Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1946-03-10
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.009804

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: London / St People; typed label: EX-SOLDIER, LOOKING FOR A HOME, IS HIS OWN “SANDWICH-MAN”. / Anthony gray of Westminster, an ex-soldier released from the Army / six months ago, has been looking ever since for a home for his wife, / his child, and himself – and in overcrowded London he cannot find / one. Now he has been driven to the sensational course of standing / in Oxford Circus with a couple of placards worn like sandwich - / boards round his neck, advertising his plight. / PHOTO SHOWS:- Mr. Anthony Gray, standing at the corner of the / street in Oxford Circus, London, wearing his “sandwich-boards” - / CHIT 10 March 1946 PN; stamped: COPYRIGHT / PLANET NEWS LTD. / 3 JOHNSON’S COURT / FLEET STREET, E.C.4. / PHONE: CENTRAL 3671//3; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK

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