Chooeubhaokhaossian the Great's Temple of History

Daguerreotype portrait of a group of Italian shepherd musicians known as Pifferari photographed by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey in Rome, the Papal States, 1842.

Source: Sotheby’s.

Daguerreotype view of a crowd in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City taken by an unidentified Italian photographer in Rome, the Papal States, c. 1845. One of the earliest photographs of Vatican City.

Source: The J. Paul Getty Museum.

Carte de visite portrait of a man posing in the excavated ruins of a building in Pompeii, Italy, c. 1860′s.

Source: Library of Congress.

Self-portrait of British photographer Oscar Gustave Rejlander dressed as Italian general and politician Giuseppe Garibaldi, c. 1860.

Source: National Museum of American History.

Carte de visite portrait of Pope Pius IX, c. 1860′s/1870′s. By Paul Emile Pesme.

Source: Rijksmuseum.

A group of Italian POWs in a prison camp during World War 1, location unknown.

Source: Royal Library, Denmark.

Hand-colored stereoview portrait of a woman playing a guitar by Italian-Swiss photographer Giorgio Conrad, c. 1850′s/1860′s.

Source: Rijksmuseum.

Italian soldiers and civilians watching an aerial dogfight between Italian and Austro-Hungarian planes somewhere on the Italian Front during World War 1.

Portrait of an armed Italian soldier wearing Ansaldo body armor during World War 1.

Italian troops of a regiment from Florence resting after a battle on the Italian front during World War 1.

Daguerreotype portrait of a group of artists in Rome, the Papal States, c. 1846. By Philibert Perraud.

Daguerreotype view of the south front of St. Mark's Basilica (on the right), St. Mark's Clocktower, and the Procuratie in Venice, c. 1850. By John Ruskin.

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An American soldier firing a bazooka at an Axis target 300 yards distant near Lucca, Italy, September 7, 1944.

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Daguerreotype of two men posing with an Indian elephant named Fritz in Turin, Italy, c. 1850.

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Daguerreotype view of French troops passing by in a parade held in honor of them returning from Italy, c. 1852.

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A French soldier posing with an Austrian flamethrower captured on the Italian Front during World War 1. Animated stereoview.

Daguerreotype panoramic view of Rome taken from Trajan's Column, 1842. By Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey.

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