The objective of this paper was to make a special set of photographs of the former Polish Eastern Borderlands available to the public. Those photographs belong to a private collection of Mr. Ignacy Rabczuk, As. Prof., M. Sc., Engineer; he took all the photographs in the interwar period. The author of this photo portfolio was a graduate of the Lviv Technical University. He studied from 1927 to 1934 and completed the Faculty of Civil and Water Engineering, Department of Surveying. As a licensed geodesist, he started his professional activity in the Institute of Applied Geophysics of the ”Pionier” Company in Lviv. Then, he was employed with the Treasury Chamber in Brześć on the Bug River, at the beginning as a county, and, then, as a provincial (voivodship) surveyor in the field of soil classification in the Polesie Province. As soon as he accomplished all the tasks appointed to him, the Treasury Chamber sent him to a town called Navahrudak (or Novgorodok or Novogrudok), to the Branch Office of the Chamber. Here, he had the same position. His duties involved supervising land surveying projects, collecting and updating maps, and developing photoplans. By the end of 1938, the Treasury Chamber moved him ...
