Title:

[Sawmill workers] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1936]

Description:

The photo depicts a large group of men posing for the photo next to logs of wood and surrounded by machines. They are wearing occupational dresses. According to the photo’s owner this is a group – a team – of the local sawmill [owned by] Knapik in the commune of Pszów from 1936. The photo depicts a group of underage workers – under-18s. The person marked with a cross has been identified by a resident of Kokoszyce – it is a 17-year-old Paweł (…) from the village of Kokoszyce ; 1936, Kokoszyce, com. Pszów, district Rybnik ; 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 ; farming ; man ; work ; sawmill ; wood ; woodworking ; sawmill machine ; social bonds ; working conditions ; Kokoszyce (Wodzisław Śląski, Poland) ; Pszów, Wodzisław Śląski district (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

IAiE PAN, no. call 127-19

Source:

IAiE PAN, nr inw. 127-19

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