The picture shows one of the most popular motifs of Lviv photographers of all time, Mariacka Square, the second most important Lviv square after Rynok Square. Since December 1944, it has been named in honor of the iconic Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, whose monument has been standing in the center of the square since 1904.

In the center of the photo is the Sprecher tenement house, building No. 8, built in 1914-1921 according to the design of the famous Lviv architect Ferdinand Kassler on the order of the merchant Jona Sprecher and was considered the first high-rise building (skyscraper) in Lviv. In the left part of the ground floor is the Philips store with the sign "Philips Radio Light Exhibition".

On the right is a fragment of building No. 11 on the corner of Mariacka and Halytska Squares, 1-3, as well as the portal fashionable and extremely popular store "Gabriel Stark". After World War II, until the end of the 1950s, a consignment department store was located here; from the main entrance, which is visible in the picture, a staircase led to the sales halls on the second floor. Since the department store was liquidated, the building has been used as a residence, and some of its interior items (decorative multi-colored porcelain vases with relief images of the Kremlin and leader Stalin; massive alabaster lamps in the form of elephants, etc.) could be seen in various shops in the central part of Lviv for many years.

The paved square is crossed by a tram track, and it is the presence of cars of route No. 15 in the picture that makes it possible to date the photograph. This route existed in 1928-1930. It is interesting to list its points: the double terminus of the direct and return directions was located near the Main Station, from where the tram departed to the city center along Na Baikah Street (now Kyivska Street) - Pelchynska (Vitovskogo Street) - Zyblikevycha - Panska Street (both streets became part of I. Franko Street in Soviet times), crossed Mariatska Square, Hetmanska Street (right side of Svobody Avenue), near the City Theater (Opera) turned onto Kazimierzowska Street (now part of Horodotska Street) and went up Horodotska Street to the station. The route used double trams manufactured by the Sanok Carriage Factory.