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Thanks Art Siegel for the location of this image. We will add more details when we update the description.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasi%C5%84ski_Square

A tinted version of the postcard original of this photo is in the LOC collection: www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.03915/ described as follows: "Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905."

thanks for the links. We'll update the record.

The proper name of this square is Plac Krasinskich.

KRA+ not KAR

If it's not obvious (and even if it is), the sign says "drinking water."

Ein Schild mit der Aufschrift Trinkwasser. Not a sanitary sign, we'd had marked that with a 'red' cross.

Great!

"Despite the air of impending crisis preceding World War I, the city grew constantly until 1914. By that year it had become one of the most densely-populated industrial cities in the world—13,280 inhabitants per square kilometre (34,400 /sq mi). A major battle was fought near the city in late 1914, and as a result the city came under German occupation after 6 December ." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA

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