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Title
Girl standing on the edge of a destroyed wall, Berlín, 1983
Creator
Cross, Richard, 1950-1983
Date Created and/or Issued
1983-02
Publication Information
California State University, Northridge
Contributing Institution
California State University, Northridge
Collection
Richard Cross Photographs (Bradley Center)
Rights Information
Use of images from the collections of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center is strictly prohibited by law without prior written consent from the copyright holders. The responsibility for the use of these materials rests exclusively with the user.
The Bradley Center may assist in obtaining copyright/licensing permission to use images from the Richard Cross collection. http://www.csun.edu/bradley-center/contact
Description
Full-length portrait of a girl with white dress standing amid ruins in the city of Berlín, El Salvador. Guerrillas occupied the town for four days before the military hit the town with bombs from airplanes. Arturo Rivera y Damas, the San Salvador acting bishop of the time, announced a few days after the attack that a church count showed more than 300 people (mostly civilians, and few Salvadoran soldiers and rebels) had died during that week of February.
Un retrato de cuerpo entero de una niña con un vestido blanco que está de pie en medio de las ruinas en la ciudad de Berlín, El Salvador. Los guerrilleros ocuparon la ciudad durante cuatro días antes de que los militares atacaran la ciudad con bombas en un ataque aéreo. Arturo Rivera y Damas, el obispo en funciones de San Salvador de esa época, denunció pocos días después la destrucción en un encuentro de la iglesia y mostró que más de 300 personas (en su mayoría civiles, y pocos soldados y rebeldes salvadoreños) habían muerto durante esa semana de febrero.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
image/jpeg
black-and-white negatives
Extent
35 mm
Identifier
99.01.RCr.N35.B11.08.42.19A
http://digital-collections.csun.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p17169coll1/id/2880
Subject
Civil War
El Salvador
Documentary photographs
El Salvador--History--1979-1992
El Salvador--Politics and Government--1979-1992
Bombing, Aerial
El Salvador. Ejército
Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
Civilians in War
Place
Usulután (El Salvador)
Relation
99.01.RCr.N35.B11.08.42.19A.tif
Richard Cross Photographs
California State University Northridge. University Library. Special Collections & Archives. Tom & Ethel Bradley Center

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