Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: KOENIG, Edo
Event Date: 1958-04-17
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004385

Inscriptions:
recto, watermarked: [star shape, graphic] 58; verso, stamped: SÉRIE : 15 8 0 0 No. [handwritten]: 7; typed on label: The Atomium / The Atomium consists of nine spheres each 59 feet in diameter, / representing the nine atoms in a crystal of metal arranged in the / centred-cubic system. Those are linked by tubular metal construction / ten feet in diameter. The Atomium will rise to a height of 360 feet / and will weigh: 1,500 tons.; stamped: Edo Koenig / BONN // Rh. / Bundespressehaus 5 / Tel.: 4 19 25 / Credit: [star shape] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BELGIUM / FAIRS: ATOMIUM
Retouching: N