The photograph shows a view of a city street and a few townspeople posing for a picture. Among them, in the foreground you can see a Jew in a traditional dress (a long gaberdine) and a cap on his head. Behind the people, on the other side of the street you can see high tenement houses. On the left side of the photo a wooden building stands behind a high lantern. The image is underexposed, and of a poor quality ; The author of the photograph was the father of the photo owner. He was an engineer - building roads and bridges (a specialization in the former KK Austria), Mikołaj Bogdanowicz. During the 1st World War, as a native of Galicia, he was appointed to the Austrian army. In this army he was the commander of three companies of engineers, one of whom was Jewish company. The area of its operation was Volhynia and partially Podolia, where during many months of "stopping" of the front he was building trenches, roads, bridges, etc. ; the period of 1st World War, Podolia, now Ukraine ; 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)
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Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund
Jan 13, 2023
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[Bogdanowicz, Mikołaj], [ok. 1914-1918], [Mieszkańcy miasta] [Dokument ikonograficzny] | Jan 13, 2023 |
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