Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: Charbonnier, J.P.
Event Date: 1945-??-??
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.117792

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: French traitor shot; handwritten: France 45; attached inscription, typed: (7) Twelve rifles are beeing [sic] loaded for the firing squad.One will hold a black cartridge / nobody will ever know which. The prisoner will march past those guns on his way to the / square outside.; stamped: PASSED FOR PUBLICATION / 16MAR1945 / Name; handwritten: 7 124; handwritten: Copyright by:; stamped: PHOTO / J. PH. CHARBONNIER / DROITS ET NOM EXIGES; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped: OA12217; handwritten: 4 [circled]; handwritten: [illeg.] 2 [circled]

Tagasauris Keywords: 2 people; Beret; Bullet; Capital punishment; Day or night unknown; Firearm; France; Full length; Male; Outdoors; Rifle; Unrest, conflicts and war; World War II; World War II; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII FRANCE / TRAITOR (TRIALS) EXECUTIONS
Retouching: N