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This is Pam's Nonna's wallet. The family thinks she brought it over from Italy. Contains a bracelet, six silver coins.

For a granddaughter who got married, Concetta Monaco tatted them a bedspread. Concetta had ten or twelve granddaughters.

A scan of a copy of the Santa Lucia song in Italian, sung at the Santa Lucia Festival in Little Italy, Omaha.

Photographs of Biaggio Laguzza (1887-1983) and Salvatore Laguzza (1894-1915) with biographical information.

Photograph of two women (sisters in the Monaco family) in Little Italy, Omaha.

Photograph of the inside of Salvatore and Concetta Monaco's store on 9th and Pierce in Little Italy Omaha. They both came over from Carlentini Italy.

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.

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

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

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.