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Naples, Italy
Date: ca 1897
Notes: "A typical group in Naples, Italy...." Note: The infants present in the photo are "swaddled" -- a common practice in Italy until the late 1950s.
Contributed by: Courtesy of the Library of Congress, PPOC

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Casacalenda, Campobasso
Date: Centuries-old
Notes: Family Relationships -- Terms of Address
     
      Prior to World War II individuals in Molise not only addressed their close family members with the appropriate terms of address (e.g. zio and zia for uncle or aunt) but they also honored other types of relationships with the use of a special term of address. Godparents, of course, were called compare. In addition, one's oldest first cousin had a special term of address, as did one's sister-in-law. So, one would not address one's sister-in-law, for example, by her first name, but would use the term of address, "chielle" (spelling???) in front of her name (e.g. Chielle Maria).
Contributed by: Mrs. Carmella DiTullio (as told to Mary Melfi, her great niece)

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Italy
Date: n.d.
Notes: For photos on "Family & Parenting" from Canada and other countries Italians immigrated to see: "Family & Parenting/AROUND THE WORLD."
Contributed by: Image of Christopher Columbus courtesy of The New York Pubic Library, Digital Gallery #1216726

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