Peter Picanso working on Market Street

Peter Picanso working on Market Street

Peter (Pedroso) Picanso was born in the Azores in 1867 to Azorean parents Manuel C. Picanso and Maria Violanta. After immigrating to Lowell, Massachusetts, he worked as a mill laborer and an operative worker. He married Maria Correira Picanso and had two children: Maria Picanso (later Mary P. Braga) and Juan (John) Correra Picanso. The family resided at 209 Charles Street. Picanso died the night of February 19th, 1917 as a result of injuries he sustained while at work in a David Ziskind & Co. junkyard, and was survived by his wife and two children.

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Collection: Lowell Files (Photograph and Image)
Box: 99
Folder: Picanso, Peter

UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History

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