[A potato harvest] [An iconographic document] (1946)
The photo depicts two women carrying a basket of potatoes. There is an elderly man walking behind them. In the background there is a filed. At the back of the photo there is the following inscription: “Peasant women from Wielącza near Zamość in 1946 during the potato harvest”
1946, Wielącza near Zamość
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)
Keywords: ethnography; material culture; social culture; farming; agriculture; woman; man; field works; digging potatoes; clothing; Wielącza, Szczebrzeszyn commune (Poland)