Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: ANDREWS, Mike
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 11 x 14 inches; 27.94 x 35.56 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.001389

Inscriptions:
Captions: Verso: BermudaVerso: AMERICAN BASES IN BERMUDA / The main entrance to Kindley Air Force Base. The Base was / constructed after the signing of the 1941 agreement which provided / for the free lease of the land for a period of 99 years. Except / for a nuclei of small islands, the entire runway area is filled / land, dredged from the bottom of adjacent Castle Harbour. Filling / in this area increased the total land area of Bermuda by one / twentieth - to 21 square miles. Cost of the original construction / was 42 million dollars, of which 10 1/2 million dollars went for / dredging alone. / Picture by MIKE ANDREWS. / Copyright: Bell, Howarth Ltd., 56, Fleet Street, E.C.4.Markings:Verso: BermudaVerso: AMERICAN BASES IN BERMUDA / The main entrance to Kindley Air Force Base. The Base was / constructed after the signing of the 1941 agreement which provided / for the free lease of the land for a period of 99 years. Except / for a nuclei of small islands, the entire runway area is filled / land, dredged from the bottom of adjacent Castle Harbour. Filling / in this area increased the total land area of Bermuda by one / twentieth - to 21 square miles. Cost of the original construction / was 42 million dollars, of which 10 1/2 million dollars went for / dredging alone. / Picture by MIKE ANDREWS. / Copyright: Bell, Howarth Ltd., 56, Fleet Street, E.C.4.

Tagasauris Keywords: 1 person; 1 person; Architecture; Bermuda; Building; Check Point; Day; Full-Length Portrait; Grass; Kindley Air Force Base; Male; Mid adult; Motorcycle; No Photostyle; Outdoors; USCG Air-Sea Rescue, at USAF Base, Kindley Field; United States Air Force; Unrest, conflicts and war
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BERMUDA / AMERICAN BASES
Retouching: N