Guides, rulebooks, domestic aids, "keys", model speeches, and letters, for the protection of Italians and to enable them to become Americans

Guide to the United States for the Immigrant Italian: A Nearly Literal Translation of the Italian Version. New York: Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution and Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911.

Like the Italian original, this work was “published under the Auspices of the Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution.” The frontispiece…

A Primer of Civics: Manuale di cittadinanza: designed for the guidance of the immigrant. Chicago: Illinois Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1918.

The author, a Bohemian immigrant to the United States, began this series with an English-Bohemian version published in 1912, then English only (1912),…

Raccolta di discorsi per ogni occasione; Brindisi ed augurii [Collected Speeches for Every Occasion; Toasts and Greetings]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, [1920's]

This is Copy 2: Rome printing: Each of these two not quite identical editions — one printed in Rome and in New York purportedly both in 1917, but for…

Statuto e regolamenti della Società Mutuo Soccorso Italiana di San Pedro "Giuseppe Mazzini" [Statutes and Rules of the Mutual Benevolence Society of San Pedro "Giuseppe Mazzini"]. Los Angeles: Tip. de "L'Italo-Americano", [1910?].

List of founding members as well as sections of the book in a rear table of contents, including rules of the organization, duties of the various…

Guida degli Stati Uniti con particolare riferimento alla opera svoltavi dagli italiani [Guide to the United States with particular reference to the works carried out by Italians]. New York: The Vigo Press, 1937.

Giovanni Schiavo, a self-taught historian, brought out many volumes of his Italian-American Who's Who, in English (unlike Flamma), from the late 1930s…

Elementi di Algebra [Elements of Algebra]. Missoula: Scuole Fort-Missoula, 1943 [Anno XXI].

For classes for Italians who were imprisoned at the internment camp at Ft. Missoula, Montana during World War II; typescript. See discussion of…

Aritmetica [Arithmetic]. Missoula: Scuole Fort-Missoula, 1943 [Anno XXI].

This arithmetic textbook was written in Italian for classes for Italians - mostly civilians who were in the wrong place at the wrong time - who were…

Al di là dell' Oceano: per i nostri emigranti [Life beyond the ocean: for our emigrants.] Tivoli: Tipografia Ed. Moderna, 1914.

The author (about whom I have found nothing) tries to warn Italians that before they decide to emigrate either to North or to South America, they…

Segretario amoroso italiano-inglese [Romantic Secretary (Italian-English)]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1945.

The "secretary" like this one, filled with "model" business and social letters in both Italian and English, was surely a best seller for the Italian…

Notice to Aliens of Enemy Nationalities: The United States Government requires all aliens of German, Italian, or Japanese nationality to apply at post offices nearest to their place of residence for a Certificate of Identification...Go to your postmaster today for printed directions. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, 1942.

Notice to aliens in a rather large handbill, perhaps more accurately a broadside, to advise them to file applications to register for a certificate of…

La cucina casareccia napoletana pei golosi e buongustai [Neapolitan Homecooking for Gourmands and Gourmets]. New York: Italian Book Company, 194? [sic]

Printed in Raimondi, Italy, at what seems to be a school for the deaf and mute (Scuola Tip. Sordomuti); an E. Rossi (bookstore and general emporium of…

La chiave dei sogni e manualetto di chiromanzia [The Key to Dreams; and Little Manual of Palmistry]. New York: Vincenzo Ciocia, 1913.

This copy bears a copyright date of 1905, in contrast to date on the cover of 1913 for printing, as well as 89 Centre Street address, rather than the…

Costituzione e regolamenti della Società Italiana di Mutuo Soccorso di North Adams, Mass. [Constitution and Regulations of the Italian Society of Mutual Aid of North Adam's, Mass.]. Springfield, Mass.: Tip. Ed. de "L'Eco Coloniale," 1914.

Mutual aid societies among the Italians were an important social mechanism for earlier immigrants to help more recent ones. Although we associate them…

Regolamento della Grande Loggia dello stato di New York: approvato dalla Convenzione Straordinaria di New York del Giugno 1919 ed emendato e approvato dalla Grande Convenzione Ordinario di Amsterdam, N.Y., dell'Agosto 1922 [Regulations of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York; approved by the Extraordinary Convention of New York, June 1919 and amended and approved by the Grand Lodge at the Regular Convention of Amsterdam, NY, of August 1922]. New York: Il Carroccio Publ. Co., [1922].

Order Sons of Italy; Ordine Figli d'Italia in America.

Guida alla salute: Il come prevenire le malattie, come curarle, come riguadagnare la salute, estesa descrizione delle cause, sintomi, e trattamento di tutte le malattie del corpo umano con un capitolo sul matrimonio e la vita sessuale [Guide to Health: How to anticipate illnesses, how to treat them, how to regain health, extensive description of the causes, symptoms, and treatment of all illnesses of the human body with a chapter on marriage and sexual life]. New York: Italian American Directory Co., 1904.

Collins, working in Liverpool, was a physician and quack. An issue of The Medical Standard dated 1896 announces his medical residency in Hicksville,…

Guida degli Stati Uniti per l'immigrante italiano [Guide to the United States for the Italian Immigrant]. New York: Societa delle Figlie della Rivoluzione Americana, 1913.

Same author and text generally as the other copy in the collection, q.v.

Guida degli Stati Uniti per l'immigrante italiano [Guide to the United States for the Italian Immigrant]. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910.

Edited by the Società delle figlie della Rivoluzione Americana, Sezione di Connecticut (Daughters of the American Revolution, Connecticut Section).…

Manuale degli Stati Uniti: istruzioni ad uso degli immigranti e stranieri [Manual of the United States: Instructions for the Use of Immigrants and Foreigners]. Washington: Società Nazionale Figlie della Rivoluzione Americana, 1930.

There were 91 editions of this work published between 1923 and 2001 in 17 languages, and more entries in WorldCat for this work than any other.Author…