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Josephine Caputi, Clip 1: Arriving to America on the S.S. Constitution

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Josephine Caputi
Date: Time Period: 1958 - 2017; 2017-03-12; Interview recorded: March 12 2017 Material: Digital audio recording made using SONY IC Recorder PX333 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension: Total running time: 0:03:20
Creator: Josephine Caputi interviewed by Stephanie Gonzalez Identifier: aql:22079 caputi-josephine-clip1

Description: Josephine Caputi was scared moving to a different country not knowing what would happen and not knowing the language. She spent her first year in America in the hospital and learned English there. She also talks about her experience arriving to the United States in a passenger ship called the S.S. Constitution.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:22186

Creator : Josephine Caputi interviewed by Stephanie Gonzalez

Date : Time Period: 1958 - 2017; 2017-03-12; Interview recorded: March 12 2017

Summary/Description : Josephine Caputi was scared moving to a different country not knowing what would happen and not knowing the language. She spent her first year in America in the hospital and learned English there. She also talks about her experience arriving to the United States in a passenger ship called the S.S. Constitution.

Subject : Emigration and immigration; English language

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Coverage : Locations discussed: Fresh Meadows, Queens, NY Fresh Meadows (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using SONY IC Recorder PX333 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:03:20

Identifier : aql:22079 caputi-josephine-clip1

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