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.2005.004448

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: Brussels Fair March 1958; typed on label: 1- Reception Hall, one of the buildings used for previous (1935) fairs, / gets a face lift. Inside are being prepared facilities for the / reception of the 35 million visitors expected. Elaborate preparations / are being made for the welfare of visitors: they include daytime hotel, / where one can bathe, relax and write letters home, a post and telegraph / office, a bank, a travel enquiry bureau, a left luggage office, shops / (including a pressing service and hair dresser) a snack bar and restaurant / not to mention typists, interpreters, guides (Parking for 30,500 cars and / 1000 coaches) 12 seat helicopters will land beside the building.; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / [handwritten: David Gairnes / [stamped]: from BLACK STAR

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