Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: DORIEN LEIGH LTD.
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007605

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: London / [illeg.]; typed on label: CURIOUS SHOPS/ [underlined]; handwritten: 45; typed on label: Fribourg and Treyer, one oxf [sic] the few shops in / London to carry on their business in their orig- / inal premises. They opened in 1720 as snuff / dealers and later as tobacconists and cigar / merchants. The old bow windows are still there / and there is a lovely Adam’s screen dividing the / inside of the shop.; handwritten underneath label: 1355-1973; stamped [upside down]: [star shape] / Credit: / DORIEN LEIGH LTD. ON LOAN / LUDGATE HOUSE, / from BLACK STAR107, FLEET ST., E.C. 4. / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK / CENTRAL 1847 VALUABLE ORIGINAL / DO NOT DAMAGE; handwritten: 1355-1973

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LONDON / STORES TOBACCO AND WIGS
Retouching: N