Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
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.2005.104332

Inscriptions:
Biggest Jail Break in the worldDeath and desolation..In their bloody dispute for freedom, which they/ wanted to obtain at any cost, the inmates of Anchieta Island machine-/ gunned everybody who tried to block their way. 11 men, both soldiers and civilians, lost their lives in the resistence against the evaded convicts

Tagasauris Keywords: Boot; Day; Death; Dress; Foot; Hand; Male and Female; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Still Life; Textile; Unrest, conflicts and war; Walking; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BRAZIL / PRISONS
Retouching: N