Portuguese American women]]>
Community organization]]>
Cooking]]>
Immigrants]]>
Women in community organization]]>
Hunt, Richard]]>
Lowell (Mass.)]]>
Veterans]]>
Portuguese American women]]>
Cooking]]>
Peabody (Mass.)]]>
Portuguese American women]]>
Mills and mill-work]]>
Children of immigrants]]>
Education]]>
Cooking]]>
Boardinghouses]]>
Biographical Note:
Wilhemina's parents both immigrated to the United States from the island of Graciosa in the Azores. They got married shortly after arriving and Wilhemina was born on May 30, 1914. Her sister was named Mary Foley. Their parents worked in Boott Mills in Lowell until their father found work in Machester, N.H., where they lived for many years.
Scope and Contents:
Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; tells how Wilhemina's parents immigrated to U.S.; their strict portuguese customs; work in the mills; how Wilhemina parented her children differently; relationship between ethnic groups.]]>
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Lowell (Mass.)]]>
Graciosa (Azores)]]>
Christmas]]>
Catholic Church--Dioceses]]>
Christmas cooking]]>
Cooking]]>
Ethnic food]]>
Portuguese American women]]>
Baptism]]>
Marriage]]>
Boy Scouts]]>
Confirmation]]>
Wills]]>
Recipes]]>
Collection: Lowell Files AKA Vertical Files
Box: 14 Churches St. Anne's - St. Peter's.
Folder: Churches – Saint Anthony's LF.C4789
LF.C4789 UML – St. Anthony’s Newsletter Lowell, Volume 1, Number 4, 2000 December. St. Anthony’s Newsletter Committee, 893 Central Street, Lowell, Massachusetts.]]>
English]]>
Portuguese]]>
Lowell (Mass.)]]>
Veterans]]>
Dinners and dining]]>
Cooking]]>
Portuguese American women]]>
Dance parties]]>
Ethnic food]]>
An additional 22 images from the event that were found in the back of the album have been scanned and added to the end of the PDF.]]>
English]]>
Peabody (Mass.)]]>
Immigrant families]]>
Tenement houses]]>
Mills and mill-work]]>
Education]]>
Ethnic neighborhoods]]>
Cooking]]>
Oral History Interview with Joseph Freitas, February 24, 1999.
Biographical Note:
Joseph Freitas was born on August 23, 1908 in Funchal, Madeira. He immigrated with his mother (Herminia Freitas) to the United State in 1914 when he was 5 years old.
Scope and Contents:
Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; discussion included growing up in tenement housing; leaving school to work in the mills; extending his education; joining the Portuguese American society; living with other ethnic groups; local portuguese culture; playing on the radio]]>
Perkins, Carole MacDougal]]>
English]]>
Lowell (Mass.)]]>
Portuguese American women]]>
Azorean Americans]]>
Children of immigrants]]>
Mills and mill-work]]>
Boardinghouses]]>
Cooking]]>
Norkunas, Martha]]>
English]]>
Lowell (Mass.)]]>
Tenement houses]]>
Portuguese American women]]>
Children of immigrants]]>
Mills and mill-work]]>
Ethnic neighborhoods]]>
Cultural assimilation]]>
Cooking]]>
Boardinghouses]]>
Biographical Note:
Grace Freitas was born in Lawrence, MA on May 23, 1913. Her mother was Maria Mendonca, who was born on April 16, 1883 in the Azores. She left for the United States in 1898. Her father was Leno Espinola. Six weeks after Grace was born, her parents took her back to the Azores for one year, before returning back to Lawrence in 1914. Her parents split after their return. Since they were being raised by a single mother, Grace and her brother worked in the mills from a young age. She later married Joe Freitas.
Scope and Contents:
Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; discussion included Grace's parents' immigration story; time working in the mills; tenement living; Portuguese cooking.
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Perkins, Carole MacDougal]]>
English]]>
Lawrence (Mass.)]]>
Portuguese American women]]>
Children of immigrants]]>
Cooking]]>
Ethnic neighborhoods]]>
Balls (parties)]]>
Cultural assimilation]]>
Veterans]]>
Biographical Note:
Gladys (Glorina) Mendonca Picanso was born on July 18, 1918 in Lowell, MA. Her parents were born on the island of Graciosa. She worked as a hairdresser and owned her own shop.
Scope and Contents:
Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; discussion included her parents' family and immigration; her father's store (Sousa's Market); trips back to the Azores; education history; local dances; her siblings' time in the army; the Holy Ghost Society; current immigration.]]>
Perkins, Carole MacDougal]]>
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English]]>
Lowell (Mass.)]]>
Mills and mill-work]]>
Children of immigrants]]>
Radio programs]]>
Veterans]]>
Ethnic neighborhoods]]>
Cooking]]>
Tenement houses]]>
Biographical Note:
Edward Santos was born on March 25, 1919 in Lowell, MA. His mother, Rose Espanola, was born in Graciosa in 1896 and immigrated to the United States in 1902. His father, Antero Santos, was born in Madeira in 1891 and immigrated to the United States in 1913. His parents were married at St. Anthony's Church on September 26, 1914 by Bishop Henry DaSilva.
Scope and Contents:
Interview conducted by Carole MacDougal Perkins, a grad student in the Department of Psychology at UMass Lowell; conducted at the Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS); spoke about his family's immigration to America; the Back Central neighborhood in Lowell, MA; living conditions; Portuguese food; St. Anthony's feasts; local clubs; radio programs; mill work; economic crash; local sports; time in the military.]]>
Perkins, Carole MacDougal]]>
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English]]>
Lowell (Mass.)]]>
Graciosa (Azores)]]>
Veterans]]>
Dinners and dining]]>
Cooking]]>
Community organization]]>
Shackleton, Nancy]]>
English]]>
Peabody (Mass.)]]>