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This card depicts the Santa Lucia statue used for the Santa Lucia Festival in Omaha, Neb. in August 1925. The text below the statue reads: "Santa Lucia Vergine e Martire, Patrona di Carlentini, Colony of Omaha, Neb., August, 1925." (Transl.: Virgin…

Photograph and newspaper clipping describing death of Sam Vacanti, the uncle of Louise Vacanti, who lost his life on November 27, 1944. After enlisting in the Navy in 1934, he was stationed at a Pacific naval base and later died in a plane crash near…

Portrait of an unknown woman.

The subject of this photograph is assumed to be Alfio Nisi's grandfather, but this cannot be confirmed. The photo is over 100 years old.

The woman featured in the photograph was the one who raised the money in order to fund the statue of Santa Lucia, used for the Santa Lucia Festival in the early 1920s. The statue is kept in the Santa Lucia Catholic Church.

In the late 1890s, Chuck's great-grandparents came from Carlentini. They worked as bakers in the Little Italy community in Omaha.

Photograph of Concetta and Salvatore Monaco in Little Italy, Omaha.

This is a photograph of Concetta and Salvatore Monaco or Monico with their daughter Nettie. They had six children total, one of their other daughters was Pam Rowland's mother. They lived in Little Italy and had a store on 9th and Pierce streets.

This is a photograph Creamery Co., established and built in 1908. Laurits Jacobsen, the grandfather of Sonya Jacobsen, was the bookkeeper of the creamery.

This is a photograph of the Dannebrog Railroad Depot. An unknown person walked next to the depot.