Mass Exodus
Photograph

Magnum Photos, Inc.

Maker
American, estab. 1947

Mass Exodus

Dutch Quit New Guinea


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 5/16 × 6 1/8 in. (23.6 × 15.6 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0384
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (New Guinea) 10/62 8) MAS EXODUS: Almost all of the 2700 Dutch \ colonials and their families are leaving New Guinea. \ Here, Papuans load the luggage of their former masters \ on to the S.S. Patris for transport back to the \ Netherlands. \ Credit: UNITED NATIONS © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
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