Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: PUBLIFOTO AGENCY
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.2005.004469

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: Brussel [sic.] Fair / Belgium; typed on label: KING BAUDOING INAUGURATES WORLD FAIR 1958. / BRUXELLES [sic.], 17 APRIL 1958 : KING BAUDOIN OF THE / BELGIANS TODAY INAUGURATED THE WORLD “EXPO” 1958. / THE SYMBOL OF THE FAIR IS THE “WONDER OF THE / WONDER”, THE 320-FOOT-HIGH “ATOMIUM”, AN IMPRESSIVE / STRUCTURE BUILT TO REPRESENT THE ELEMENTAL CRYSTAL OF / THE ATOM. / PICTURE SHOW: FAIR VISITORS LOOKING AT A PLASTIC MODEL / OF THE MOSCOV METROPOLITANA. / 18//4//1958 [affixed over stamp]: [CO]PYRIGHT; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten: Publifoto – BS

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