Title:

[A married couple with two children] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1940]

Description:

The photo shows a woman and a man posing for the photo against a background of a tapestry hanging on the wall and two few-year-old children standing in between them. The woman is dressed in a dark-coloured jersey and dress, thick stockings and slippers and the man in a dark-coloured pulover on top of a patterned shirt. A fair haired girl in white clothes and an apron is standing closer to the woman and a boy in dark-coloured attire closer to the man ; According to the owner of the photo, it shows his grandparents with their children. It was taken around Easter 1940 on the occasion of the christening of their daughter who can be seen on the picture (the girl is the future mother of the photo’s donor). Next to her stands her elder brother- Walenty ; 1940, Wola Świniecka ; 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:

ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; man ; woman ; family ; marriage ; child ; upbringing ; clothing ; Wola Świniecka, Świnice Warckie commune (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 244-6

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