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.2005.004453

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 INAUGURATE THE WORLD “EXPO” 1958, / THE SYMBOL OF 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 SHOW:- FLAG BEARING LADIES. / 18//4//1958 [affixed over stamp]: WORLD’S COPYRIGHT; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten: Publifoto-B.S

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