Foreign Press Service Photographs
from the Arthur Livingston Papers
Literary File, Photography Collection
89 items (1 box)
Acquisition: Internal transfers
Access: Open for research
Processed by: Mary Foster and Susan McClellan, 2006
RLIN Record ID: None
Table of Contents
Scope and Contents
The Foreign Press Service Literary File consists of 89 photographs, many of which are portraits of prominent Italian intellectuals of the first half of the 20th century, including Roberto Bracco, Benedetto Croce, Giovanni Gentile, Luigi Pirandello, Mario Puccini, Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo, and Margherita Sarfatti. There are also photographs of Benito Mussolini, members of his family, and various other people associated with him, as well as views of his native town, Predappio, Italy. An index at the end of this guide lists photographers whose work is featured in this file. Further descriptions of some items are available in a card catalog in the repository.
This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection, which is comprised of photographs and albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally include portraits and images collected by or of those figures.
*All are located at PH:LF:Foreign Press Service.
Item List
| Accession / P No. | Description |
| P1 | Portrait of Enrico Pea. |
| P2 | Portrait of Marco Praga. |
| P3A-P3B | 2 variant portraits of Giuseppe Prezzolini. |
| P4A-P4C | Portraits of Mario Puccini (P4A-P4B are variant photographic postcards, both are signed: "Mario Puccini, 1923"). |
| P5 | Portrait of Ardengo Soffici. |
| P6A-P6E | Portraits of Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo. |
| P7A-P7B | Portraits of Luigi Sturzo. |
| P8 | Portrait of André Tardieu. |
| P9 | Photographic postcard portrait of the Marchese Senatore Vilfredo Pareto. |
| P10 | Portrait of "Senorita Niny Volio." |
| P11A-P11B | Duplicate photographic postcard portraits of Giovanni Giolitti. |
| P12A-P12D | Portraits of Horacio Quiroga (P12B is a photographic postcard; P12C-P12D are photographic reproductions of a drawing). |
| P13A-P13G | 2 different portraits of Miss Loschi (2 prints of 1 portrait and 5 of the other). |
| P14 | Portrait of Fausto Maria Martini. |
| P15 | Portrait of Gabriele d'Annunzio. |
| P16 | Image of "The Duchess of Gallese, wife of Gabriele d'Annunzio." |
| P17 | View of an Italian city (Gallese?). |
| P18A-P18C | Photographic postcard portraits of Benito Mussolini (P18A and P18B are duplicates). |
| P19 | Photographic postcard of Mussolini's daughter (as a child) playing a violin. |
| P20 | Group portrait of 6 men and 1 woman, all unidentified, around a table in a cafe in Predappio, Italy, Mussolini's native town. |
| P21 | View of Predappio, Italy. |
| P22 | View of Predappio from the window of the house where Mussolini was born. |
| P23A-P23B, P24A-P24B, P25 | Portraits of Princess Norina Matchabelli. |
| P26 | Image of Luigi Pirandello (left) and an unidentified man. |
| P27 | Portrait of "Sig. Antonievich, Rappresentante della Yugoslavia a Roma." |
| P28 | Image of several men emerging from a building, featuring Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister Momchilo Ninchich, Serb President Nikola Pasich, and Benito Mussolini. |
| P29 | Portrait of Momchilo Ninchich seated at a desk. |
| P30 | Portrait of Giovanni Gentile. |
| P31-P33, P34A-P34B, P35 | Portraits of Luigi Pirandello. |
| P36 | Photographic postcard portrait of Massimo Bontempelli. |
| P37 | Portrait of Giuseppe Antonio Borgese. |
| P38 | Portrait of Salvator Gotta. |
| P39 | Portrait of Salvatore Bellasich. |
| P40 | Portrait of Luigi Chiarelli. |
| P41 | Portrait of Franco Ciarlantini. |
| P42 | Portrait of Dante Dini. |
| P43 | Portrait of Ernesto Buonaiuti. |
| P44A-P44C | Portraits of Roberto Bracco. |
| P45 | Photographic postcard portrait of Virgilio Bondois. |
| P46A-P46B | Duplicate prints of a portrait of Antonio Beltramelli. |
| P47A-P47B | Portraits of Benedetto Croce. |
| P48 | Portrait of Ercole Luigi Morselli. |
| P49A-P49B | Portraits of Maria Melato as Circe in Morselli's Glauco. |
| P50 | Portrait of Signora Ferrario in Morselli's Glauco. |
| P51 | Portrait of A. [Annibale?] Betrone in the title role of Morselli's Glauco. |
| P52 | Photographic postcard portrait of Dario Niccodemi. |
| P53 | Portrait of A. Negri. |
| P54 | Portrait of Alfredo Panzini. |
| P55A-P55B | Portraits of Signora Margherita Sarfatti alone (P55A) and with her daughter Fiammetta (P55B). |
| P56 | Group portrait of Signora Mussolini and her children, Edda, Vittorio and Bruno. |
| P57A | Image of Mussolini and the mayor of Rome emerging from a building. |
| P57B | Image of Mussolini marching with men in uniform identified by inscription on verso as "his boys." |
| P58A | Image of boys in uniform standing at attention, identified by inscription on verso as "Fascisti boy scouts." |
| P58B | View of a crowd of people saluting in a square; inscribed on verso: "Just a friendly visit of the Fascisti to Mussolini - who stands in the balcony of the Foreign Office." |
Index of Photographers
Benassi, Giuseppe--P45
Bettini (Rome, Italy)--P2, P14
Bolognesi & Orsini:--P34A-P34B
Caminada, G.--P15, P18C, P19
Foto Bayer--P4A-P4B
Gatti, A., photographer--P27
Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942--P23A-P23B
Hernandez hermanos--P10
Lembo, Ferdinando--P47B
Lüscher, Jacques, 1876-1956--P9
Manuel, Henri--P8
Porry Pastorel, Adolfo--P7A, P28, P35, P57A-P57B, P58A-P58B
S. F. R. A. I.--P32
Sommariva, Emilio--P37
Varischi & Artico--P33
Vettori (Bologna, Italy)--P18A-P18B
Zaccaria, G.--P25
(Last modified: 17 March 2008)
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