Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: ca. 1939-45
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.115755

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 9807//4 / 2nd WW / Engl. Aviation / Animals; typed label: Across the water, the “Catalina” flying-boat skims at ever / growing speed, and in a few moments she will be in the air. Back / at her base, her patrol over, one of the first things to be done - / as the picture below shows – is the removed the wicker cage housing / the carrier pigeons which are always carried in the flying boat; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped: “ILLUSTRATED” COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH / MUST NOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION / NEGATIVE No. / (To be quoted when re-ordering); 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: WWII ENGLAND / MILITARY DOGS AND HORSES
Retouching: N