Description: Notes transcribing the key points of an oral history with Filomena, who discusses her early fears of dying in the fields of Italy, her marriage and various jobs. Touches on the death of her husband, and how she managed to keep their house by taking in boarders and sending her children to work.
Note:
AMDigital Reference: IHRC1106, Box 1.
Original Version:
Reproduction of: Notes on the Oral History of Filomena Valpacchio 1979.
Location of Originals:
Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota
Copyright Note:
Reproduced by kind permission of the Dobbs Ferry Historical Society, Dobbs Ferry, New York.