1934 Print Paolina Belluci Children Naples Napoli Italy Italia Benito FZ3 XAIA5 Wood-engraved photographs

Wood-engraved photographs

Covering and Wire-Stitching Machine from the Dexter Folder Company

Please note that there are some light lines or scratches in various locations in the print

behind the smoking captain's chair

There is some light surface rub in the outer margins--please see image

1934 Print Paolina Belluci Children Naples Napoli Italy Italia Benito FZ3 XAIA5 Wood-engraved photographsThis 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