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Three Generations of Italians: Interview with Ann Aiello by Ann Coffey
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 01 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording is no…
The interview has been catalogued as 01 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording is no…
Three Generations of Italians: Interview with Angelina Iafrate by Cynthia Nanni
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 23 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…
Three Generations of Italians: Interview with Angelina Iafrate by Cynthia Nanni
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 23 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…
Three Generations of Italians: Interview with Angela Spirito by Cheryl Babiec
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 40 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording is no…
The interview has been catalogued as 40 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording is no…
Three Generations of Italians: Interview with Angela Spirito by Cheryl Babiec
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 39 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording is no…
The interview has been catalogued as 39 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording is no…
Three Generations of Italians: Interview with Andrew Salvadore by Norma DiLibero
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 37 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…
Three Generations of Italians: Interview with Andrew Salvadore by Norma DiLibero
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 37 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…
Three Generations of Italians: Interview with Alfred DeStafano by Susan McGuire
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 14 of 51 from box 6 in the Ethnic Heritage Studies collection. The original audio recording is no…
Three Generations of Italians: Interview with Albert Paesano by Norma Colaccio
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 30 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…
Three Generations of Italians: Interview with Albert Paesano by Norma Colaccio
This is an audio file with a transcript. The interview has been catalogued as 30 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…
Thomas Aldrich House
Woodward describes the Thomas Aldrich House as an asymmetrical four bay Federal style house. It was moved to Power Street from 39 Benevolent Street in 1950 to make room for the Wriston Quadrangle of Brown University. While it was built by Aldrich, a…
The World War I Monument by Paul P. Cret
The World War I Monument designed and created by architect Paul P. Cret and sculptors C.P. Jennewein and Janet de Coux stands before the Providence County Courthouse on Benefit St. The monument, originally located in Post Office Square (renamed…
The Washington Monument
The Washington Monument, the most prominent fixture in the D.C. skyline, was completed in 1884 in honor of the first American president, George Washington. The monument stands over 555 ft tall and offers views over thirty miles. A design competition…
The Three Servicemen Statue
The Three Servicemen statue is the result of the controversy surrounding Maya Ying Lin's design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Some veterans and their political supporters felt that The Wall was "a black gash of shame" or a "giant tombstone." It…
The Smithsonian Institute
The original home of the Smithsonian Institute was built by architect James Renwick, Jr. The Romanesque style building, referred to as the “Castle”, is located on the National Mall in Washington and was commissioned in 1846. The structure was built…
The Smithsonian Institute
The original home of the Smithsonian Institute was built by architect James Renwick, Jr. The Romanesque style building, referred to as the “Castle”, is located on the National Mall in Washington and was commissioned in 1846. The structure was built…
The Rouse Company - Columbia, Maryland
The Rouse Company, a development firm headed by James Rouse, is responsible for the creation of Columbia, Maryland. The community consists of ten self-contained villages which were established in the late 1960s.
(date of photograph has been…
The Presbyterian Church in Willingboro, NJ
Pictured are two churches in Willingboro that are next to each other- The Delaware Valley Baptist Church, and the Presbyterian church of Willingboro. As of 2016, there are more than 23 different churches in the area that are accessible to Willingboro…
The Newport Skyline from Goat Island
Newport’s wharfs, from Long Wharf to Perry Mill evolved, from the late 1960s through the 1980s into a hectic carnival of boutiques, eateries, and hotels. A deliberately nondescript wharf-like vernacular has been cultivated even for outsized hotels,…
The Moshassuck River
The Moshassuck River in Providence near the Rhode Island State House.
The Mall in Columbia - Columbia, Maryland
An interior photograph of the Columbia Mall in Columbia Maryland displays the glass ceiling that creates an atrium effect for shoppers. The globe-shaped lanterns are repeated on the mall’s exterior walks.
The Mall in Columbia is part of a planned…
The Ilhéus do Rombo, Aerial Photograph
These small islands, located in the southwest quadrant of the archipelago, between Brava and Fogo, were made nature preserves in 1990. The long, narrow island in the foreground of this photo, Ilhéu de Cima, is a breeding ground for the bulwer's…
The Everglades: Sawgrass Prairie
This photograph from the Everglades shows a key element of this unique environment, the sawgrass prairie. Sawgrass thrives in the shallow slow moving water that occupies much of the southern portion of the Florida peninsula. Although not much else…
The Everglades: Camp Ground
The Everglades is a popular destination for campers and those with mobile homes. This unidentified Everglades campground was photographed in 1978 and shows a different side of Miami’s tourism industry.
