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.2005.004439

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: Brussels World Fair; typed on label: KING 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 WHICH 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:- PARTICULAR OF THE SOVIET PAVILLON [sic.]. / 18//4//1958; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / from BLACK STAR / BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten: Publifoto – B.S

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