Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: GREMIGNANI, Franco
Agency: Pubifoto
Event Date: 1958-04-18
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004437

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: Brussels World Fair; typed on label: [KI]NG BAUDOIN 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 BUILT TO REPRESENT THE ELEMENTAL CRYSTAL / OF THE ATOM. / PICTURE SHOWS:- FAIR VISITORS FLOCK TO SOVIET SECTION / TO ADMIRE THE SOVIET “SPUTNIK”. 18//4//1958 [adhered over stamp]: WORLD’S COPYRIGHT; stamped: Credit: [star shape} / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten: la 32880 / Publifoto –B.S

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