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Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: MODLENS, Joseph
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.009799

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: London / street / People; typed label: LONDON – A street entertainer taps out a tune on a pair of spoons while his / wife grinds the organ on a Chelsea District street in London. They move from / block to block as people throw coins from their windows. Note tattered British / flag on back of [illeg.]. The street is Draycott Place.; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped: Photo by / JOSEPH MODLENS / [illeg.]; stamped: Photograph By / Joseph Modlens / 6616 Cockerille Avenue / Takoma Park 12, Md. / Sligo 6026

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