[An excursion to Łysica] [An iconographic document] (1930)
The photo depicts a wooden cart drawn by a horse. There are several dozen people, including children gathered on and around the cart. There are some farm buildings in the background. According to the photo’s owner, it depicts a trip to Łysica for the participants the socio- cultural training course for the leaders of the local Circle of the Union of Rural Youth organised in Zalesie. At the back of the photo there is an inscription: “A trip to Łysica, a part of the 10-day-long socio-cultural training course for the leaders of the local Associations of the Union of Rural Youth in Zalesie in 1930”
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: Union of Rural Youth; ethnography; material culture; social culture; local communities; association; leisure time; excursion; Zalesie, świętokrzyskie voivodeship (Poland); Łysica Mountain, Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Poland)