Title:

[Two children] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1947]

Description:

The photo shows a painted model aeroplane with the symbols SP-LAF [SP is a registration of Ił 62], inscriptions: “LOT” and “Warszawa-Legnica” and a Polish check on the tail. Through the holes cut out in place of the windows you can see the faces of two children: a boy in a hat and a fair-haired girl ; According to the owner of the photo, it shows his mother and her brother, Walenty, soon after the family moving to the Recovered Territories in 1947 (formerly German lands incorporated into Poland after the Second World War).The photo was taken in a photographer’s parlour in Legnica ; 1947, Legnica ; 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)

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; child ; childhood ; upbringing ; play ; leisure time ; Legnica, dolnośląskie voivodeship (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 244-2

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Restricted Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. Access only on terminals at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, may be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms.

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Closed