were produced by Józefat Pietrzykowski's former printing works at 4 Kościuszki Street, run at the time by Stanisław Pietrzykowski, the late owner's son. Stanisław modernised the plant by importing modern machinery. In addition to technical care, he provided his customers with a neat graphic design, which even adorned the sports posters.
‘Unia’, which provided the courts, was the oldest sports club in the city, operating since 1921. In its colours, in the Tennis Section, Jan Arnsztajn played. He was the son of the famous poet Franciszka Arnsztajn, née Meyerson Arnsztajn, a former military man, satirist and doctor, who died prematurely of tuberculosis in 1934.
The WKS maintained its historical continuity. After the Second World War it began to operate under the name ‘Lublinianka’, and years later it was transformed into a civil partnership.
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cały obiekt: height: 47,5 cm, width: 63,5 cm
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occasional print
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paper
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The National Museum in Lublin
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1939
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1939
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1939
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