Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.003902

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Austria / Frontier; handwritten: [German inscription]; handwritten: E [circled]; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: Owen OK [name handwritten] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; typed label: E) At the Austrian side of the border a sign board reading “State border” / only warns against entering the death zone with its electrically loaded / barbed wire fence. Insulators mounted at the poles prove that the iron / curtain is electrically loaded; handwritten: Divided into 2 by the Iron Curtain

Tagasauris Keywords: Agriculture; Day; Nobody; Outdoors
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AUSTRIA / FRONTIER
Retouching: N