Vilna Governorate
Division of the Land of Israel Within its Borders: Copied from the Great Luminary, the Famous and Pious Gaon, Our Teacher and Rabbi, Rabbi Eliyahu from Vilna, the Capital, c. 1800-1820
Part of the National Library of Israel Collection.
General Map of Vilnius Province: Showing Postal and Major Roads, Stations and the Distance in Versts between Them.
Part of the larger work "Geograficheskoĭ atlasʺ Rossiĭskoĭ Imperii, T︠S︡arstva Polʹskago i Velikago kni︠a︡zhestva Finli︠a︡ndskago".
Vilna - General View of the city, 1915
Part of George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Vilna - Section across the river, 1912
Photograph from the collection of Sergeĭ Prokudin-Gorskiĭ (1863-1944). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Old Jewish cemetery, Vilna, 1922
Frank Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress.
Papershop in Jewish ghetto, Vilna, 1922
Frank Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress.
Favus Patients and Their Caregivers in a Jewish Treatment Center Isolation Ward in Vilna, 1921.
The physician (standing, rear right) treating the children has been identified as Mahmud Kajabi.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a humanitarian organization created at the start of World War I by American Jewish groups to provide wartime relief to Jewish communities, continued its work after the war, including support for the establishment of Jewish hospitals, child care institutions, food distribution stations, and other institutions throughout Poland, including this treatment center in Vilna.
[Jewish water carrier standing in street in Vilna], 1922.
Frank Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress.
Sirota, Cantor of Warsaw & Leo Loev, Sec'y
Photo shows cantor Gershon-Itskhok Sirota (1874-1943) known as the "Jewish Caruso", who was chief cantor of Vilna and the Great Synagogue in Warsaw. He died in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
Part of George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).