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An Italian family enjoying Sunday night dinner in Boyle Heights, California.

Italian-Americans behind metal wire fencing at internment camp

This internment card was used to track Italian-American enemy aliens and ensure that they obeyed discriminatory regulations. This one depicts Italian immigrant Carmelo Ilacqua, who was a resident of Santa Clara County.

Women workers on an assembly line in a cannery. Workers take the fruit from the line, fill cans, and then put lids on the cans, which are then sent to another room to be sealed. Notice that the women wear white caps and uniforms, resembling nursing…

This image is of a group of Italian POWs in a war camp in southern Africa. The prisoners appear to be joyful as they eat bananas.

A well known Italian born farmer was interviewed for the local paper about Italian laborers

This print, made in 1873 by Paul Frenzeny, reflects the hardships early Italian immigrants faced in New York.

Italian Americans celebrate the ousting of Fascist dictator Mussolini in 1943