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Agency: EPOQUE LTD.
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1961-08-14
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.018169
Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Berlin Crisis August 61; attached inscription; typed: THE LAST TO GET THROUGH / 14.8.61. / As the Communists closed the East / Berlin border, refugees in their thousands / the last to get through, managed to report / to the big Marienfeld refugee camp in West / Berlin. / Photo shows. Old and young alike…they have / fled from East Berlin…an old woman waiting / patiently in a tent at the Marienfeld / refugee camp in West Berlin. / (A). 12.; stamped: Epoque / LIMITED / 12-15 BOUVERIE STREET. / LONDON. E.C.4. / LUDGATE CIRCUS 9593; handwritten: -B.S.; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORKCaptions: Verso: Berlin Crisis, August 1961.Verso: The last to get through, August 14, 1961. As the Communists closed the East Berlin border, refugees in their thousands the last to get through, managed to report to the big Marienfelde refugee camp in West Berlin. Photo shows: Old and young alike... they have fled from East Berlin... and old woman waiting patiently in a tent at the Marienfelde refugee camp in West Berlin.Markings:Verso: Berlin Crisis, August 1961.Verso: The last to get through, August 14, 1961. As the Communists closed the East Berlin border, refugees in their thousands the last to get through, managed to report to the big Marienfelde refugee camp in West Berlin. Photo shows: Old and young alike... they have fled from East Berlin... and old woman waiting patiently in a tent at the Marienfelde refugee camp in West Berlin.
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BERLIN / CRISIS
Retouching: N