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.2005.004447

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: Brussels Fair March 1958 / 1 [circled]; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / [handwritten]: David Gairnes / [stamped]: from BLACK STAR; 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, and a post office and telegraph office, a bank, travel enquiry / bureau, a left luggage office, shops (incl. pressing service and hair / dresser), a snack bar and restaurant not to mention typists, interpretors [sic.], / guides (Parking for 30,500 cars and 1000 coaches.) 12 seat helicopters / will land beside the bldg.

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