The photograph shows a group of men in long, thick, military coats working at construction of a bridge with thick logs and planks. In the distance you can see the other side of a river overgrown with bushes. In the foreground can be seen a well-built man in a double-breasted jacket with metal buttons and a peaked cap on his head ; 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 a 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, Podolia, 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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Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund
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https://rcin.org.pl./publication/60428
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[Bogdanowicz, Mikołaj], [ok. 1914-1918], [Żołnierze przy pracy] [Dokument ikonograficzny] | Jan 12, 2023 |
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