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.2005.117950

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: [in graphite] II/4; typed: [in black ink on paper adhered with paste] LOT II - 4. / Marseille, like other French cities has suffered a complete breakdown of its local / transport system. Only a few trams still run with any regularity. Horses are scarse [sic] -- / for there's no grain or anything else to feed them with. Tired out huksters [sic] and stall- / owners, their small stocks sold out, have to provide their own motor power. Ironically, / in the background there is an "Empire poster" -- depicting a broadshouldered [sic] vigorous, / wellfed-looking [sic] French soldier and presenting the status quo as something to fight for.; 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 / BREADLINE SHORTAGES-WELFARE
Retouching: N