Italian Immigrant

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Title: Italian Immigrant
Photographer: J.W. Nara
Subject Headings: Persons - Immigrants, Manners and Customs - Clothing and Dress,
Condition: Excellent
Description: Italian Immigrant to Calumet - to work in mines. [Studio posed portrait of a man in a suit standing next to a podium with a Calumet, Mich. pennant.]
Source of Description: Back of the photo [cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: William Nara
Date of Photo: undated
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 14.6 cm x 8.9 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: Nara 42-120
Collection Name: William Nara Photograph Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• This photo was used extensively in the promotion of the Interior Ellis Island" web project at the MTU Archives (see http:\digarch.lib.mtu.edu). People who worked on the project came to know him affectionately as Guido, though there was no documented proof that he is actually Italian."
1/7/2008 4:28:09 PM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist