The photograph shows two people dressed in thick winter clothes standing on frozen lake at an air-hole. On the right side of the photo you can see a standing woman. She wears a thick, plaid kerchief and a bright sheepskin and high felt boots. The man on the left side of an image is bending, in a gesture of a swing with a tool resembling a cleaver, probably to kill a fish. He is wearing a bright sheepskin and snowshoes on his feet ; 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 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) ; the period of 1st World War, Podolia, now Ukraine
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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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[Bogdanowicz, Mikołaj], [ok. 1914-1918], [Dwoje ludzi przy przerębli na jeziorze] [Dokument ikonograficzny] | Jan 13, 2023 |
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