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Ruth Malcomson, posing here with some of her awards, was crowned Miss Philadelphia in 1923 and then Miss America in 1924. Gilda Cetrullo helped make the dress Malcolmson wore in the 1924 pageant.

The young women is operating a drill press in a car factory located in Baltimore Maryland.

The McPherson Square library

Bertha wrote her husband a quick note after he came home from a long journey across the Atlantic.

Southeast Corner of Front Street and Fairmount Avenue

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Sketch of an Abruzzese woman working in the farm that served as a cover of the book called Canzoni Abruzzesi published in 1919 by Cesare De Titta

Bricked street and sidewalk. Row of brick houses with adults and children standing on sidewalk and sitting on stoop. A child runs in front of a section of abandoned houses with missing windows near a lamppost. A short iron gate crosses the front of a…

Enitian Aigbomian is posing for a photo after completing an Oral History Interview at the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Enitan Aigbomian right after her oral history interview at the Free Library, Central Branch, in Philadelphia.