Figure 1.--This Austrian-Hungarian Boy was from Lwowie / Lemberg. German and Austrian-Hungarian boys boys still commonly wore long trousers in the 1860s and 70s. This CDV shows a boy about 10 years old. He looks to be wearihg a velvet jacket with colored piping. He sa a very narrow boe. We can see his short. Note his jacket does not match his trousers. We are unsure about the hosiery. He has longish hair, but not over the ears. The cropped hair common at the end of the century was not yet popular.

This Austrian-Hungarian Boy was from Lwowie / Lemberg. German and Austrian-Hungarian boys boys still commonly wore long trousers in the 1860s and 70s. This CDV shows a boy about 10 years old. He looks to be wearihg a velvet jacket with colored piping. He sa a very narrow boe. We can see his short. Note his jacket does not match his trousers. We are unsure about the hosiery. He has longish hair, but not over the ears. The cropped hair common at the end of the century was not yet popular. The ethnic aspect of this portrait is interesting. The boy was a Austrian-Hungarian citizen, but we are unsure about his ethnicity. The photographer was S. Rosenbach, possibly Jewish. The back of the card identifies the city as Lwowie / Lemberg. The Polish name of that city is Lwów. Slavonic languages often add certain endings to a word. It depends how it is used, that's why we see Lwowie (or Lwowic). Lemberg is the Austrian (German-language name.) The city had a largely Polish population with a sizable Austrian and Jewish population. I assume there were also Ukranians. As a result we are unsure about this boy's ethnicity. He could be German, Polish, or Ukranian. The CDV had back printed in German and Polish. It says "Die Platte wird zu Nachbestellungen aufbewahrt". That means: "The plate will be kept for additional orders". And then some text in Polish (that I don't know). I assume the same as in German. After World War I and Polish victories against the Red Army, the city became part of the new revived Poland. After the NAZI-Soviet Non Agression Pact and joint NAZI-Soviet invasion of Poland, the city was annexed by the Soviet Union (1939). The city was taken by the NAZIs (1941). It was liberated by the Soiviets (1944). It was reannexed to the Soviet Union (1945). Poland was essentially moved west by the Soviets and compensanted with German territory. The city now belongs to the Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Empire.