a black and white photo of a group of people standing in front of a buildinga lot of people that are marching down the streettwo men standing outside of a building looking at somethinga lot of people that are walking down the streetblack and white photograph of a large crowd of people in a citya lot of people that are standing in front of a boata black and white photo of a large boat in the waterblack and white photograph of a large crowd of people on a city streeta black and white photo of a group of people standing on a docka black and white photo of a group of people on horsesa black and white photo of a crowd of people on the streetmany people riding bikes behind a barbed wire fencea black and white photo of a group of men digging in the dirta man and a woman standing next to each othera lot of people that are standing in front of a buildinga black and white photo of a man in a suit and top hatblack and white photograph of a man in a wheel chair shaking hands with a man in a suit and tiea black and white photo of a woman handing something to a little girlblack and white photograph of a man in a wheel chair surrounded by a group of people
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346 - MINISTRY OF INFORMATION PHOTOGRAPHY,
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Estimate €500 - €600
Description
MINISTRY OF INFORMATION PHOTOGRAPHY, 1945 and VARIOUS AUTHORS Marseille in the 1930s and 1940s. 32 period silver prints: Marshal Pétain (15), Cross of the Fallen, identity checks, Les Milles camp, the Popular Front in 1934, the warship Dubrovnik, concentration camps, A set of three photographs from the MINISTRY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC INFORMATION, 1945 - Prisoners freed from the Vaihingen camp; the freed prisoners escape on their former guards’ bicycles - The lives of female prisoners at the Belsen concentration camp - SCHVERIN: the civilian population is forced to bury the victims of the Wobelin torture camp. 3 period silver gelatine prints, stamped on the reverse. Prints: 18 x 22.5 cm.
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About the sale Paul BENARROCHE Collection and others | Old and modern photographs | Part II
Auction location
Auction time 10/23/2026 at 2:00 PM
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