Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: A.B.C. PRESS SERVICE
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004549

Inscriptions:
mount verso, [no inscription]; mount recto, handwritten: 1 [circled]; stamped: HOLLAND [struck through]; handwritten: Belgium / Gheel / C 18 x 30 pr; stamped [upside down]: Credit: [star shape] Photo: A. B. C.- / Copyright by: / A.B.C. PRESS SERVICE / from BLACK STAR / (I RONA) / AMSTERDAM. C. –N.Z. VOORBURGWAL 347 / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK / Telefoon 36798; typed on label: 1. In the Belgian town, Gheel, 4000 insane / are cared for. If on did no know of this / specialty of the town, one would not notice it / at all. Only on small things, their clothing, / which is not taken care of, their walk, which / is often a dragging walk, can on perhaps tell.; handwritten [upside down]: 3394; stamped: 2876//6

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BELGIUM / PEOPLE
Retouching: N