Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: LE CLER, Paula
Title: Untitled [Broken cart, German-occupied Marseilles, France], ca. 1942
Event Date: ca. 1942
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.117558

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: [in graphite] II/6 Photographing France Under Hitler / 2 W.W. / France; typed: [in black ink on paper adhered with tape] LOT II - 6. / Here -- a hand-drawn cart that has broken down, with its owner doing a mid-street / repair job on it. He is winding some old rags around the rim of the undersized / wheel. Wheels run on bare rims today; he is trying to keep his from falling apart / altogether. His two wan underclad, underfed children watch him. The disrepair of / the cobbled Marseille street is characteristic. Once out of repair anything in / France today has to stay that way; all materials to fix anything are lacking.; handwritten: [in graphite] 49+; stamped and handwritten: [in black ink] Credit: [black star] / Paula Le Cler / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII FRANCE / MISC
Retouching: N