Title:

A woman in a military coat with a child in her lap] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1943] ; The photo depicts a young woman in a military coat and a four-cornered military hat with the eagle emblem holding in her lap a small girl. The woman and the girl are sitting on chopped logs/ branches. According to the photo's owner, it depicts Maria (...) - her grandmother’s sister - with grandmother’s daughter Dominika (...). Maria was a messenger of Bataliony Chłopskie [Peasants' Battalions] and used the code name „Mała” [the “Little One”]. The photo was taken in 1943 in the Brzostowo forest, Lubartów district

Description:

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:

2nd World War (1939-1945) ; Peasants' Battalions ; ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; woman ; folk partisan organisation ; child ; family bonds ; clothing ; soldier's uniform ; Lubartów, lubelskie voivodeship-region (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 203-3

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