Poor Peasant’s Cottage in Pychowice

This photograph on a gelatin silver glass plate negative, stained and with a substantially damaged  image-carrying layer, dated 1903, depicts a poor peasant’s cottage in the then village of Pychowice. The door, opened inwards, has a shirt hanging on it. On the left we see a large fruit tree surrounded by a picket fence. The building houses one room and an entrance hall. It has a steep hip roof covered with smoothly laid thatch that is stepped at the corners. There is a smoke hole in the roof, which probably means that this is a chimneyless cottage (kurna chata).