[The portrait of a man in a uniform] [An iconographic document] (1919)
The photo was taken in a photo-atelier. It shows a young man in a uniform sitting on a chair. Apparent from a description of the owner of the photo it depicts her father (..) during his service in the army in 1919
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: Polish Army; ethnography; material culture; social culture; portrait; man; clothing; soldiers; military uniform