Category: The Black Star Collection
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.2005.018170

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. They have fled from East Berlin, / and a mother now tends to the wants of her / baby at the Marienfeld refugee camp, West / Berlin.; stamped: Epoque / LIMITED / 12-15 BOUVERIE STREET / LONDON, E.C.4. / LUDGATE CIRCUS 9593; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR; handwritten: -B.S.Captions: 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: They have fled from East Berlin, and a mother now tends to the wants of her baby at the Marienfelde refugee camp, 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: They have fled from East Berlin, and a mother now tends to the wants of her baby at the Marienfelde refugee camp, West Berlin.

Tagasauris Keywords: Aerial View; Baby transport; Child and adult; Day; Face; Full-Length Portrait; Germany; Group of people; Group of people; Infant; Low angle View; Male and Female; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Panoramic; Person; Refugee camp; Rope
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BERLIN / CRISIS
Retouching: N