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Audio Recording "My folks came over from Italy."

"My folks came over from Italy."

About this Item

Title

  • "My folks came over from Italy."

Names

  • Basileo, Angelo (Narrator)
  • McCarl, Robert (Interviewer)

Created / Published

  • 1994-08-11

Headings

  • -  Interviews
  • -  Italian Americans
  • -  Emigration and Immigration
  • -  Oral history
  • -  Sound recordings
  • -  Retirees
  • -  Work ethic
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- New Jersey -- Haledon

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Interview with Angelo Basileo at his home in Haledon, New Jersey.
  • -  Summary of audio segment: Angelo Basileo was born in Paterson. His folks came over from Italy in the 1890s and he was born in 1909, he is 85. He currently lives in New Haledon, NJ. He thinks they got married in U.S. They came via steerage and went through Ellis Island. Early family members sponsored other family members. His mother's brother came right to Paterson and he sponsored the rest of the family coming over. They settled in Paterson, and his mother's brother became a silk worker. His father used to work in a shoe factory in Italy. Father in shoe factory, silk mill, over the years his father went into silk and learned weaving too. Over the years he quit silk mill and opened his own shoe repair shop. They were never millionaires, always worked for a living. His mother never worked.

Medium

  • Analog Audio Cassette

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1995/028: WIP-RM-A008

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:

Basileo, Angelo, and Robert McCarl. "My folks came over from Italy.". -08-11, 1994. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip002811/.

APA citation style:

Basileo, A. & McCarl, R. (1994) "My folks came over from Italy.". -08-11. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip002811/.

MLA citation style:

Basileo, Angelo, and Robert McCarl. "My folks came over from Italy.". -08-11, 1994. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afcwip002811/>.