The photograph shows a large, two-storey wooden house built as a log cabin with a multi-hipped shake roof. At a front of a house at the height of the second floor there is a large balcony with three-hipped roof and four wooden columns that support it. This balcony is supported on four columns, not repetitive an architectural order of columns from the first floor. On both sides of the entrance to the house there are two windows with wooden shutters. The exterior walls of the building are connected to adjacent buildings by a high, compact fence of wooden planks, with finished ornaments in the shape of a rhombus. Before the house can be seen attached to ground floor columns a low fence, carelessly built with rails ; 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
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Jun 11, 2014
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https://rcin.org.pl/publication/61211