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Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: BALLOT, Henri
Title: World's Biggest Jail Break
Event Date: 1952-06
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: overall: 17.5 cm x 17.25 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.104325
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BRAZIL / PRISONS
Retouching: N
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: BALLOT, Henri
Title: World's Biggest Jail Break
Event Date: 1952-06
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: overall: 17.5 cm x 17.25 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.104325
Inscriptions:
World's Biggest Jail BreakDeath and desolation. In their bloody dispute for freedome, which they wanted/ to obtain atany [sic] cost, the inmates of Anchieta Island machine-gunned every/ one who tried to block their way. 11 men, both civillians and soldiers, lost/ their lives in the resistance against the evaded convicts.
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BRAZIL / PRISONS
Retouching: N