Title:

[A young couple in front of a house] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1936]

Description:

The photo shows a man and a woman in wedding clothes posing against a background of a country house with a porch covered in vines. The woman is dressed in a simple, humble, white dress and a white a veil. The man is wearing a dark suit and a white shirt and he has a white handkerchief and a myrtle branch tucked into the lapel of his suit. The woman is resting her hand on the man’s shoulder ; According to the owner of the photo, it shows her grandmother Julia and her grandfather Henryk (...) on their wedding day. They were married on a Wednesday in February 1936. The photo was taken in front of their house by a local photographer ; February 1936 ; 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 ; buildings ; wedding ; marriage ; family ; wedding customs ; clothing

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 254-2

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