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The photograph shows two women in a thick coats and scarves on their heads wringling a bed linen washed in the river with battle-dores. The woman, visible in the foreground is wearing a long “kufajka” [a quilted jacket] tied with a belt and a bright scarf on her head. In her right hand she holds a battle-dore and in a left a twisted bed linen. On her right side her companion is holding a scroll of fabric in her hands. On the left side of the photo you can see a fragment of a cart ; 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, 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
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
Oct 27, 2022
May 29, 2014
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https://rcin.org.pl./publication/60115
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[Bogdanowicz, Mikołaj], [ok. 1914-1918], [Kobiety piorące bieliznę] [Dokument ikonograficzny] | Oct 27, 2022 |
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