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italian peasants contadini
Italy
Date: 1908
Notes: The image was taken from the book, "Home Life in Italy, Letters from the Apennines," by Lina Duff Gordon (London: Methuen, 1908). Caption: "Foster Mother."
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italian swaddled infant
Italy
Date: 1878
Notes: The image was taken from the book, "Italian Pictures drawn with pen and pencil" by the late Rev. Samuel Manning (Piccadilly: The Religious Tract Society, 1878). Caption: Peasant children of the campagna.
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Naples, Campania, Italy
Date: ca 1900
Notes: Children eating spaghetti.
Contributed by: Image Courtesy of the Library of Congress #07961r

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Marane Palazzo, Italy
Date: 1915
Notes: My grandfather and grandmother with family and friends before they were married.
Contributed by: Jacqueline Centofanti

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Carini, Sicily
Date: 1943
Notes: My father and aunt Giuseppe and Antonina Vitale.
Contributed by: Antonella Vitale

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Italian children 1910s
Casacalenda, Molise, Italy
Date: mid 1910s
Notes: Here is a picture of Raffaele Di Tullio, a baby boy, dressed in a then fashionable smock.
Contributed by: Madeleine

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Campobasso, Italy (maybe)
Date: 1908
Notes: This is my grandmother, Maria Giuseppa Izzi 2 years old,who was visiting her grandparents, Ayunta& Giorgio Palmisciano in Scapoli,Campobasso, Insernia, italy.
Contributed by: Serena Wells

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Casacalenda, Molise, Italy
Date: early 1950s
Notes: Here is a photo of contributor. In the 1950s photographers in the countryside often asked children to stand on chairs as their tripods weren't very flexible.
Contributed by: Madeleine

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Lanciano, Abruzzo, Italy
Date: 1921
Notes: Here is a portrait of Paolina Bussoli and her daughter, Pierina.
Contributed by: Pauline Fresco

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Casacalenda, Molise, Italy
Date: May 1951
Notes: Here is a picture of Susie Melfi and Michael Pietrantonio standing next to one of Casacalenda's numerous water pumps.
Contributed by: Rosina Melfi

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