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Thru special arrangement with the Italian government [...] the Italian battlefront – Historic Reproduction

Thru special arrangement with the Italian government [...] the Italian battlefront, [1918] — vintage poster
Thru special arrangement with the Italian government [...] the Italian battlefront, [1918]. Vintage poster from the Pittsburgh 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 vintage poster captures Thru special arrangement with the Italian government [...] the Italian battlefront in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few wartime posters on this board advertise a film about Italy's front, and this one stands out for its claim of an arrangement with the Italian government, which suggests the footage was official rather than commercial invention. Printed in color in 1918, it was pasted up to announce a week-long run at a local theater beginning Monday, July 15. By that summer, Italy had been fighting Austria-Hungary for three years, and the June fighting along the Piave River was still fresh, so a film promising scenes from that front drew on both patriotic interest and curiosity about a theater of war far from the Western Front.

Created / published[1918]
Medium1 print (poster) : color ; 103 x 72 cm.
GenreWar posters American 1910-1920.Motion picture posters American 1910-1920.Prints Color 1910-1920.
NotesPrinted paste-on: Isis Theatre entire week starting Monday July 15.
SubjectsWorld War, 1914-1918--Communications--United States. Propaganda--Italian--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,795 × 4,706 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221483

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