Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.002806

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Albania / People / [illeg.]; handwritten: 8; typed label: 8. A pre-war palace guard in his traditional uniform. Zog’s / eighteen year reign was only the second in Albani’s [sic] long history. / Her first ruler or Mpret, was the German prince William of Wied, / who ascended the throne in March 1914 after Albania threw off / Turkish rule and was proclaimed an independent state in 1913. / But he left five months later and the country had to wait until / 1925 before it finally achieved full independence. Today it is / once again under “the protection” of a foreign power.; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK; handwritten: Hullan [could be Hulton] Press

Tagasauris Keywords: 1 person; Albania; Arts, culture and entertainment; Costume; Day; Fez; Folk costume; Full length; Indoors; Male; Male; Mid adult; Pistol; Vestibule
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: ALBANIA / PEOPLE/MEN
Retouching: N