Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: PLANET NEWS LTD.
Event Date: 1946-07-04
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 5 x 7 inches; 12.7 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007399

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: London / Market; typed on label: QUEUED HOUR AND A HALF FOR STRAWBERRIES – BOUGHT CHERRIES. / People who had waited in a queue for an hour-and-a-half, / with the temperature at over 80 degrees, in the hope of buying / some strawberries from a street trader in Brixton Market, London, / found when they got to the salesman that all the strawberries / had been sold. So they made do with cherries instead. / PHOTO SHOWS:- The stall, with a small pile of cherries – and no / strawberries. / MIT July 4th 1946 PN.r.; stamped: COPYRIGHT / PLANET NEWS LTD. [star shape] / 3 JOHNSON’S COURT. Credit: / FLEET STREET, E.C.4. / PHONE : CENTRAL 3671//3 / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK

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