OLD PHOTO - BENITO MUSSOLINI ON TOUR WITH ENTOURAGE - Original. Lwow Poland 1929

Description

Group photo of Benito Mussolini with entourage
A 1929 photograph of 13 aspiring fans of Fascism
from several European countries in entourage
with
Italy's Fascist Duce Benito Mussolini.
Benito Mussolini is seated 3rd from left next
to Carlo Perantoni, honorary Vice-Consul
for Italy's foreign affairs in S.E. Poland.
(Carlo Perantoni: bald with mustache)
In 1929 the photo was taken by
Victor Perantoni in the
courtyard of the
Perantoni family's
"
Winiarnia Italia
"
wine and pasta Inn located at u
lica Sykstuska 29,
Leopoli (Lwow) Poland, in the summer
of 1929.
Benito Mussolini is seated 3rd from left next
to Carlo Perantoni, honorary Vice-Consul
for Italy's foreign affairs in S.E. Poland.
The prior Polish address of
Winiarnia Italia
,
today, is
u
lica Doroshenka 29,
Lviv, Ukraine. The courtyard
where the photo was taken and the building that
surrounds it, still
exist occupied by residents
and business storefronts, same as Carlo
Perantoni and his family had in 1929.
The photo is in excellent condition. It measures approximately 8 ¾ x 6 ⅜ inches.  It was mounted on a 13 ¼ x 11 ⅛ decorative
card stock
mounting board by the original photography atelier “Rembrandt of Lwow” who developed the negative.
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This photo is the only original copy in existence. On 3/1/2007 the photo's '
Visual Material Copyright
' was registered with the United States Copyright Office as "
Unpublished Photograph
.
" Then, it was first published on our website in 2007.  The photo is unsigned / No autographs / Photo atelier's name is embossed.
In 2011 a narrative relating the day the of the photo-shoot was published in the Perantoni family history -'
The War of Lions
'-
I
n 2015 and 2016 it received three awards (Monaco and Milano) for its screenplay adaptation.