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[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1935(?). Close-up of Abyssinian chieftain with rifle on shoulder] – Historic Print

[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1935(?). Close-up of Abyssinian chieftain with rifle on shoulder] — historic photograph
[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1935(?). Close-up of Abyssinian chieftain with rifle on shoulder]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1935(?). Close-up of Abyssinian chieftain with rifle on shoulder] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1935(?). Close-up of Abyssinian chieftain with rifle on shoulder]

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Few pictures on this board show an Ethiopian fighter this close, with a rifle slung across his shoulder and his face clearly visible. The record places it in Addis Ababa around 1935, though the date carries a question mark and the caption card has been revised over time. The card's tracings link it to the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935 to 1936, when Italian forces invaded Ethiopia and wire services such as International News Photos sent images of the conflict to newspapers abroad. Pictures like this one gave American readers a human face on a war that was often reported from a distance.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1935?]
SubjectsPhoto by International News Photos. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Italo-E. War, 1935-1936--Misc.; Ethiopia--A- A-; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139664

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