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.2005.104327

Inscriptions:
World's Biggest Jail Break[Illeg.] is the end for this convict. After failing to get a place in the boats used by the/ [illeg/] escape, he took refuge in the mountains of the island. Licked by/ [illeg.] to come back to the jail. Suffering and fright show up/ [illeg.]

Tagasauris Keywords: 2 people; 2 people; Arm; Crime, law and justice; Group; Hat; Male; Male; Man; Night; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Riot; Sky; Social issues; Still Life; Three-Quarter-Length Portrait; Unrest, conflicts and war
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BRAZIL / PRISONS
Retouching: N