The train to the Black Sea is always crowded with soldiers, workers, and peasants who are chosen because of health, or exceptionally meritorious work, for a vacation.

The train to the Black Sea is always crowded with soldiers, workers, and peasants who are chosen because of health, or exceptionally meritorious work, for a vacation.

Photograph

Robert Capa

Maker
American, b. Hungary, 1913–1954

The train to the Black Sea is always crowded with soldiers, workers, and peasants who are chosen because of health, or exceptionally meritorious work, for a vacation.

From Scenes in Georgia - Land of Happy People and Rich Industry


1948
Gelatin silver print
Image: 20 x 25 cm
Overall: 20.5 x 25.4 cm
Gift of George Stephanopoulos, 2005
2005.0909.0012
Inscriptions verso (typed label): [series title and description)

verso (stamp): See 1 May 1948 Illustrated

verso (stamp): Property of the Periodicals Art Library / 191, High Holborn, W.C.1 / Must be returned undamaged

verso (stamp): Please Credit / Robert Capa-Magnam / Magnam Photos / 58 West 8th Street / New York 11 NY

verso (stamp): This photograph can be reproduced only with the accompanying caption or with text strictly in the spirit of the caption.

verso (ink): File Russia / Trans/Railway (Steam) X File / Indus - Misc - Welfare / Rest Home

verso (pencil): 6-5 / RC 78

verso (red pencil): 19
TextThey are going to get four weeks' vacation. This is the dream of every Russian......Four weeks in a Georgia rest home on the Black Sea where they can bathe, relax and have the comforts which one doesn't often get.

Industries are growing with the products of rich Georgia, being manufactured in the town of Triflis. Georgians are a race strictly apart from the Slavs.
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