Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: LE CLER, Paula
Title: Untitled [Food and supply restrictions, 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.2005.117564

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: [in graphite] I/9; typed and handwritten: [in black ink and graphite on paper adhered with paste] I/IX. Sometimes -- although very rarely -- Marseille got a very frequent / quantity of the food shipped in from the French African colonies, 90% of / thivh [sic] traveled to the Nazi. Stallkeepers who corralled a few pounds of / suce [sic] windfalls soon had queues a block or more in length awaiting a share / of them. Fruit especially was a rarity. Those waiting in line have not / only the cold and discomfort to content with; they worry whether anything / will be left by the time their turn comes. Usually the wares las [sic] only / through the first score or so of customers, the rest go home empty handed / and broken hearted.; 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