Complete Set of Twenty World's Fair Souvenir Postcards from the Exhibition "The Glorious Days of the Polish-American Fraternity

[Kraków: Drukarnia Narodowa, 1939]. First Edition. Twenty color postcards all measuring 15x10.5cm or the inverse; all in Fine, postally unused condition. Explanatory text printed on versos in English and Polish. The set reproduces twenty of the artist's twenty-three miniature paintings commissioned by the Polish foreign office for the Polish pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. Each image, including portraits of George Washington and Woodrow Wilson, conveys "Polish-American connections...and contributions of Polish people in America" (Ansell, p. 101). The collection is comprised of the following pieces (in approximate chronological order, though (truncated) beginning with the lead painting, the portrait of George Washington):

1. "George Washington."
2. "Jan z Kolna."
3. "The Polish pioneers in Virginia in the 17-th Century."
4. "Olbracht Zaborowski (Zabriskie)."
5. "Karol Błaszkowicz."
6. "Tadeusz Kościuszko."
7. "Kościuszko constructing the fortifications of Saratoga."
8. "Felix Miklaszewicz."
9. "Jakub Sadowski."
10. "Kazimierz Pułaski."
11. "George Washington and Kazimierz Pułaski."
12. "George Washington and Casimir [sic] Pułaski after the battle near the Brandywine river."
13. "Pułaski mortally wounded in the battle of Savannah."
14. "The death of Michael Grabowski."
15. "Panna Maria, Tex. 1854."
16. Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski."
17. "Vladimir [sic] Krzyżanowski in the battle of Cross Keys."
18. "Ignacy Paderewski."
19. "Thomas Woodrow Wilson."
20. "Wilson and Paderewski."

Reference: Joseph P. Ansell, "Arthur Szyk: Artist, Jew, Pole" (2004), pp. 101-4. (Inventory #: 38584)