Pre-war History of AGH UST in Photographs


Some selected pictures from the jubilee album "50 Years of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Photographs" and the album "75 Years of the Stanislaw Staszic AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow"
This material is part of the presentation by Professor Stanislaw Majewski "AGH UST in Photographs - 1999" The photographs presented below are in possession of the AGH-UST Centre of the History of Technology





A papyrean page with the signature of Jozef Pilsudski

The Mining College in Freiberg - the main building

A Certificate of Completion of Studies at the Mining College in Schemnitz in 1847

A group of Polish students at the Mining College in Loeben (1895)

Marian Czechowski's Student's ID (Loeben, 1904)

Lis - a major from Loeben

Members of the Fencing Club from Loeben (1907)

The beginnings of endeavours to establish a Polish mining college

First headquarters of the Mining College
The building at 18 Loretanska Street

The building at 7 Smolensk Street,
used by the Mining College in the 1920s and 1930s

Student's Book of Registration of Courses (number 1) of the Mining College in Krakow

Students of the Mining College at geodetic workshops in the "Boleslaw" Ore Mine (1921)
   
The ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the main building of the Mining College at 30 Mickiewicz Avenue took place on 15 June 1923
 University Authorities in 1927 (from the left: J. Krauze, Dean of the Mining Department, E. Chrominski, Rector of the Mining College, Professor K. Lowinski, Dean of the Metallurgical Department, and Professor S. Skoczylas)
A building temporarily rented at Krzemionki by the city authorities

The corridor in the building of the Mining College at Krzemionki served as the pattern room in the 1930s
From the left: Professor W. Budryk and T. Lasek, an assistant

Lecture room at Krzemionki in the 1930s

Students at the Institute of Metallography at Krzemionki
Academic year 1926/27

Laboratory-studying stands in the Department of the Theory of Machines I from the 1920s

The inside of the Electrical Engineering hall at Krzemionki
On the right: Professor J. Studniarski

A dwelling house used by professors of the Mining College at 7 Gramatyka Street

The building of the Mechanical Laboratory of the Mining College built in the years 1927-1928 (at 7 Reymonta Street) and the main college building in the background

A practice room of the Department of the Theory of Machines I
In the background: Professor J. Krauze.

The machine hall inside the laboratory building (1928)


The inside of the Second Hall of the Theory of Machines at 7 Reymonta Street
(pre-war condition)

              
Successive phases of the construction of the main building of the Mining College in the 1920s


The main building of the Mining College after completion of facade works with the statue of St. Barbara at the top (destroyed during German occupation)

A foot-path in the training mine in the main building of the Mining College

The team of professors and employees of the Mining College in front of the newly constructed main building of the Mining College

The main building hall of the Mining College in 1938

The College Senate room of the Mining College (pre-war condition)

Rector's Office in the main building of the Mining College before World War II

The General Geodesy room (pre-war condition)
 Life-saving practice room at the Department of Mining I (pre-war condition)

Practice room at the Drilling Department
In the background: Professor Z. Saryusz-Bielski

Life-saving practice room at the Department of Mining I
Pre-war condition

Practice room at the Department of Mining Metrology and Geodesy

"Rector's Gold Chain", later stolen by German occupants

Marta Suchanek - the first female-student of the Mining College

Thesis defence of Marta Suchanek, the first graduate female-student of the Mining College on 23 June, 1936