Title:

[The transport of rye] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1944]

Description:

The photo depicts transport of rye. A multigenerational family are standing around a horse-drawn cart loaded with mowed rye. A man is standing on the cart and receiving rye sheafs. Beside the cart there are an elderly woman in a kerchief holding a rake, two smiling girls and a young man in a cap handing sheafs. There is an inscription on the back of the photo: “He is helping his grandmother (…) with transporting the rye to the barn during the harvest in 1944/ he is the coachman and holds the reins / granddaughter Urszulka [Ursula](…) now a master of mathematics and lives in Warsaw. The grandmother is standing in the front, she died very old / she was 91/ the photo taken by an amateur/ name unknown/ in the village and former community Grzymkowice, Skierniewice district”; summer 1944, Grzymkowice Village , Łódź voivodeship ; 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:

ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; agriculture ; field works ; harvest ; transport of rye ; transport ; family ; child ; family bonds ; help ; animals ; horse ; clothing ; Grzymkowice, Biała Rawska commune (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 20-8

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