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Audio Recording Al Buonforte's background

[Al Buonforte's background]

About this Item

Title

  • Al Buonforte's background

Names

  • Buonforte, Al (Narrator)
  • McCarl, Robert (Interviewer)

Created / Published

  • 1994-08-10

Headings

  • -  Interviews
  • -  Italian Americans
  • -  Emigration and Immigration
  • -  Oral history
  • -  Sound recordings
  • -  Watson Machine International
  • -  Machinery industry
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- New Jersey -- Paterson

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Interview with Al Buonforte in his office at Watson Machine International.
  • -  Summary of audio segment: Father and mother -- immigrants from Italy. When father arrived in Paterson he worked in the dye houses. During second world war he went to work for Curtis-Wrights. He was a lathe operator during the war and the went back into the dye houses. They were from Naples. Mother's and father's parents -- farm people. Immigrated around the turn of the century or maybe the early 'twenties. [Al looking through his material to find mother's and father's passport]. Would have to be the turn of the century.

Medium

  • Analog Audio Cassette

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1995/028: WIP-RM-A004

Source Collection

  • Working in Paterson Project Collection (AFC 1995/028)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line

Working in Paterson Project collection, 1993-2002 (AFC 1995/028), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Buonforte, Al, and Robert McCarl. Al Buonforte's background. -08-10, 1994. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip003190/.

APA citation style:

Buonforte, A. & McCarl, R. (1994) Al Buonforte's background. -08-10. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip003190/.

MLA citation style:

Buonforte, Al, and Robert McCarl. Al Buonforte's background. -08-10, 1994. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afcwip003190/>.