Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: GREMIGNANI, Franco
Agency: PUBLIFOTO AGENCY
Event Date: 1958-04-18
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004467

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: Brussels Fair / Belgium; typed on label: KING BAUDOIN INAUGURATES WORLD FAIR 1958. / BRUXELLES [sic.] 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:- TOURISTS IN THE FAIR GROUNDS ON THE DAY / OF THE OPENING / 18//4//1958 [affixed over stamp]: WORLD’S COPYRIGHT; 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
Retouching: N