Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: HOPPÉ, Emil Otto
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 5 x 7 inches; 12.7 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007368

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: England / [double ended arrow pointing left and right]; stamped on label: MADE IN ENGLAND; handwritten on label: 4 1//8”; stamped on label: For EXAMINATION ONLY / LONDON; typed on label: DID YOU KNOW THAT; handwritten on label: Hotels – [illeg.]; typed on label: the “George” the last of London’s Coaching / Inns, xxx [sic.] was built in 1676. It is the only / London inn left with wooden galleries running / all along the front and it still preserves the / mounting steps and the pistols used by the / guard to scare off highwaymen. It is situated / in Borough High Street and was frequented by / Dickens and Shakespeare. / 1355/1155; handwritten: [illeg.] / 1344 204 / 60 [circled] / H [boxed]; sticker: [star shape] / Return to / BLACKS TAR / 420 LEXINGTON AVE. NEW YORK; stamped: COPYRIGHT. [underlined] / E. O. HOPPÉ – LONDON. / PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE; typed on label: KINDLY RETURN WHEN / FINISHED WITH TO:- / J. M. DENT & SONS LTD / 10, BEDFORD ST., LONDON, W.0.2.; handwritten: cut here / 1699

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LONDON HOTELS / EXT.
Retouching: N