Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: PUBLIFOTO
Photographer: GREMIGNANI, Franco
Event Date: 1958-04-18
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004428

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, hand written: Brussels Fair / RS; typed on label: KING BAUDOING INAUGURATES WORLD FAIR 1958. / BRUXELLES [sic.], 17 APRIL 1958 : KING BAUDOIN OF THE / BELGIANS TODAY INAUGURATED THE WORLD “EXPO” 1958, / THE SYMBOL OF THE FAIR IS “THE WONDER OF THE / WONDERS”, THE 320-FOOT HIGH “ATOMIUM”, AN IMPRESSIVE / STRUCTURE BIILT TO REPRESENT THE ELEMENTAL CRYSTAL / OF THE ATM [sic.]. / PICTURE SHOWS: THE OVERCROWDED SOVIET PAVILLON [sic.] / 18//4//[1958]; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; hand written: [l?N?]a 32880 / LB 5028 / Publifoto –B.S / C [circled] Publifoto

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