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Captions for Photos

Photo 1: Example of what the Images of America series books look like

Photo 2: Joe Desimone, a truck farmer and founder of Pike Place Market, who sold property to the Boeing Company for $1 if they expanded their operations during WWI in Seattle rather than move out of town.

Photo 3: Governor Rosellini for whom a bridge is named, was the first Italian-American and Roman Catholic governor elected west of the Mississippi River, and was instrumental in creating the UW medical and dental schools.

Photo 4: A grocery store owner in Pocatello, ID; a typical business for early Italians

Photo 5: the Loprinzi brothers, “America’s strongest family”, whose descendants still run the gym that was started in the 1930s in Portland.

Book cover for Italians in New Orleans
joe desimone with produce truck seattle circa 1915
Governor Albert D Rosellini 1910-2011
Star Grocery, Pocatello ID Courtesy Rayna Valentine
loprinzi-bros_1940s Portland OR.tif
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