Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: Jenkins, Nancy
Event Date: 1947-??-??
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.005047

Inscriptions:
mount recto, [no inscription]; mount verso, handwritten: BUL 10. / Bulgaria 47; typed on label: Life Behind the Iron Curtain. / A family goes shopping in Sofia’s / market. There is not much to eat / except a wide selection of vegetables / for food is scarce and strictly rationed / with heavy penalties for Black-market- / eering. Before the war Bulgaria was / self-supporting but droughts and / presence of Red Troops has seriously / drained her resources, as these soldiers / live on local produce. / The husbands long flowing overcoat / suggests Ruritania, uniforms abound, / sometimes they belong to the Army or / the ever increasing militia but as often / as not they merely belong to the postman / or railway man.; handwritten: Types; stamped: COPYRIGHT / NANCY JENKINS . MRS. CRAWSHAW, / 88, PORTLAND PLACE, / LONDON, W.1 / WELBECK 2683 / Credit: [star shape] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BULGARIA / PEOPLE
Retouching: N