Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: WHITNEY, Dale
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.003352

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: “MUCKI”; handwritten: Austria / Homes; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR; handwritten: DALE WHITNEY [located within credit stamp]; typed label: ….Each day without fail, Mucki and Katie go to see / the progress of their new home. / Months and months before, all but the last sixteen families in Haid / (near Linz, Austria) had moved out of the old barracks and into new / modern apartment houses which had been built with funds by the United / Nations High Commissioner for Refugees—the striving efforts that began / in 1960 during World Refugee Year when it was the hope to clear all / refugee camps in Europe so that by 1965, those families who did not / immigrate, would at least have decent homes—and the soar of being a refugee would disappear as intergration into Austrian life took place. [sic]

Tagasauris Keywords: 1 person; Architecture; Austria; Baby carriage; Child; Child; Construction; Day; Female; Full length; Girl; House; Outdoors; People; Wood
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AUSTRIA / PEOPLE: CHILDREN
Retouching: N