Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1945-08-16
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 5 x 7 inches; 12.7 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.009852

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: London / Church; typed label: LONDON’S PEACE LIGHTS SHINE / THROUGH THE RUINS / PHOTO SHOWS:- The cross on the / floodlit dome of St. Paul’s / Cathedral, and the figure of / Justice on the Old Bailey, / shine out across the City towards / a heavily-bombed area between / Farringdon-road and Fetter-lane, / as London’s peace lights / celebrate the end of the war. / Andrews Planet August 16 1945 PN; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped: COPYRIGHT / PLANET NEWS LTD. / 3 JOHNSON’S COURT / LONDON E.C.4. / [illeg.]

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