Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: A.B.C. PRESS SERVICE
Photographer: RONA, I.
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004876

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, stamped: HOLLAND [struck through]; handwritten [in pencil]: Belgium / [illeg.]; handwritten [in pencil]: [1?]2 [circled]; stamped [upside down]: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; stamped: Photo: A. B. [C.] [illeg.] / Copyright by / A.B.C. PRESS SERVICE / (I. RONA) / AMSTERDAM, C. – N.Z. VOORBURGWAL 347 / Telefoon 35798; typed [on adhered label]: 12. It wasn’t easy to get him to drink a glass of beer, / because he first had to change all his clothes. He didn’t / want to be photographed in his plain every-day suit. / Later, I was permitted to photograph him at his hobby.; stamped: [2?]876/6.

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