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El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument , 125 Paseo de la Plaza, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Curator: Marianna Gatto. (213)485-8432

The Italian Collection, San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch. Civic Center. San Francisco, CA. Curator: Andrew Canepa.

The North Beach Museum. Eureka Federal Savings, 1435 Stockton St., San Francisco, CA.

Italian Oral History Institute. 125 Paseo de la Plaza, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Director: Luisa Del Giudice. (213)485-8432

Select Bibliography:

Cinel, Dino. From Italy to San Francisco: The Immigrant Experience. Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, 1982.

DiStasi, Lawrence, ed. Dream Streets: The Big Book of Italian American Culture . New York: Harper & Row, 1989. (reprinted as The Big Book of Italian American Culture. Bolinas, California: Sanniti Publications, 1996).

DiStasi, Lawrence, ed. Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment During World War II. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2001.

Fox, Stephen. The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.

Gumina, Deanna Paoli. The Italians of San Francisco, 1850-1930. New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1978.

Lothrop, Gloria Ricci. Chi Siamo: The Italians of Los Angeles. Pasadena, California: Tabula Rasa Press, 1982.

_____________. Fulfilling the Promise of California: An Anthology of Essays on the Italian American Experience in California. Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clark, 2000.

Rolle, Andrew F. The Immigrant Upraised: Italian Adventurers and Colonists in an Expanding America. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968.

____________. Westward the Immigrants: Italian Adventurers and Colonists in an Expanding America. (Niwot, Colo.: University of Colorado Press, 1999.

Scherini, Rose. The Italian American Community of San Francisco. New York: Arno Press, 1980.

Sensi Isolani, Paola and Martinelli, Phyllis, eds. Struggle and Success: An Anthology of the Italian Immigrant Experience in California. New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1993.