The photograph shows two large, dark oxen pulling a rack wagon at the field. Next to the team goes a man wearing a cap and a working jacket. In the background you can see a large area of farmland and buildings on its edge ; 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 the 1st World War, around Rivne (Volhynia, 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 1. Research and development of modern technologies ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund
Oct 27, 2022
May 29, 2014
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https://rcin.org.pl/publication/58912
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[Bogdanowicz, Mikołaj], [ca 1914-1918], [Zaprzęg z wołów] [Dokument ikonograficzny] | Oct 27, 2022 |
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