1930
gelatin silver print, 22.2 x 29.8 cm (23.8 x 29.8 cm),
artist`s stamp with hand-written annotation "Dębki. Rzeka Piaśnica 1930" on the reverse,
vintage print

The photograph was taken near the Polish-German border, on the mouth of the Piaśnica river to the Baltic Sea, near Dębki. The settlement was a popular resort, offering patriotic outings to
the state border as one of its major tourist attractions. The border was delimited by granite posts, which would be later knocked over by the German troops invading Poland in 1939. The picture was taken during one of Poddębski`s trips across Poland in the 1930s. Poddębski and Mieczysław Orłowicz, a geographer and sightseer, gathered material for what would become the earliest tourist guidebooks to the regions of Poland.