Polish kayak in Shanghai

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849

Poland

Black Sea

Istanbul (Turkey)

Baghdad (Iraq)

Asia

Red Sea

Karachi (Pakistan)

India

Jak powstał marsz żałobny Chopina

Kajakiem z Polski do Szanghaju [Polska, Morze Czarne, Konstantynopol, Bagdad, Azyja, Morze Czerwone, Karachi (początek Indji)]

100-lecie pierwszej polskiej szkoły i książki w Ameryce.

How Chopin's Funeral March came into being

In a kayak from Poland to Shanghai [Poland, Black Sea, Constantinople, Bagdad, Asia, Red Sea, Karachi (beginning of India)]

100th anniversary of the first Polish school and book in America.

A Polish newspaper page from March 1936 containing a collection of illustrated panels. The top left illustration shows people in a room around a piano, labeled as related to Chopin’s funeral march. To the right, there is a map of East Asia showing locations such as Japan, Shanghai, and surrounding regions. The bottom left panel depicts a classroom scene with a teacher and students, marked with the year 1835, referencing the anniversary of the first Polish school and bookstore in America. The bottom right illustration shows a ship with a banner about travel from Poland to Shanghai.

Archacki, Henry, 1907-1998

State University of New York at Buffalo

Dziennik dia Wszystkich = Everybody's Daily

1933

University Libraries. Polish Room

University Libraries. Arts & Sciences Libraries.

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