%0 Journal Article
%T Photographs collection from Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party Archive in Lublin – characteristics and cognitive values
%A Ćwiek, Ewelina
%J Studia Archiwalne
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/17347513SA.19.003.14558
%N Vol. 6
%P 45-76
%K elaboration method, photograph, archive, PC PUWP in Lublin, Workers’ Party.
%@ 1734-7513
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-archiwalne/article/zbiory-fotografii-archiwow-komitetow-wojewodzkich-polskiej-zjednoczonej-partii-robotniczej-aspekty-historyczne-i-metodyczne
%X The purpose of this article was to characterize, on various levels, and to show cognitive values of photographs from former Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party Archive in Lublin, including creation context of this collection. These photographs are the subject of my analysis, as well as to some degree – along with unpublished regulations for party archives from The Archive of Modern Records in Warsaw and The State Archive in Lublin – basic source of this paper. First part of this article pertains to the general theoretical issues related to photograph, problems with its elaboration and methodical questions. Second part concentrates mainly on a methodology of dealing with photographs from PC PUWP archives, activities of these archives, ways of gathering iconographic materials and issues of photographs description during the existence of PC PUWP Archives. Last part of this work serves as a type of guidebook introduction for a PC PUWP photographs collection stored in The State Archive in Lublin, as well as characteristics of mentioned collection.