1912, from Bengasi to Caserta, photographic postcard titled BENGASI
DONNA ARABA MABRUCA, showing local woman in traditional dress,
message
1912, from Bengasi to Caserta, photographic postcard titled BENGASI
DONNA ARABA MABRUCA, showing local woman in traditional dress,
message dated 19-12-1912, violet cachet OSPEDALE MIL. re
TERRITORIALE N.1 (Territorial Hospital No. 1) of the Italian
occupation forces in Libya, black cds POSTA MILITARE BENGASI
23-12-12, concessionary military use with no postage required,
mailed by an Italian soldier or medic stationed in Benghazi shortly
after the end of major hostilities in the Italo-Turkish War, rare
early colonial card with strong ethnographic and military context,
intersection of propaganda, medicine and control during the
institutional phase of occupation, ex Kugel, VF! Estimate 200€.