Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: WOLFF, Werner
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.285218

Inscriptions:
Verso: ellis island / WORLD WEARY -- A czechoslavakian refugee, Juliana Pornbau, who has been detained on Ellis Island for medical reasons, sits calmly and stoically in the Detention Hall while she awaits/ the results ofa medical exam. Her face indicates that present troubles are nothing compared to previous ones.

Tagasauris Keywords: 1 person; 1 person; Day; Ellis Island; Face; Female; Female; Headscarf; Indoors; No Photostyle; Old age; Old lady; Person; Senior adult; Social issues; Still Life; Waist-Up Portrait
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: PEOPLE / SENIORS
Retouching: N