Photo Collections

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29 large format photos of the Italian presence in Ethiopia. Shows damaged buildings; physical military training of Ethiopian youth; Duca d’Aosta; military families; local habitation; local markets; drawing water; local types; Coptic art; local child with a camera; Mussolini portrait on Gondar fortress; crossing a river at Mai Buie; Fantasia; Libyan Maharistes. No captions. B

Price: $850.00

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4 Luce photos showing fascist architecture and motifs in Eritrea and Ethiopia. B

Price: $200.00

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7 photos with the stamp of the Foto-Cinematography Section from the Amara Governors office showing the Italians building an aqueduct for the Gondar market. The photographer was with the 1st Company IDRICI (“WATER”). Taken during the time of the festivities dedicated to Santa Barbara (December 3-5, 11) who is the patron saint of engineers. This makes sense as our photographer was an engineer. Captioned on reverse. B

Price: $300.00

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6 photos on postcard stock of Ethiopian life during the Occupation. The photographer was something of an artist. B

Price: $180.00

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Photo collection of an Italian military engineer named Pietro Colacatts, who is overseeing a quarrying and stone crushing operation at Voliso (Waliso), roughly 114km southwest of Addis Abeba, in 1937. Most photos with legible captions on reverse. 11 photos.B

Price: $200.00

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Two 19th century photos from Eritrea, showing named officers with local females and a spouse returning from her wedding. B

Price: $80.00

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Photo album belonging to an officer with the 128th Battery of the 5th Blackshirt (CC.NN.) Division "1 Febbraio", based in Eritrea from 1935-1939. 300 photos (of which roughly 20 are commercial), all legibly captioned, plus a number of photos showing his earlier life at home and in the military. By November 21, 1935 he is in Massawa. Shown are him with Eritrean ascaris; hunting; Eritrean upper class posing for photos; local chiefs; Muslim festivals; local food preparation; locals exchanging goods; different local types; fraternity of the Italian soldiers and local children; camp life; the mountain chain of the devil “climbed by legionnaires of 1st February for the first time”; comical photo of our photographer switching clothes with an Ascari; photo of Division commander Attilio Teruzzi; the act of submission with local Ethiopian chiefs waiting to be received in front of General Teurzzi’s tent; collection of photos of a visit of Marshall Graziani to Asmara; Eritrean Governor Giuseppe Daodice opening a bar for the Division; standing in front of the monument to Giuseppe Galliano, an interesting collage of 12 photos called “a silent page of lived history” which shows the aftermath of an Italian victory; Mascal festival in Asmara; Ascari fantasia; the Axum obelisk, eth403a1ETH 403eth403a2ETH 403important photos with description of the religious points at Axum, such as the throne of David where the Negus sat, the tub where the Negus took his purification bath before ascending the throne. Our photographer describes the church at Axum as “the legend says that it was made by will of the eternal father, with the gold he rained down on the place where it is. In the opposite enclosure the Negus were crowned, on the throne of David. access to women is prohibited in it.” He points out the tombs of Emperor Johannes and ancient hieroglyphics. Rare photo of Degiac Ghellase, son or Ras Bairu, educated as a surveyor in Rome who built lake Mai Scium and built the ghebi at Axum. He died before 1930. Rare photo of the dismantling of the Axum obelisk and its transfer to Rome. Interesting photo of the business of the Muslim Hagi Ata Amed. Also shown are the Holy Saturday festival of April 8, 1939. Places shown are Salacla, crossing the Tacazze River, Mai Buia, Tzerima, Debra Lion, Dembenguina, Cheren, Asmara, Axum, Mai Scium. The album ends with him in Massawa in July 1940, so he likely spent WW2 there, despite the fact that the 5th CCNN Division had been disbanded shortly after the conquest of Ethiopia. eth403a3ETH 403eth403a4ETH 403A superb album. B

Price: $1800.00

Note from Wikipedia: The 5th CC.NN. Division "1 Febbraio" (Italian: 5ª Divisione CC.NN. "1 Febbraio") was an Italian CC.NN. (Blackshirts militia) division raised on 15 July 1935 for the Second Italo-Ethiopian War against Ethiopia and disbanded shortly after the war. The name "1 Febbraio" was chosen to commemorate the founding of the Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale on 1 February 1923. The division engaged in war crimes in Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

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11 large photos of what, on first look appears to be the first Grand Prix race in Asmara ("Primo Circuito di Asmara"), on Christmas Day, 1938. However, it is far more likely the very first race of the newly formed Italian automobile club in Asmara, which was the 26 km Nefasit to Asmara Hillclimb for the "Coppa del Governatore dell’Eritrea" on 23 May 1937. Rare. B

Price: $900.00

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Fascinating 19th century photo from Eritrea. Translated, it is titled A Second hand Family in Departure. It shows senior Italian officer Captain Doctor Negroni (Black) dressed in local clothing, his interpreter, “little devils” and There……the Black Lady (Negroni). The play on words is interesting. Clearly the black lady is not the Captains wife, but his mistress. Most likely the name of the Italian is not Negroni (Black). The two “little devils” are likely slaves. B

Price: $150.00

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Two large photos of preparation for a Mascal festival, 1936.B

Price: $100.00

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