Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: DORIEN LEIGH LTD.
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 5 x 7 inches; 12.7 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007398

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, typed on label: CURIOUS SHOPS.; handwritten: England / London / Market; typed on label: There is a strange little shop in Billingsgate / which makes hats for the fish porters. The hats / are quite unique, being leather billycocks of / the particular shape fancied by the porters. A / is practically; stamped on label: [star shape]; typed on label: everlasting, in spite of heavy / wear, and costs about £2. 1355//; stamped on label: Credit:; stamped: DORIEN LEIGH LTD. / from BLACK STAR / LUDGATE HOUSE, / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK / 107, FLEET ST., E.C.4. / CENTRAL 1847; handwritten: 1355-3012; stamped: ON LOAN / VALUABLE ORIGINAL

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