behind the smoking captain's chair
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This is an original 1894 black and white print ad for the hay loader and rake farm machine that was made by the Keystone Manufacturing Company
Wood-engraved photographs
This piece was illustrated by Rosset-Granger
1934 Print Paolina Belluci Children Naples Napoli Italy Italia Benito FZ3 XAIA5 behind the smoking captain's chairThis is an original 1934 halftone print of Italian children with their parents. The caption writes, "Robust, buoyant, fecund are the women Il Duce admires. His ideal is Paolina Belluci of Naples, who won the Fascist blue ribbon last winter for her twenty children. Ninety two champion mothers totaled 1,288 children." To fruitful mothers, Benito Mussolini offered reduced taxes, prizes, free services and goods, and cheap vacations in order to raise the