4:00 Making lace collars at home (usually in kitchen). Mrs. Vencique, 309 E. 110th St., working with baby asleep in lap. Her sister, Tessie Amendola, 15 years old, works all the time. Some days she says she makes over $ a day. At times only $ a week. Been working at it three years. One of them was making lace for a contractor, Marchina, 207 E. 109th St., top floor (in an old dwelling). The other was making lace for factory, P. Cappellino, 401 E. 116th St. Husband is plasterer and "works some.".

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Italian women manufacture lace from their tenement apartment

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Size: 4500px × 3255px
Location: United States
Photo credit: © Buyenlarge \ UIG / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: 1911, apartment, child, children, cottage, family, immigrants, industry, italian, kitchen, labor, lace, manhattan, needlecraft, needles, needlework, nyc, photographic, sewing, tenements, workers