Introduction
This Exhibition will explore Italian Imigration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The primary sources displayed will depict the mass numbers of Italian immigrants who… Read more »
Category: Brendan Pell
Bibliography
Primary Sources “Arrival of Emigrants [I.e. Immigrants], Ellis Island” American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. May 9, 1906. https://www.loc.gov/item/00694368/ “Demons Loose in New Orleans.” The Pittsburg Dispatch, March 15, 1891. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27490142/pittsburgh_dispatch/. “Don’t Speak… Read more »
Immigrating to the US
“Great Influx of Italians”, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 27, 1905 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s January 27th, 1905 newspaper contained an article informing the people of Brooklyn about the 1,300… Read more »
The life of an Italian Immigrant in America
“309 W. 146th Street. […] and her seven year old daughter, Lorenza, embroidering ladies waists in their dirty kitchen-living room. Lorenza makes the stems of the flowers. Her mother said,… Read more »
Anti-Italianism
“Demons Loose in New Orleans”, The Pittsburg Dispatch, March 15, 1891 This newspaper article was printed with no specified author on March 15, 1891. Its purpose was to inform the people… Read more »