[Women and soldiers] [An iconographic document] - [Bogdanowicz, Mikołaj] (1914)
The photograph shows four women in hats or caps and two men in military uniforms standing behind them on a platform. The group poses for a photo on a background against a high wooden wall. A woman on the left is a pretty, young, dark-haired girl dressed in a dark sheepskin. On his head she has a bright, woolen cap that covered her ears. A woman standing next to her is wearing a dark coat with a belt and a black hat with a flat, wrinkled crown and a small brim. Standing next to her a woman is wearing a fur astrakhan, with a fluffy fur collar and a hat with a wide brim. The woman on the right is wearing a bright sheepskin and a knitted cap on her head, covering her ears
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 1st World War, Podolia, 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)
Keywords: ethnography; material culture; social culture; soldier; army; woman; female-male relations; leisure time; recreation; fashion; style; clothing; headgear; outerwear; Podolia (Ukraine)