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Field name | Value |
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Title | Interview with Filomena Valpacchio [Part 1] |
Author | Valpacchio, Filomena |
Date | c.1979 |
Document Type | Oral History (Audio) |
Name | Valpacchio, Filomena |
Date of Recording | c.1979 |
Duration | 00:31:24 |
Reference | IHRC1106, Box 1, AV199 |
Library / Archive | Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota |
Collection Name | Italians in Dobbs Ferry Oral History Collection |
Description | Born in 1895, Filomena married in Italy when she was 16. Her husband travelled between the United States and Italy and she eventually sold the holding and left Italy via Naples in 1916. She describes how she did not like America at first as she could not speak the language, washing clothes to make a living, her husband's work on the railroad and then as a gardener, owning a boarding house, her seven children and getting a mortgage on the house. |
Theme(s) | Arrivals: Ports and Early Experiences |
Country (from) | Italy |
Country (to) | United States of America |
Places | Dobbs Ferry, New York, New Jersey, United States |
Ports | Naples, Italy; New York, United States |
Nationality | Italian; European |
Keywords | marriage, health and sickness, literacy, farming, agriculture, seasickness, wine, languages, clothing, railway, gardening, First World War, lodging house, finance, children |
Catalogue Link | Immigration History Research Center Archives Catalogue |
Language | English; Italian |
Document(s) linked to |
Interview with Filomena Valpacchio [Part 2] Notes on the Oral History of Filomena Valpacchio |
Copyright | Reproduced by kind permission of the Dobbs Ferry Historical Society, Dobbs Ferry, New York. |