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A woman wearing traditional Lachy Sądeckie costume
Mieczysław Cholewa1930
The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
Details
- Title: A woman wearing traditional Lachy Sądeckie costume
- Creator: Mieczysław Cholewa
- Creator Death Date: 1978
- Manufacturer: Mieczysław Cholewa (1913- 1978) was a photographer and amateur ethnographer, as well activist and populariser of the Sądecczyzna region. In the inter-war period studied regional qualities of the Polish areas of the Carpathians, making photographic documentations and collecting traditional folk costumes. A lot of his photos were used in ethnographic studies of folk culture, for example by such eminent ethnographers as Tadeusz Seweryn or Roman Reinfuss. He is also the author of a highly regarded monograph on traditional folk costumes titled “Stroje Ludowe Ziemi Sądeckiej,” published in Lublin in 1946. In the 1940s published a few dozen of his photos as postcards.
- Date Created: 1930
- Location Created: Lachy Sądeckie - ethnographic region,South Poland.
- Physical Dimensions: 10x15 cm
- Photographer: Mieczysław Cholewa
- Medium: glass negative
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