Title:

[Portrait of a young woman] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1916]

Description:

The photo depicts a young woman posing for the camera next to a tall narrow table and resting her right hand on that table. The woman is dressed in a blouse with a white collar and a decorative fastening, and a dark long skirt. She has a dark velvet ribbon (?) fastened around her neck, her hair is cut at ear-level. There is a vase with flowers behind the woman. The photo was taken in 1916 in a photographic studio. According to the photo's owner, it depicts her grandmother's sister - Joanna (...) ; 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 ; portrait ; woman ; clothing ; fashion

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 190-3

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