Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: EPOQUE LTD.
Event Date: 1961-08-14
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.018173

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 / managed to report to the big Marienfeld / refugee camp in West Berlin. / photo shows. At the refugee camp at Marien- / feld…a sad face appears at a window…has / she left all her relatives in East Berlin? / (A). 38; stamped: Epoque / LIMITED / 12-15 BOUVERIE STREET / LONDON, E.C.4. / LUDGATE CIRCUS 9593; handwritten: -B.S.; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STARCaptions: 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 managed to report to the big Marienfelde refugee camp in West Berlin. Photo shows: At the refugee camp at Marienfelde... a sad face appears at a window... has she left all her relatives in East 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 managed to report to the big Marienfelde refugee camp in West Berlin. Photo shows: At the refugee camp at Marienfelde... a sad face appears at a window... has she left all her relatives in East Berlin?

Tagasauris Keywords: 2 people; 2 people; Berlin; Berlin Crisis of 1961; Day; Drinkware; East Germany; Face; Female; Germany; Head-and-Shoulders Portrait; Indoors; No Photostyle; Old age; Paper cup; Person; Refugee camp; Sadness; Scarf; Still Life; Teen and adult; Unrest, conflicts and war; Waist-Up Portrait; Window
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BERLIN / CRISIS
Retouching: N