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The monograph is devoted to the history of Jewish photographers and photo studios in Lviv in the years 1850-1939. To this day, there are few basic materials and documents on this topic. However, the art collections of Lviv's museums, as well as an array of photographs of Jewish (and other) subjects scattered throughout museum, library, and private collections, provide scholars (and others) with opportunities to develop research on this topic and learn new facts about this page in history. Photography has long since acquired the status of a significant historical and cultural source. The photographs in this book are primarily an informative retelling of the life of Lviv residents in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."

The recovered photographs by famous and unknown photographers (professionals and amateurs) reflect changes in city life, elections to self-government bodies, patriotic and protest demonstrations, and the construction of cultural, industrial, and public facilities important to the city. Photography did not ignore cultural and artistic events, the emergence of technical innovations, the formation of the first sports clubs, and at the same time, all the everyday life that interested the citizens: disasters and the destruction of buildings, fires and floods, criminal chronicles and high-profile trials. It is important to bring back the names that were once known and are now completely unknown, because almost all of these photographers and their families, with a few exceptions, perished during the Holocaust, the mass extermination of the Jewish population of Lviv.