Notes: Title: "Italian family living 428 E. 116th St. 2 floor back. They were so illiterate I couldn't get their names. have been in U.S. only one month. Mother is learning to make lace for factory near by." Photo: Lewis Wickes Hine.
Contributed by: Courtesy of the Library of Congress, PPOC
Notes: This beautiful hand-made crochet tablecloth (tavaglie all'umciuetto) was done by Teresa Ferrara in Montreal with skills picked up in Italy in the late 1940s.
Photo: Mary Melfi.