Italian family living 428 E. 116th St., 2 floor back. They were so illiterate I couldn't get their names. Have been in only one month. Mother is learning to make lace for factory near

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Italian Families manufacture lace from their tenement apartment

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Size: 4500px × 3254px
Location: United States
Photo credit: © Buyenlarge \ UIG / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1911, apartment, baby, child, children, cottage, family, immigrants, industry, infant, italian, kitchen, labor, lace, manhattan, needlecraft, needles, needlework, nyc, photographic, sewing, tenements, workers