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Portrait photograph of two Jews counting bottles of alcohol

The photograph was taken by Juliusz Dutkiewicz in his photographic studio in Kołomyia in the 1870s or 1880s . Little is known about the author. He operated his studio successively in Suceava (Polish: Suczawa), Ivano-Frankivsk (Polish: Stanisławów), Lviv (Polish: Lwów), and Kołomyia, engaging in both indoor and outdoor photography. Some of his most renowned works include photographs documenting the landscapes and people of Hucul Region and Pokuttya (Polish: Pokucie). Dutkiewicz featured photographs of folk types from these areas, alongside landscapes of the Chornohora (Polish: Czarnohora), at the 1880 "Ethnographic Exhibition of Pokuttya" in Kołomyia.

The photograph is a portrait of two Jewish men engaged in an improvised indoor commercial transaction within the photographic studio. The men are standing next to a pedestal on which five bottles of alcohol were placed. The older man, positioned on the left side of the frame with his right hand slightly raised, has a long, gray beard and is dressed in a dark belt-tied gaberdine (Yiddish: kapote), white stockings, and heelless slippers. He is wearing a fur hat – shtreimel (also known as fur-trimmed hat or kalpak). The younger man, standing on the right side behind a column, is dressed somewhat more modernly, with a visible waistcoat beneath his long coat and a round flat cap on his head. He is touching one of the bottles with his left hand and stroking his short chin with his right hand in a contemplative gesture.

The men were photographed against a screen painted with floral motifs and a balustrade on which there is a shtreimel (on the right side of the frame) and a tall metal (?) can In the lower left corner of the photograph there is a handwritten number "10." representing a kind of catalogue number of the photograph.

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Information about the object
Author / creator
Dutkiewicz, Juliusz (183.-około 1908)
Object type
photography
Time of creation / dating
2nd half of the 19th century
Place of creation
Kolomyia (Ukraine)
Technique
black-and-white photograph
Material
photographic print paper
Keywords
Copyright status
the object is not protected by copyright law
Owner
Seweryn Udziela Etnographical Museum in Kraków
Identification number
III/86/F MEK