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[Village children] [An iconographic document]
Date issued/created: Description:The photo depicts a group of village children posing for the camera in autumn, outdoors, under a tree and next to a wooden fence. The children are dressed in warm clothes; the girls are wearing headscarves and the boys are in hats. According to the photo’s owner, it depicts the village of Opole and children from that village, who – already familiar with the notion of war, sometimes hungry, some of them lacking proper clothes – wished to have a keepsake photo taken of them. The photo depicts its owner’s mother with her friends ; late Autumn 1944, Opole, voiv. lubelskie ; 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: Subject and Keywords:2nd World War (1939-1945) ; ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; child ; childhood ; memento ; clothing ; Opole Lubelskie, lubelskie voivodeship (Poland)
Resource type: Detailed Resource Type: Format: Source: Rights:Rights Reserved - Restricted Access
Terms of use: 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
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