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Italian immigrant workers
U.S.A.
Date: ca. 1900-1940
Notes: The photo was taken by Darius Kinsey; its image caption reads, "Italians."
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Italian immigrants
Kempton, West Virginia, U.S.A.
Date: May 1939
Notes: Title: "Italian coal miner with his grandchild, Kempton, West Virginia." Photo: John Vachon.
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Italian immigrants
New York City, U.S.A.
Date: ca 1940 and 1946
Notes: Title: "Urban America. An Italian organ grinder serenades the residents of a Riverside Drive, New York City apartment house with his barrel organ."
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Italian immigrant workers
New York State Barge Canal
Date: 1912
Notes: The photo taken by Lewis W. Hine is titled, "The Bunk house of an Italian worker on New York State Barge Canal."
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Italian immigrants
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date: February 1, 1917
Notes: "Vincenzo Messina, 15 years old and brother Angelo, 11 years old, baking bread for father, 174 Salem Street. Vincenzo is working nights now, from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. Usually works on day shift. Angelo helps a great deal, tends store and helps bake too." Digital ID: 05178.
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Italian immigrants
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date: February 1, 1917
Notes: "Vincenzo Messina, 15 years old and brother Angelo, 11 years old, baking bread for father, 174 Salem Street. Vincenzo is working nights now, from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. Usually works on day shift. Angelo helps a great deal, tends store and helps bake too." Notes and photo: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 05177.
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Italian immigrants
Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date: August 1912
Notes: "Home and fruit stand of the Cavicchio family. 64 Bedford Street. Somerville, Mass. Both the mother and Mary, 10 years old, worked off and on all day out here with the soot from the passing engines dropping so fast it had to be shaken off. A new tunnel is being dug in front of the house. Mother and Mary tend the fruit stand while crocheting and the work is thrown over the railing and fence near by. Their garments are filthy and grimy. See also Home Work report." Notes and photo: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 04789.
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Italian immigrants
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Date: November 1912
Notes: (For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) "Delivering bread in the Italian District, Spruce St., Providence, R.I." Notes and photo: Lewis Wickes Hine. Digital ID: 04799.
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New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Date: ca 1900
Notes: "Italian bread peddlers, Mulberry St., New York." Digital ID:4a29640.
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[U.S.A.]
Date: n.d.
Notes: "In Italian bakery." Digital ID: 22895.
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