Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...
Located in Central Europe, Poland is a country marked by times of independence, of being split up, or of foreign rule. It emerged as a powerful kingdom in the 900s and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonweal...