Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: HELLAS PRESS
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 5 x 7 inches; 12.7 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.005290

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, typed on label: THE CYPRIOT FIGHTERS TURN IN THEIR ARMS. / Yesterday morning the Cypriot fighters of EOKA started / turning in their arms and ammunition to Greek members / of Cyprus police. The arms and ammunition were carried / in cars or trucks w; handwritten on label: h; typed on label: ose circulation number was covered / with a piece of newspaper. Within yesterday there were / brought in 613 rifles and automatic guns, 2.000 bombs / 17.000 rounds of ammunition and one ton explosives. / NICOSIA 14//3//59; handwritten: Greece – Cyprus; stamped: HELLAS PRESS SERVICE / [star shape] POST OFFICE BOX 346 / Credit: / ATHENS – GREECE / from BLACK STAR / [illeg.]; handwritten: Ny / 77//t8-4

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: CYPRUS / CRISIS
Retouching: N