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Interview with Santi and Minnie Cioni 02/10/1984

1984.016 Creator Todd, Joe L. (Interviewer) Extent (quantity/size) 1 hour 12 minutes Subjects Italy--Emigration and immigration / Mines and mining / United States--Emgration and immigration--History Descriptive Notes Santi and Minnie Cioni were born in Italy. Mr. Cioni immigrated to the US in 1913. Mrs. Cioni came in 1908. Mr. Cioni worked as a coal miner for two years. Cioni discusses Mr. Krebs and the mine disaster of 1898. Krebs was settled by southern Italians. Cioni was a farmer in Italy. He left from Genoa. The boat trip lasted 9 days. He discusses why he came to Krebs from New York. Mrs. Cioni's mother worked in Italian linen factory for 10 cents per day. Her father was a sharecropper. Cioni cared for hogs as a child in Italy. She describes her experience on the boat to America. She also tells stories from Italy, and discusses the difference between Northern and Southern Italians.