Mrs. Maggie Conte, 428 E. 116th St., top floor makes about $ a week working lace collars, yokes, etc. for Cappellino's factory. Husband is carpenter. Work not steady. Brother-in-law boards with them. .

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Italian Families manufacture lace from their tenement apartment

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Size: 4500px × 3255px
Location: United States
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License: Licensed
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Keywords: 1911, apartment, baby, child, children, cottage, family, immigrants, industry, infant, italian, kitchen, labor, lace, manhattan, needlecraft, needles, needlework, nyc, photographic, sewing, tenements, workers