Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 5 x 7 inches; 12.7 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.009781

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: England / Greenwich; handwritten: The Observatory; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten: Illustrator; adhered label: LONDON LIGHTS PUT / OBSERVATORY OUT / Royal Greenwich Institution Is / Forced to Get ‘New’ Home - / a 500-Year-Old Castle / By DREW MIDDLETON / By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES / LONDON, April 12 – The Royal / Greenwich Observatory, ,which has / been doing business at the old / stand for a matter of 271 years, / has been forced to move by Lon- / don’s smoke and the glare of the / new-fangled electric lights, and / will take up new quarters at / Hurstmonceux Castle in Sussex.

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