Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: A.B.C. PRESS SERVICE
Photographer: RONA, I.
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 5 x 7 inches; 12.7 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004959

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten [in pencil]: 7; handwritten [in pencil]: LB5028; handwritten [in pencil]: Belgium; handwritten [in pencil]: [Beuelué?]; stamped [sideways]: Photo: A. B. C. -/ Copyright by / A.B.C. PRESS SERVICE / (I. RONA) / AMSTERDAM, C. – N.Z. VOORBURGWAL 347 / Telefoon 35798; stamped [sideways]: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten [in pencil]: 4893; typed [on adhered label]: 7. Prices in Belgium at the moment ate [sic] 200 – 300 percent higher than / those before the war. Abolition of government subsidies for food- / XXXXXXX stuffs caused a new rice [sic] in prices. Black marketers are / Public Enemy No. 1 in Belgium too. For taxis you paid fes [sic]. 2 per / Km. before the war, todays fes [sic]. 6. Poster in background says: “do / not let abuse yourself. Do not buy for any price.

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