Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: MAURITIUS-VERLAG
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.122124

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Army; typed: [German inscription]; typed label: 1. The dogs in the defence-service are divided up into / individual equipments-two men and two dogs-form one equipment. / The two dogs know both of their masters and follow them, so that in / case one of the men fall, the other will have to take over the dogs - / and in case a new master is required, the dogs will have to train over / a period of weeks before they can serve a new master – one of the most / important tasks is, to see that the dogs in one equipment are well agreed; typed label: [German inscription]; stamped: 163 37; stamped label: [star shape] / Return to / BLACK STAR / 420 LEXINGTON AVE. NEW YORK; stamped: 231 37

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: ARMY / GERMANY-ANIMALS, DOGS
Retouching: N