Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: SPRANG, A. von
Event Date: 1950
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.003912

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 7; handwritten: Closeup of Iron Curtain; handwritten: 12//11; handwritten: 1950; handwritten: Austrian-Czech border; handwritten: 5 [circled]; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten: 5 [circled]; stamped: Please credit: A. von Sprang / abc press / Amsterdam – postbox 694 / tel: 35798 Telegr. Abc press; typed label: 7.) Once upon a time there was a little village here which / comprised about 30 houses. Now it is just one mass of ruins. / The Czech government has demanded the evacuation and destruction / of the village, because many refugees used it to wait there for / a favourable moment to escape to Austria.

Tagasauris Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture; Austria; Barn; Copy space; Day; Farm; Frontier; Landscape; Nobody; Outdoors
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AUSTRIA / FRONTIER
Retouching: N