Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection

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The James J. Periconi Collection of Italian-language American imprints offers a unique insight into what Italian immigrants to the United States were reading, writing, and thinking about at the end of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.

This website serves as a catalog of the collection and is intended as a resource for scholars of Italian-American history. Please browse the material, seeing how tags can help you zero in on your particular interests, read related essays, and learn about the 2012 Strangers in a Strange Land exhibition at the Grolier Club of New York by using the navigation bar on the left side of this page.

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Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica [The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], Anno 9, No. 88. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] 1927.

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For a discussion of this magazine that ran for at least eleven years (1918 or 1919 - 1929), and that was utterly sui generis, neither radical, nor…

Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica [The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], Anno 8, No. 86. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Ottobre [October] 1926.

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For a discussion of this magazine that ran for at least eleven years (1918 or 1919 - 1929), and that was utterly sui generis, neither radical, nor…