This is a transcript made from an audio recording. it was made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians.'
The interview has been catalogued as 18 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording is no…
This is a transcript made from an audio recording. it was made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians.'
The interview has been catalogued as 24 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording is no…
This is a transcript made from an audio recording. it was made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians.'
The interview has been catalogued as 44 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording is no…
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 20 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording, made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians,' is located on audio…
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 20 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording, made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians,' is located on audio…
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 42 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording, made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians,' is located on audio…
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 42 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording, made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians,' is located on audio…
This is a transcript made from an audio recording. it was made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians.'
The interview has been catalogued as 21 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording is no…
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 22 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording, made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians,' is located on audio…
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 22 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording, made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians,' is located on audio…
This is a transcript made from an audio recording. it was made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians.'
The interview has been catalogued as 07 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording is no…
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 05 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording, made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians,' is located on audio…
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 05 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording, made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians,' is located on audio…
This is a transcript made from an audio recording. it was made for the series, 'Three Generations of Italians.'
The interview has been catalogued as 26 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording is no…
Nineteenth century tombs in a cemetery near Praia de Cabral. The graves belong to the Ben'Oliel family and the daughter of Charles Pettingall, an English diplomat.
The Tony Colonial Food market at 311 Atwells Avenue in Providence is a business that has grown continuously on Federal Hill and today is one of the larger fine Italian food stores anywhere in Rhode Island. It carries a complete line of Italian cold…
The building, the oldest Synagogue in the US, is angled to the street on a rise so that the ark inside faces Jerusalem. Only the elegance of the entrance porch, with arching inside a pedimented Ionic enclosure and the same generous spread of stairs…
This photo features what appears to be the interior town of Rabil, Boa Vista. Homes in this area are usually either made with mud-brick, concrete, or stone. The town streets are all very flat, rather deserted, and covered in rocks.
These traditional stone cottages are set against a mountainous backdrop. One of the abundant natural resources in Cape Verdè is stone. Many of the traditional and modern structure are built from stone. They feature thatched roofs. These…
This image shows the transformation of Capital Center in progress. Francis Street construction is complete up until the over-passed train tracks and the bridge over the Woonasquatucket River. The former train tracks have been removed, but the land…
The interior of an apartment within a triple-decker home in Central Falls. A couple is seated at the kitchen table. The interior of triple-decker houses varied by social status. A working-class family’s home would include a parlor, kitchen, bedrooms,…
Nestled between the City of Pawtucket and the Towns of Cumberland and Lincoln, Central Falls' History dates back to 1731 and the early History of the Town of Smithfield. This tiny City with 1.5 square miles and over 18,000 residents proudly boasts…
The triple-decker, functioning primarily as a tenement, varied in size and cost. Here Chet Smolski photographs variations on the triple-decker tenement in Central Falls.
An example of a triple-decker tenement in Central Falls. The triple-decker first appeared around 1890 and within a quarter century they predominated inner city neighborhoods in and around Providence, including nearby Central Falls. These deep,…
"Ubiquitous triple-deckers," in Providence, as noted by Professor Smolski. This area of South Providence was identified as a "blighted" neighborhood in the 1970s, and much of it, including the neighborhood in this image, has since been demolished and…
Heading west on Eaton Street from Douglas Ave towards Providence College. These triple-deckers are examples of early twentieth-century vernacular housing.
First appearing in the 1890s, these three unit apartments began to emerge as a popular dwellings for the growing population. This three-story building consists of three identical living units, with one on each floor. While most were designed for…
Clustered apartment housing in Central Falls was necessary to accommodate a rapidly growing population at the turn of the twentieth century. The population boom was due to a booming textile industry.
This marker placed by the Block Island Historical Society in 1942 commemorates the spot where Trustrum Dodge lived. Dodge was one of the original settlers of Block Island.
Inscribed on the marker are notable dates in Block Island’s history:
1614…
This marker placed by the Block Island Historical Society in 1942 commemorates the spot where Trustrum Dodge lived. Dodge was one of the original settlers of Block Island.
Inscribed on the marker are notable dates in Block Island’s history:
1614…
A worker at a tuna cannery decapitates freshly caught tuna in order to prepare it for processing and canning. This cannery is believed to be the first to open in Cape Verde.
Freshly caught tuna is weighed in a tuna cannery before it moves on to processing. This cannery, located in Tarrafal, is believed to be the first commercial cannery to be opened in Cape Verde.
The Turks Head building was designed in 1913 by New York architects Howells & Strokes. The building was erected by the Brown Land Co. as an investment for members of the Brown family, and was part of a highway improvement plan that would…
This photograph shows the density of residential housing in Turku, a city on the southwest coast of Finland. Smolski notes that the houses are built in a style similar to that of Russian housing. This photograph was made in 1974.