Teresa Lubomirska, née Wodzicka, and Kazimierz Lubomirski

The photographic studio "Harris & Ewing" existed from 1905 to 1977. It was known for its official photographs of U.S. presidents, congressmen and cabinet secretaries. They had the exclusive right to photograph the head of state from the time of President Theodore Roosevelt to the time of President Dwight Eisenhower. After the closure of the photographic studio, its photographic and film archive of over 700,000 items is housed in the Library of Congress, in National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

The photograph presents (from left to right): Teresa Lubomirska, née Wodzicka (1883-1948), and her husband Kazimierz Lubomirski from the family line of  Przeworsk landowners. It is not known where the photo was taken- whether it was in the atelier, hotel or the headquarters of the Polish embassy in Washington. The photograph was strengthened by sticking it to a cardboard. In the bottom left corner, there is the name of the photographic studio- "Harris & Ewing", and in the bottom right corner, there is an inscription "Washington D.C.".

Prince Kazimierz Lubomirski (1869-1930) was the son of Jerzy Henryk Lubomirski, the first landowner of  Przeworsk, and Cecylia, née Zamoyska. He was also the grandson of the famous prince Henryk Lubomirski (1777-1850), who co-founded the Ossoliński National Institute in Lviv and the Museum of the Princes Lubomirski. Kazimierz Lubomirski had five siblings: Teresa Celestyna Radziwiłł (1856-1883), Elżbieta (1858-1859), Maria Tyszkiewicz (1860-1942) and Andrzej (1862-1953), the second ordinat of Przeworsk. He was born in Przeworsk in 1869. He studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and later he graduated from the Paris School of Political Science. In the years from 1919 to 1922, he was a deputy in the National Sejm (National Parliament) in Lviv, where he dealt with economic and communication matters. From 1918 to 1919, together with his brother, he sought help from the Red Cross for Lviv and for transporting the army of General Haller. From 1919 to 1922, he served as a Polish representative in Washington. He participated in the visit of the Romanian royal couple, King Ferdinand I and his wife Maria, on June 28, 1923.

It was him who bought the building for the Polish embassy for 160 thousand dollars and gave it to Poland for a symbolic one dollar. He was a member of the Polish Olympic Committee, and from 1923, he was also a member of the International Olympic Committee. Like his brother Andrzej, he was an excellent industrialist and businessman. In his investments, he focused on the forest industry. He died in 1930 in Cracow.

dr Łukasz Chrobak