[Modlin Fortress] Photo Album of a Polish Officer Cadet, School of Sapper Reserve Cadets, XV Course - Modlin Fortress, 1936/37,

Photo album of the Polish Officer Cadet School of Sapper Reserve, XV Course - Modlin Fortress, 1936/37. The album has a format of 25 x 17.5cm and contains 80 photographs spread over nineteen pages. The photographs, with the exception of a few, are technically good, sharp and clean, professionally cropped. They range in format from 6x4.5cm "contact sheets" to the 17.5 x 12.5cm format - an excellent group photo of the 1st Company of the 15th EOD Officer Cadet Course, together with the officer cadre. The album is in good condition, missing only a few parchment dividers, a few are damaged. There are no traces of removed photos, the collection seems complete, and it certainly has great documentary and cognitive value.

The photos placed in the album are a kind of reportage of the course of the sappers. The first of them, ne the only signed page - "MODLIN 1936" - are photographs with his closest colleagues against the background of the barracks and with his superior in the rank of sergeant, then there are photos of the company roll call and of work on sapper boats on the Vistula. Pages 4 and 5 are the military oath, while the next photos show the company's lineup, also in full gear against the backdrop of the fortress. Further photographs illustrate a wide variety of sapper work: surveying, driving piles (beautiful shots of "screwing the baby"), building footbridges and bridges - including the load test, working in the field forge, felling trees in the field (here 4 photos are clearly technically inferior) but also cleaning weapons, whisking blankets, driving colleagues in wheelbarrows and many others.... The report ends with a beautiful, almost artistic postcard-sized photo - a silhouette of a cadet standing by the willows against a wide landscape. Behind the blank page are pasted 4 more photos illustrating carpentry work, perhaps obtained later by the author of the collection. The rest of the album is blank