Tripoli è italiana!, 1912 Kingdom of Italy postcard: Photographic postcard under the headline 'Tripoli è italiana!': a young

Tripoli è italiana! (postcard)

Photographic postcard under the headline 'Tripoli è italiana!': a young woman in a mural crown, a national personification of Italy, holds a Savoy tricolour with the royal arms in front of a map of the peninsula whose railways and cities are marked, and the coast of 'Tripolitania' with Tripoli, Bengasi and Derna sits directly below it. The tell: the personified nation and the royal flag are set against a map that joins the two shores, so the new colony is shown as part of Italy's own outline.

Propaganda techniques used in this postcard

Transfer

Date: 1912
Period: Pre-1914
Made by: Italian commercial postcard publisher, series mark F.T.D. 3448 (issuer and photographer not named); made during the Italo-Turkish War, Kingdom of Italy

Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

Region: Western and Central Europe
Country: Kingdom of Italy
Medium: Postcard
Issuer type: Media
Regime: Giolitti Government
Leader: Giovanni Giolitti
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Commemorate
Themes: Empire and colonialism, War and the military
Event: Italo Turkish War
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons (postcard scan credited to Delcampe and Alamy listings), retrieved September 29, 2026
Rights: Public domain (Italian postcard c. 1912, unknown author; Commons tags PD-old-100-expired)
Unknown author and publisher (series mark F.T.D. 3448), Italy, c. 1912; via Wikimedia Commons.

Text on the object

Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked

TRIPOLI
è Italiana!

[map of Italy, city labels:] Venez[ia], Milano, Torino, Genova, Bologna, Pisa, Firenze, ROMA, Foggia, Napoli, Taranto, Palermo, Messina, Siracusa

[map of the Libyan coast:] Tripoli, Bengasi, Derna, TRIPOLITANIA, Mursuk, Ghat

[lower left:] F.T.D.
3448

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

TRIPOLI
is Italian!

[city labels: Venice, Milan, Turin, Genoa, Bologna, Pisa, Florence, ROME, Foggia, Naples, Taranto, Palermo, Messina, Syracuse]

[Libyan coast: Tripoli, Benghazi, Derna, TRIPOLITANIA, Murzuq, Ghat]

[lower left:] F.T.D. 3448

The 'Venez' label is cut by the map edge. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.