The photograph shows a group of people, including a woman, a man and several children and young people standing with buckets at a pump in the middle of a village road. These people are dressed in modest, poor clothing. In the background you can see a brick, sizeable house behind a wooden fence. In the foreground there is a road and a boy pumping water. A large empty barrel stands on the left side of a plump ; 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/60574
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[Bogdanowicz, Mikołaj], [ok. 1914-1918], [Ludzie przy pompie] [Dokument ikonograficzny] | Jan 13, 2023 |
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