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

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.

Tagasauris Keywords: 1 person; Arm; Brazilian people; Crime, law and justice; Day; Female; Landscape; Mourning; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Prison riot; Prisoner; Riot; Textile; Unrest, conflicts and war; Waist-Up Portrait
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BRAZIL / PRISONS
Retouching: N