Mussolini – Antique Print
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Mussolini in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Benito Mussolini, the Italian Fascist leader, is the subject of this glass negative, one of the portraits the Bain News Service produced and distributed to newspapers. The George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress holds many thousands of such negatives, mostly made in New York and Washington in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the title comes from caption information the agency wrote on the negative or its card, which was not independently verified. Mussolini rose to power in Italy in 1922 and ruled as prime minister and dictator for two decades, so pictures of him circulated widely in the American press during that period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,710 × 5,060 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-38130 |
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