Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: EARL, Lawrence
Event Date: 1948
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.006723

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 2//17; handwritten: Prague 48; handwritten: [illeg.]; stamped: BLACK STAR / PICTURES / Cliffords inn, / London, E.C.4; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK; handwritten: Lawrence Earl; typed label: 9. Shops in Prague are if anything more modern than their Western / counterparts. Here is Bata Shoe Store, which with most giant plants / has been nationalized. Complications have set in because the Czech / Government feels Bata Plants in India, America, Canada, etc. should / also belong to them now, while ex-patriot Bata family disagree. / [illeg.]; handwritten: 9

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: CZECHOSLOVAKIA / STORES
Retouching: N