Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: KRAUS, Franz
Event Date: 1955
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 5 x 7 inches; 12.7 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.003601

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, typed label: The Gloom stems from the very heart of the city. The / Red Star stands facing the Parliament, a cruel reminder.; stamped: KRAUS FRANZ / Schmidgasse Nr. 14 / Photo office PAD; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; typed: [German inscription]; handwritten: SHADOW OVER / VIENNA; handwritten: 55; handwritten: (new); stamped: Photo by / Kraus franz [name handwritten]; typed label: This building, formerly the seat of the city school-board / is now decorated with a large Red Star and houses the / Russian Kommandantura. Standing right next to the house / of Parliament, it has been the first station on the road / to Siberia for several people who entered the building as / free persons, never to return home again. About two years / ago a Viennese street-car conductor who has been arrested / by the Soviets on a minor matter, jumped out of the third / floor window (far right) to avoid deportation.

Tagasauris Keywords: Architecture; Architecture; Arts, culture and entertainment; Austria; Building; Copy space; Day; Flag; Nobody; Outdoors; Tram; Urban scene; Wet Streets
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AUSTRIA / MISCELLANEOUS
Retouching: N