The photograph shows a horse and three people harnessed to a plow. Behind the horse the plow is pulled by two women and a man. People bend under the weight of work. Women are dressed in embroidered blouses, long skirts, aprons and scarves tied under the chin. The man is wearing a embroidered shirt, trousers and a cap on his head. All of them are barefood. In the background you can see a wooden huts with thatched roofs ; The author of the photograph was the father of the photo owner. He was an engineer - building roads and bridges (a specialization in the former KK Austria), Mikołaj Bogdanowicz. During the 1st World War, as a native of Galicia, he was appointed to the Austrian army. In this army he was the commander of three companies of engineers, one of whom was Jewish company. The area of its operation was Volhynia and partially Podolia, where during many months of "stopping" of the front he was building trenches, roads, bridges, etc. ; the period of the 1st World War, around Rivne (Volhynia, now Ukraine) ; The photo sent to the contest named “Photography of the Polish village pre-1948” organized in 1983 by the quarterly “Fotografia” (Photography) and the weekly “Nowa Wieś” (New village). Copy of the photo kept at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (former Institute for the History of Material Culture)
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Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund
Oct 27, 2022
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https://www.rcin.org.pl/iae/publication/57482
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[Bogdanowicz, Mikołaj], [ok. 1914-1918], [Orka] [Dokument ikonograficzny] | Oct 27, 2022 |
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