The photograph shows four men with musical instruments. Three of them are wearing military uniforms and one a white apron. In the foreground you can see a smiling man sitting on the ground with an accordion in his hands. Behind him on the chair on the left side you can see a man with glasses with a cap on his head, playing the guitar. On the right of him the man in a white apron is sitting without a musical instrument. A soldier with a guitar isholding a pipe with a long, curved stem in his mouth. Behind them, behind a fence there is another soldier, holding a violin in his hands. The picture was taken in the garden ; 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, 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
Jan 13, 2023
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https://rcin.org.pl./publication/60673
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[Bogdanowicz, Mikołaj], [ok. 1914-1918], [Muzykujący żołnierze] [Dokument ikonograficzny] | Jan 13, 2023 |
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