Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: GAIRNES, David
Event Date: 1958-03-??
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004391

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: Brussels Fair March 1958 / LB 5028; typed on label: [Pa]alace of Elegance joined to Electrical and Power Bldgs by this arch. / On [l]eft is Credit Insurance bldg. and beyond the Atonium-330 ft. high represents arrangements of atoms in a crystal of metal enlarged 150 million times. / Nine steel spheres, each 59 ft. in diameter are connected by 20 tubes 10 ft. / across and 59 to 72 feet long. The spheres on the lower level have been / leased to various nations. The Soviet Union and Germany have each taken / a whole sphere. U.S. rented half a floor.; stamped: Credit [star shape] / [handwritten] 2[circled] / David Gairnes / [stamped]: from BLACK STAR

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