Title: "Italian Chamber of Commerce Banquet to Ambassador Gelasio Ceaetani, St. Francis Hotel San Francisco May 24, 1924" Author: Place: San Francisco Publisher: Date: 1924 Description: Gelatin silver photograph. Captioned in the negative. 24x50 cm (9½x19¾"), framed. Vibrant photograph of the crowd at the St. Francis. Gelasio Caetani of noble birth, had been appointed U.S. ambassador in 1922 by the newly minted Mussolini regime, and here returns to San Francisco, where he had worked as a mining engineer before returning to Italy to fight in the first world war. Lot Amendments Condition: A half inch hole in upper right, affecting only a part of the wall; very good. Item number: 284967
Title: "Italian Chamber of Commerce Banquet to Ambassador Gelasio Ceaetani, St. Francis Hotel San Francisco May 24, 1924" Author: Place: San Francisco Publisher: Date: 1924 Description: Gelatin silver photograph. Captioned in the negative. 24x50 cm (9½x19¾"), framed. Vibrant photograph of the crowd at the St. Francis. Gelasio Caetani of noble birth, had been appointed U.S. ambassador in 1922 by the newly minted Mussolini regime, and here returns to San Francisco, where he had worked as a mining engineer before returning to Italy to fight in the first world war. Lot Amendments Condition: A half inch hole in upper right, affecting only a part of the wall; very good. Item number: 284967
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