Title:

[A woman with soldiers] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1945]

Description:

The photo shows a young smiling elegantly dressed woman standing between two men in different uniforms. The one on the left is wearing a cloth hat, the other a hat pretending to be a rogatywka (a traditional four-cornered hat), a galloon on his pennant and a band on his arm with the number “9”. The woman is dressed in a winter coat with a fur collar and high boots on her feet. They are posing for the photo standing in tall grass against a background of bushes and wild plants ; According to the owner of the photo, it shows the same woman as photo 240-1, but in the company of different men ; On the back of the photo there is an inscription: To dear Kazia [from the] genuinely devoted Nelly, Hölzendorf 10.11.1945. as well as an only partly visible stamp (probably of the photographer’s workshop): “Agfa Lupex” ; November 1945 ; 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:

Armed Forces of the People's Republic of Poland (1943-1989) ; ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; army ; soldier ; woman ; youth ; leisure time ; Holzendrof (Germany)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 240-2

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