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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Histories, philosophy, biographies, directories, bibliographies, almanacs, catalogues, annuals, religious, educational, and travel literature Subject The topic of the resource These largely non-political works reflect a broad pallette of non-fiction reflections on the history of Italians in the U.S., travel literature, biographies (like that of the Peanut King, Obici), or the religious, like Sister, later Mother, and final Saint Cabrini. Description An account of the resource In these non-fiction works, Italians reflected upon themselves and their American experiences. Representing the non-sovversivi type of immigrant, who were more interested in becoming American and “making it” in America than in stoking class warfare and remaking society, They began to place themselves in the context of contemporary American society and the history in America. The release in 1921 of Alfredo Bosi’s Cinquant’anni di vita italiana in America, the first history of Italians in the United States, represented a watershed - the first 50 years of Italians in America - and allegedly arose from a conversation between journalist Bosi and King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy in 1901, in which the king expressed curiosity about the Italian colony in America. Luigi Roversi’s biography of Palma di Cesnola proudly places that Italian within the august homes of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant America, into which di Cesnola had married, and where he ruled as the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. More than the first half of Flamma’s “biography” of the greatest mayor New York City had ever seen, Fiorello LaGuardia, has little to do with La Guardia, unfortunately, but the work did reflect his obvious pride that after electing mayors in 29 other cities, Italians “finally” elected (in 1933) a mayor of Italian heritage to the country’s most important city. The directories discussed here, from New York to San Francisco, provide a particularly rich source of information about the different businesses and professions Italians had in virtually every state of the union, from as early as the 1880s (in San Francisco) to the first few decades of the 20th Century (primarily in New York). Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti d'America [Italians in the United States]. New York: Italian American Directory Co., 1906. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ciambelli, et al. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Italian American Directory Co. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1906 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 39 x 30cm; 469 p. Language A language of the resource Italian Description An account of the resource Published as a result of the organizing committee of the 1906 Milan Exposition directing Italian Chambers of Commerce around the world to prepare a volume in a series about “gli Italiani all’estero” (Italians abroad), this Italian-language work was an ambitious one, a collaboration with, and actually published by, the same publisher in the year following the more conventional 1905 Italian American Directory (q.v.). Part I of this rare elephant folio work contains essays by what can be considered an all-star cast of Italian writers, all of whom are featured in the collection, from then inspector of immigration Adolfo Rossi on Italian manpower in the U.S., Alfonso Arbib-Costa on Italians in public schools, Alfredo Bosi, on the failure of the Italian colony in New York to establish a true Italian school, Bernardino Ciambelli on Columbus Day, and Amy Bernardy on the Italians of Boston. Part II comprises 290 of the 473-page total, and is a directory of advertisements and summaries of Italian American businesses. Included here is a description of Francesco Tocci and his Emporium Press, both of which publishers are represented in the Collection. There Tocci describes his goal of helping make Italian books available and popular among Americans as well as Italians. See the essay by Robert Viscusi, “Universal Exposition,” under "Essays" on the website, for a brilliant dissection of the multiple meanings and purposes of this volume. Adolfo Rossi advertisements Alfonso Arbib-Costa Alfredo Bosi Amy Bernardy Bernardino Ciambelli directory Durante Francesco Tocci Italian American Directory