Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: TOPHAM, John
Event Date: 1940-04
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.009063

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 7084//2 / 2WW / England / [illeg.]; typed label: CANVASSING DONORS FOR THE BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE / A scene in a main street of Dartford, Kent, where / [illeg.] 12 V.A.D.’s were canvassing for blood donors for the Blood / Transfusion Service. / In a week’s effort they have obtained over a 1000 / people to be grouped under the different blood denominations. / [illeg.] //4//40 / John Topham, Sideup, Kent.; stamped: COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH / BY / JOHN TOPHAM, / 1, BIRCHWOOD AVENUE, / SIDCUP, KENT. / PHONE: FOOTS GRAY 2116-DAY & NIGHT; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK; handwritten: Topham; stamped: BLACK STAR / CLIFFORDS INN, FLEET STREET / LONDON, E.C.4. / PICTURE ON LOAN

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: ENGLAND / NEWSPAPER
Retouching: N