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map: "Where is Old Pacific Street?"The Stamford Historical Society Presents

Immigrant's Stamford:
a hands-on experience for elementary school children

recreation of old Pacific Street
stories of immigrant families
display of tenement rooms
family piecework operation
padlock manufacturing production line

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Background information

Along Pacific Street
Store display - "Pacific Street"

 

John Kane demonstrates
how barbers used to work

John Kane demonstrates how barbers used to work
Photo Andrew Sullivan/The Stamford Advocate

 Store display - "Pacific Street"

Barber Shop

Store display - "Pacific Street"
Store display - "Pacific Street" Store display - "Pacific Street" Store display - "Pacific Street"

 
A Tenement Courtyard Family Album Station
Tenement Courtyard

The photo in the background courtesy
The Museum of the City of New York

Dr. Nemoitin & Family, click here for his story

Dr. Jacob Nemoitin
immigrant physician, humanitarian,
painter & poet

Oral History Interview 1962

immigrant's photo wall


Frank Zurzola talking about
his immigrant family

Frank Zurzola
Photo Andrew Sullivan
The Stamford Advocate


 
A Period Kitchen
Kitchen Kitchen with stove  
Kitchen with sink sewing machine Kitchen Calendar, 1911

Kitchen Calendar from 1911


 
Bedroom
Bedroom - washstand Bedroom - bed

 
Trousseau
Trousseau Trousseau - detail

 
Children's Hands-on Work
Assembly line: mock padlocks

Assembly line: mock padlocks

Phil Norgren works with children on a
simulated assembly line in an exhibit about the former
Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.

Phil Norgren works with children
Photo Andrew Sullivan
The Stamford Advocate

completed padlocks 		Recreating child labor

paper flowers made by the children under the direction of Rosemary Vacca

paper flowers made by the children

 
Yale & Towne Locks
Yale lock display Yale lock display

Photos © Stamford Historical Society, The Stamford Advocate (3)

Immigrant's Stamford
Immigrant Stories of Stamford
Stamford Mayor Dannell Malloy accepts calendars for 2002 from the Stamford Historical Society
Frank Zurzola receives award
Frank Zurzola in WWII

We are interested in immigration or migration stories. Details.

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