Colonel Augusto Villa, Mid. Attache Italian Embassy, 8/25/25 – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Colonel Augusto Villa, Mid. Attache Italian Embassy, 8/25/25, [19]25 August 25. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b1/b1327c3e352d-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Colonel Augusto Villa, Mid. Attache Italian Embassy, 8/25/25, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Colonel Augusto Villa, Mid. Attache Italian Embassy, 8/25/25
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Colonel Augusto Villa, listed in the title as middle attaché of the Italian Embassy, sat for this portrait on August 25, 1925, according to the date recorded with the negative. The National Photo Company, a Washington studio active from the 1910s into the 1930s, made many portraits of diplomats, officials, and visitors to the capital, and sittings like this one capture the embassy staff of the period. The streaks and blemishes on the glass are natural deterioration of the original coatings, and they are worth noticing as a reminder of the negative's age.
| Created / published | [19]25 August 25. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch three. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 4,263 × 5,229 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-243476 |
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