Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: Okamoto, Yoichi R.
Event Date: 1946-05
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.003564

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Religion / Vienna / Cemeteries; handwritten: 4-14; handwritten: Tuerkenschantz Park / Cemetery / Vienna – May ’46; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped: photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto [located within credit stamp]; handwritten: 49; handwritten: Other Russian graveyards can be found in / Vienna. This is in a remote part of Vienna, / in an old graveyard near the outskirts of / the town. Not many Austrians visit here / so the Russians haven’t bothered changing / the markers. Weather has dulled the original / red paint, obliterated the names and knocked the red

Tagasauris Keywords: Austria; Christianity; Crucifix; Day; Grave; Headstone; Human likeness; Memorial; Outdoors; Religion and belief; Russia; Russian
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AUSTRIA / PEOPLE: RUSSIANS
Retouching: N