Title:

[A portrait of a woman and a man] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1902]

Description:

The photo depicts a woman and a man in festive clothes. The woman has a jacket with a band collar and an elegant novelty headgear; the man is dressed in a suit, a white shirt and a tie. The photo was taken in a photographic studio. According to the photo's owner, it depicts his grandmother and grandfather on their wedding day, probably in 1902 in Rybnik. Grandmother Karolina (...) was born on 9 May 1880 in Zamysłów. Grandfather Józef (...) was born on 25 August 1878 in Niedobczyce. They had 9 children. They lived from farming of their land; apart form that the grandfather worked in the "Rymer"" mine in Niedobczyce as a miner in 1899-1925. They spend their whole lives in Niedobczyce which was a Silesian village and currently constitutes a district of the town of Rybnik ; 1902, Rybnik, voiv. śląskie ; 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:

Niedobczyce (Rybnik, Poland) ; ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; portrait ; woman ; man ; wedding ; marriage ; clothing ; fashion ; headwear ; Rybnik, śląskie voivodeship (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 180-1

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