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Italy | | Date: n.d. | Notes: There are a number of families in the U.S. that have the surname, CASACALENDA. It is an example of my grandparents' immigration to the US when illiterate peasants were unable to communicate and their surnames were replaced by immigration with the place of their birth. Another paese which appears here as a surname is Campopiano.... Usually people in Italy who bear cities/town as their surname are Jewish. Another, example is any surname being with BAR- (son of) or -LEVI. I don't think that there were any synogues in Molise's paesi, yet the whole town of URURI is Albanian and its welcoming sign is bilingual.
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Ellis Island (N.Y. and N.J.) U.S.A. | | Date: ca. 1902-1913 | | Notes: The photo was taken by Edwin Levick; it's image caption reads: Immigrants undering going medical examination." | Contributed by: Courtesy of the New York Public Library, Digital Gallery
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Ellis Islan (N.Y. and N.J.) U.S.A. | | Date: ca 1902-1913 | | Notes: The photo was taken by Edwin Levick;; it's image caption reads "Immigrants waiting in line for processing by immigration Bureau officials." | Contributed by: Courtesy of the New York Public Library, Digital Library
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Ellis Island (N.Y. and N.J.) U.S.A. | | Date: 1926 | | Notes: The photo taken by Lewis Wickes Hine is titled, "A social worker at EllisIsland, 1926." | Contributed by: Courtesy of the New York Library, Digital Gallery
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United States | | Date: 1916 | | Notes: Title: "Uncle Sam behind high wall marked 'Literary Test' which is spiked with pen points, says to immigrants family below, "You're welcome, if you can climb it." | Contributed by: Courtesy of The Library of Congress #3b00563r
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Ellis Island (N.Y. and N.J.) U.S.A. | | Date: ca. 1902-1913 | | Notes: The photo was taken by Edwin Levick; its image caption reads, "Passed and waiting to be taken off Ellis Island...." Historians note that Italian immigrants usually settled in different regions of the U.S. based from where they came from in Italy. At the beginning of the 20th century the majority of Italians settled in mid Atlantic states, like New York and Pennsylvania. However, a large number of Sicilians went to New Orleans, while Neapolitans and Calabrians went to Minnesota while those from northern Italy went to California. The U.S. Census Bureau in the year 2000 reported that Italian Americans are the nation's fifth largest ethnic group. | Contributed by: Courtesy of the New York Public Library, Digital Gallery
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Ellis Island (N.Y. and N.J.) U.S.A. | | Date: 1905 | | Notes: Lewis W. Hine's photo-study is titled, "Group of Italians in the railroad waiting room." A note attached to the photo-study reads: "These are some of the Italians who became the barbers, waiters, chauffeurs and mayors of America. Some became the artists and sculptors of our national Capitol and of other public buildings." | Contributed by: Courtesy of the New York Public Library, Digital Gallery
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Ellis Island, United States | | Date: between 1907 and 1917 | | Notes: Title: "Immigrants at Ellis Island." | Contributed by: Courtesy of The Library of Congress #3a27341r
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United States | | Date: [1907] | | Notes: Title: "Arriving at Ellis Island." | Contributed by: Courtesy of The Library of Congress #00157r
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Ellis Island, United States | | Date: | | Notes: Digital ID: 00056r. | Contributed by: Courtesy of The Library of Congress
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