The Dilorio Story
This well-known and beloved family of Funeral directors were located at the corner of Dean and Atwells Ave. In this picture, Connie Mac has captured the entire Dilorio undertaking family, the white horse-drawn hearse, the later mechanized white…
The Delaware Valley Baptist Church in Willingboro, NJ
Two churches in the planned township of Willingboro: The Delaware Valley Baptist Church, and the Presbyterian church of Willingboro. As of 2016, there are more than 23 different churches in the area that are accessible to Willingboro residents.…
The Corner of Weybosset and Dorrance
Looking up Weybosset St. from the corner of Dorrance and Weybosset. There is minor street construction occurring, and the Beneficent Congregational Church can be seen in the distance. The church was built in 1809 and remodeled to its current…
The Cheese Man
Cav. S. Francis Basso, Proprietor of the Providence Cheese and Delicatessen on Atwells Ave...Cav. Basso was one of the pioneer businessmen, who in 1969 purchased a normal cheese store and...transformed it into a unique[ly] Italian Specialty Cheese,…
The Car and Man
This was a two-seater, which was a very popular type of car around 1910. For anyone that was able to buy one of these cars, it was a sign that they had made it and that they were able to afford some of the luxuries that this great country had to…
The Capitol Building (Aerial)
Aerial image of downtown Providence featuring the Rhode Island State House at the center. The Rhode Island State House was built in 1904, designed by McKim, Mead & White. The building's self-supporting marble dome is the fourth-largest of its kind in…
The Breakers- Newport, RI
The Breakers is the grandest of Newport's summer "cottages" and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America. Cornelius Vanderbilt II purchased a wooden house called The Breakers in Newport. In…
The Bradford House
A view of the (then called) Bradford House from Interstate 95 in Providence. Completed in 1966, the building is one of several high-rise towers that was built around the city for elderly residents. As of 2015, the building is known as the Sister…
The Blackstone Block
The Blackstone Block resided between the Providence National Bank and the Turk's Head Building. It was a work of the architect James C. Bucklin, whose other works include the Providence Arcade and the Monohassett Mill. The Blackstone Block was a…
The Bay at Fajã d'Água
Some large rocks jut out of the harbor at Fajã d'Água. The step and mountainous coastline surround this small village protects it from northwestern winds, creating this calm, quiet harbor.
The Barros Family
The Barros family from New Bedford, Massachusetts poses for a photo in Rabil during their visit to the Cape Verde Islands.
The Bandstand behind the Casino at Roger Williams Park, Providence
On Roosevelt Lake behind the Casino at Roger Williams Park sits the bandstand (John Hutchins Cady, 1915). According to Jordy, this classical revival structure has an “open, colonnaded Ionic rotunda as the climax of a metal-fenced, masonry platform…
The “People Tree” Sculpture
The Tree of Life sculpture, commonly referred to as the “People Tree”, is the symbol of Columbia Maryland. The community consists of ten self-contained villages which were established in the late 1960s by The Rouse Company, a development firm…
Terrain surrounding Pico de Fogo
This is one of the exterior sides of Pico de Fogo. Coffee beans are planted and successfully grown around the slope terrain immediately surrounding the volcano.
Terraced garden along the Ribeira do Paùl
A terraced garden along the Ribiera do Paùl. The land is the most fertile in Cape Verde. Volcanic dust is extracted from this region for making cement bricks. It is often compared to the landscape of Hawaii.
Tel Aviv: Urban Greenery, Residential Neighborhood
This photograph of a residential street in Tel Aviv shows traces of Scottish planner Patrick Geddes plan in the narrow street and the patches of greenery. The Geddes Plan, drafted in 1926, attempted to design Tel Aviv in the style of garden cities, a…
Tel Aviv: University, Diaspora Museum
Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora was designed by Eliahu Gwircmann and Itzhak Yashar after winning an international competition judged by a panel headed by Miles van der Rohe. Opened in 1978, the museum, located on Tel Aviv…
Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Marina
The Tel Aviv Beach was developed into a resort after it’s economic potential was realized by Mayor Dizengoff in the 1930s. Originally the development was to follow the Gruenblatt plan, which followed the Geddes plan for the city, but planned to…
Tel Aviv: Residential Street
The International style dominates residential structures in Tel Aviv developed between the 1920s and 1960s. Patrick Geddes, at the request of Mayor Dizengoff, drafted a plan for the city that was adjusted for the comfort of the pedestrian. This…
Tel Aviv: Metzudat Ze’ev (also known as Beit Jabotinsky) & Tel Aviv City Hall
This photograph shows Metzudat Ze’ev, an office building in Tel Aviv named for Vladimir Jabotinsky. Jabotinksy was a leader of the right-wing, anti-socialist movement within Zionism. Jabotinsky argued that the future of the Jewish state depended on…
Tel Aviv: Machei Israel Square, Modernist Housing
Following Israel’s independence concrete tenement houses were quickly constructed to accommodate large numbers of refugee’s living in ma’abarot, refugee tent camps. This 1980 photograph of Machei Israel Square also shows some of these modernist…
Tel Aviv: Machei Israel Square, City Hall
Proposed by city engineer Yaacov Ben Sera in 1945, Machei Israel Square was transformed over two decades from a place of recreation to the civic heart of modern Tel Aviv. This photograph show’s the plaza and Menahem Cohen’s city hall. The city hall…
Tel Aviv: International Style in Residential Architecture
The Geddes Plan, which drew influence from the garden city movement, is illustrated in this photograph of a residential street in Tel Aviv. Drafted in 1926 and put into effect in 1927, the plan favoured the city dweller, regulating everything from…
Tel Aviv: Housing, Bauhaus
Tel Aviv has the largest collection of architecture in the International of any city in the world. This photograph is an example of housing built in the Bauhaus style, a style developed in pre-Nazi Germany. Because of the climate in Tel Aviv, the…
Tel Aviv: Housing & Shalom Tower
Amongst the dense housing in Tel Aviv, the Shalom Tower can be seen in the center of this image. The tower, also called Migdal Shalom, is considered one of the tallest and most modern buildings in all of Europe and Asia. It stands 142 meters tall and…