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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.2005.004396

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: Brussels Fair March 1958 / 7; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / handwritten: David Gairnes / [stamped: from BLACK STAR; typed on label: FOREIGN SECTION-PAVILION OF THE HOLY SEE / Twenty sixcountries [sic.] are participating in the eshibits [sic.] of the Holy See which / represents a survy of the Christian community. The Holy See Pavilion is / among the five largest of the Foreign Section and consists of a number of / buildings sheltered behind a high wall and symbolizing “civitas Dei” (city / of God). Towering high above the pavilion is a church, shown here, capable / [illeg.]ting 2,500 worhsippers[sic.].

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