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Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Attributed to: OWEN
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.004964

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten [in pencil]: Belgium / Bruges; typed: 200036. Brugge-Rozenkrasrei. / neg. 9841-10; imprinted [on adhered label]: [star shape] BLACK STAR [dot] NEW YORK 17 / 420 LEXINGTON AVENUE [dot] GRAYBAR BUILDING / [line]; handwritten [in pencil]: Owen; imprinted [on adhered label]: POSTMASTER – MAY BE OPENED FOR INSPECTI[ON - RETURN POSTAGE GAURANTEED]; typed [on adhered label]: Bruges [underlined] Black Star [underlined] / 10265 Every Monday and Wednesday evening the celebrated / carillon concerts take place. They are played in the belfry / of the tower. The audience sits in the market place and lis / ten breathlessly to this song of the bells, which seems to / transport one back through the ages to the times when the / knights held their tournaments in this same market place.

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