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.

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 through as late as the 1960s.

This Italian language guidebook was a departure from his usual practice of publishing in English. It is a hodge podge of facts about the various states, including, for example, a list of parks but also the great hotels of major and minor cities, and who's in charge of enforcing laws on hunting and fishing.

There are entries on each state, with particular reference to the first Italians there, such as an Italian violinist who in 1822 gave a concert in Portland, Maine. It also informs the reader about Italian consulates, with contact information, throughout the U.S.

This work is also useful for population figures of Italians in each state, both those born in Italy and those descended from Italian-born, and forms a useful contrast with a much earlier work with similar information, the 1905 Italian American Directory: Guida generale per il commercio Italo Americano, q.v.

[Giovanni Schiavo]

The Vigo Press

1937

Italian