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: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.104323

Inscriptions:
After failing to get into one of the escape boats, this convict took/ refuge in the mountains of the island. Licked by hunger and cold he/ decided to return to the prison. [Illeg.] surrender to Cel Hidalgo/ of the 5th Cavalry Battalion.World's Biggest Jail Break

Tagasauris Keywords: 3 people; 4 people; Brazilian Army; Brazilian people; Crime, law and justice; Day; Firearm; Gesture; Group; Male; Male; Mid adult; Moustache; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Prisoner; Rebellion; Soldiers; Still Life; Three-Quarter-Length Portrait; Unrest, conflicts and war; Waist-Up Portrait
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BRAZIL / PRISONS
Retouching: N