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War Poster Ritorneremo We Will Return Italian Colonies Africa WWII
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Original vintage World War Two poster commemorating the loss of the Italian colonies of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somaliland and Somalia in Africa in May 1943, the poster features an elderly soldier with a child on his shoulder, the text below the image in white over blue background reads - Where we were, where our dead await us, where we have left powerful and indestructible traces of our civilization, we will return / La dove fummo, la dove i nostri morti ci attendono, la dove noi abbiamo la sciato tracce potenti e indistruttibili della nostra civilta, la noi Ritorneremo - the caption in red over the image translates to - Italy and Africa work of Italian civilization on the African continent. 754 schools, 44 hospitals, 127 clinics, 70 infirmaries; thousands of buildings, 29,000 kilometres of roads, 2,930 kilometres of railways, 8,000 kilometres of tracks, 265 bridges; 307919 hectares of land reclaimed or cultivated, 2088 farmhouses; 1688 water and electricity works, 13650 industrial and commercial companies. Large size. Fair condition, folds, tears, creasing, staining, small paper losses, restored paper loss on image, tape on reverse. Country of issue: Italy, designer: G.Bertoletti, size (cm): 139x99, year of printing: 1943.
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Original vintage World War Two poster commemorating the loss of the Italian colonies of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somaliland and Somalia in Africa in May 1943, the poster features an elderly soldier with a child on his shoulder, the text below the image in white over blue background reads - Where we were, where our dead await us, where we have left powerful and indestructible traces of our civilization, we will return / La dove fummo, la dove i nostri morti ci attendono, la dove noi abbiamo la sciato tracce potenti e indistruttibili della nostra civilta, la noi Ritorneremo - the caption in red over the image translates to - Italy and Africa work of Italian civilization on the African continent. 754 schools, 44 hospitals, 127 clinics, 70 infirmaries; thousands of buildings, 29,000 kilometres of roads, 2,930 kilometres of railways, 8,000 kilometres of tracks, 265 bridges; 307919 hectares of land reclaimed or cultivated, 2088 farmhouses; 1688 water and electricity works, 13650 industrial and commercial companies. Large size. Fair condition, folds, tears, creasing, staining, small paper losses, restored paper loss on image, tape on reverse. Country of issue: Italy, designer: G.Bertoletti, size (cm): 139x99, year of printing: 1943.
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