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Six days after a mine fire in France, when thirty deaths had already been extracted... (colour litho)

2778300 Six days after a mine fire in France, when thirty deaths had already been extracted... (colour litho) by Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: Six days after a mine fire in France, when thirty deaths had already been extracted, a man still alive was found. Attracted by a distant scream, a worker who carried out the latest research found, in fact, three hundred meters deep, a miner holed up in the wreckage. The sight of a man in a mask shocked the hallucinated survivor, who wielded a pickaxe... Then the poor, exhausted, slumped down. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 28 October 1934.); © Look and Learn

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Two against a hundred (colour litho)

2778223 Two against a hundred (colour litho) by Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: Two against a hundred. Intimated the alt, in the middle of the night, to a hundred smugglers who had crossed the Italian border in Val d'Intelvi, two Financial Guards of the Milan Legion were met with revolvers. The daring yellow flames resolutely confronted the criminals, arrested one, and forced the others to flee. On the ground there were 96 crumbs containing thirty quintals of tobacco, sugar and coffee. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 21 January 1934.); © Look and Learn

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An unusual show was seen a few days ago in Naples, in Piazza Plebiscito, which rebounded... (colour litho)

2809024 An unusual show was seen a few days ago in Naples, in Piazza Plebiscito, which rebounded... (colour litho) by Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: An unusual show was seen a few days ago in Naples, in Piazza Plebiscito, which was overflowing with men and women in late eighteenth-century costumes, high-shouting and tumultuously Protestants. They were the extras, more than one thousand three hundred, hired by a German film company for a film on the historical and sentimental events of Admiral Nelson. The agents who collected them had fled with the money intended for their pay. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 14-21 August 1921.); © Look and Learn

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