Autograph letter, signed of Vincenzo Polidori, one of the founders and owners of Il Progresso Italo-Americano, December 3, 1885 to William Shipman, Esq., attorney for the landlord of the building in which Il Progresso was housed.
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Autograph letter, signed of Vincenzo Polidori, one of the founders and owners of Il Progresso Italo-Americano, December 3, 1885 to William Shipman, Esq., attorney for the landlord of the building in which Il Progresso was housed.
Description
The letter notes the inclusion, in the envelope, of a rent payment to the landlord (through his attorney).
Polidori and Il Progresso's co-owner Carlo Barsotti, soon came to part ways - Durante notes that they became embroiled in bitter litigation against each other - and Barsotti became sole owner not long after this letter was written.
In 1887, Polidori began a new newspaper called the Cristoforo Colombo and, according to Giuseppe Gaja (in his Ricordi d'un giornalista errante (Torino, 1919)) at 83, also started Araldo Italiano.
Polidori and Il Progresso's co-owner Carlo Barsotti, soon came to part ways - Durante notes that they became embroiled in bitter litigation against each other - and Barsotti became sole owner not long after this letter was written.
In 1887, Polidori began a new newspaper called the Cristoforo Colombo and, according to Giuseppe Gaja (in his Ricordi d'un giornalista errante (Torino, 1919)) at 83, also started Araldo Italiano.
Creator
Vincenzo Polidori
Publisher
N/A (autographed letter, signed)
Date
December 3, 1885.
Format
23x14.5cm
Citation
Vincenzo Polidori, “Autograph letter, signed of Vincenzo Polidori, one of the founders and owners of Il Progresso Italo-Americano, December 3, 1885 to William Shipman, Esq., attorney for the landlord of the building in which Il Progresso was housed.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed December 12, 2025, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/591.
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