Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: PLANET NEWS LTD.
Event Date: 1945-12-21
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007657

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: London Traffic; typed on label: CHRISTMAS TRAFFIC AT A STANDSTILL IN PICCADILLY. / The removal of some controls on the use of motor vehicles, combined / with extra Christmas activity, is bringing an almost pre-war / appearance of congestion back to the traffic in London streets. / PHOTO SHOWS:- A Christmas traffic jam of cars, vans and busses / stretching along the whole of the north side of Piccadilly, London / AND 21 December 1945; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / COPYRIGHT / PLANET NEWS LTD. from BLACK STAR / 3 JOHNSON’S COURT, GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK / FLEET STREET, E.C.4. / PHONE CENTRAL 3671//3

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LONDON / TRANSPORTATION AUTO
Retouching: N