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[Portrait of Alessandro Mussolini, father of Benito Mussolini] – Antique Photo Print

[Portrait of Alessandro Mussolini, father of Benito Mussolini] — historic print
[Portrait of Alessandro Mussolini, father of Benito Mussolini]. Historic print 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 print captures [Portrait of Alessandro Mussolini, father of Benito Mussolini] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Portrait of Alessandro Mussolini, father of Benito Mussolini]

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Alessandro Mussolini, a blacksmith from Predappio in the Romagna region of northern Italy, is the subject here, shown as a man in his own right rather than only as the father of Benito Mussolini. He was known for his socialist and anticlerical convictions, and the household where his son was raised reflected those views. The caption card records no date, so the sitting cannot be placed precisely, but the portrait offers a glimpse of the provincial working-class world that produced the future dictator.

Medium1 item.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,135 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126900

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