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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Interview with Mary Rose Donzella [Part 1] |
| Date | 1979 |
| Document Type | Oral History (Audio) |
| Name | Donzella, Rose |
| Date of Recording | 1979 |
| Duration | 00:45:56 |
| Reference | IHRC1106, Box 1, AV177 |
| Library / Archive | Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota |
| Collection Name | Italians in Dobbs Ferry Oral History Collection |
| Description | Oral history conducted with Mary, a former Italian teacher. She discusses learning Italian from her mother and later at university, before becoming an Italian teacher at schools in Ossining, Tarrytown and Dobbs Ferry. Touches on her parent's emigration from Sicily, her father's job transporting food, Italian names being changed by the immigration service and societies. |
| Theme(s) | Permanent Settlement and Successive Generations |
| Country (from) | Italy |
| Country (to) | United States of America |
| Places | Ossining, Tarrytown, Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States; Sicily, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian-American; Italian; European |
| Keywords | education, language, language classeses, immigration, female migration, emigrant, family, employment, labourer, food, finance, prices, transport, discrimination, societies |
| Catalogue Link | Immigration History Research Center Archives Catalogue |
| Language | English |
| Document(s) linked to |
Interview with Mary Rose Donzella [Part 2] Notes on the Oral History of Mary Rose Donzella |
| Copyright | Reproduced by kind permission of the Dobbs Ferry Historical Society, Dobbs Ferry, New York. |