Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: DORIEN LEIGH LTD.
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007383

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: England; stamped: LONDON; handwritten: Market; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / DORIEN LEIGH LTD.; handwritten: B.S. London; stamped on label [struck through]: LUDGATE HOUSE, / 107, FLEET ST., E.C.4. / CENTRAL 1847.; stamped: from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; typed on label: CHIEF LAMBO WANTS TO SLEEP SOFT / Chief Lambo Ajagra, the Otunbade of Igbore, Abeokutu, / Nigeria (how’s that for a postal address?), thought / he’d buy a bedstead, so he paid a visit to the / Caledonian Market. His interpreter did some heavy / bargaining, while the crowd had an eyeful of the chief / who likes to sleep soft. M. A. K. 52; handwritten: M.A.K. 52 / 1070 Var

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