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Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alters clothing for herself, family members and friends.
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alters clothing for herself, family members and friends.
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alters clothing for herself, family members and friends.
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alters clothing for herself, family members and friends.
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alters clothing for herself, family members and friends.
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alters clothing for herself, family members and friends.
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alters clothing for herself, family members and friends.
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alters clothing for herself, family members and friends.
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alters clothing for herself, family members and friends.
Florence DiStefano in her basement sewing shop where she makes and alters clothing for herself, family members and friends.
Summary
Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at the home of retired ladies garment worker Florence DiStefano, Paterson, New Jersey, September 15, 1994.
She is using a "Merrow machine" (manufactured by the Merrow Machine Company, Hartford, Connecticut) to put a kind of edge binding on a piece of fabric; Florence is wearing a smock, imprinted with the logo of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), she used to wear on the job.
Italian Americans. Ethnographic Photographs from Library of Congress.
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italian americans
fieldwork interviews
ethnography
paterson nj
florence
distefano
florence distefano
basement
shop
members
friends
economic and social conditions
high resolution
new jersey
working in paterson project collection
working in paterson occupational heritage in an urban setting
american folklife center
martha cooper
david alan taylor
ultra high resolution
library of congress
Date
01/01/1994
Contributors
DiStefano, Florence (Depicted)
Taylor, David Alan, 1951- (Collaborator)
Cooper, Martha (Photographer)
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Location
Paterson (N.J.)
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40.91667, -74.17194
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain