Title:

[A group of men outdoors] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1929]

Description:

The photo depicts a group of men in elegant outfits posing for the camera in three rows outdoors. Two men in the last row, on the right, are in railwaymen uniforms. According to the photo's owner, it depicts a group of employees of a customs office and PKP [railway station] Chorzów Stary. The man with a walking stick is the manager of the customs office Jan (...) - grandfather of the photo’s owner's husband ; Summer 1929, Chorzów Stary, voiv. śląskie ; 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 ; man ; work ; railway ; custom house ; clothing ; railwayman's uniform ; Chorzów, śląskie voivodeship (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 178-7

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