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A in depth story of resident of Little Italy, Al Caniglia, and his success story of opening and successfully running two restaurants in Omaha. The names of these two restaurants were Top of the World and Al Caniglia’s Drawing Room. The story was…

Record inducting the recipient into the United States Military during World War I.

Copy of Concetta Monico's funeral program. She immigrated from Italy as a young girl and died in Nebraska at the age of 104.

Unknown Italian couple's wedding photograph. Surrounded by family members.

Salavatore Monaco worked as an iceman in Little Italy.

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

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

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

Pam's Nonna (Concetta Monaco) gave each grandkids, great-grandkids two dollars from this wallet for the Santa Lucia festival to give to the saint. Her Nonna believed that Santa Lucia saved her Nonno, and this was the way to repay the saint, having…

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