Physical description: Group of school children on the steps of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grade School (see PCCLI0747), Denver, about 1940. Hand written on bottom front: George C. Brancucci. George C. Brancucci was born in 1928 and died in 2003. Other names noted on the back include: Ciccone, Giuseppina Pavoni, Jacobozzi, Marranzino, Grosso, Rose Scareline, Josephine Rullo, Anthony Mancinelli, Gerald Natale, Giraldi, Lucy Balzani, Rocco Carabetta, Anthony Smaldone, Alex DeGeorge, Clyde Felasco, Mike Scarpella, Labriola, Fred Corbetta, JOhn Gargaro and Mike Marino.
This photograph is a digital scan of an original photograph lent for copying during the Italians of Colorado project. The original photograph is not owned by History Colorado. The digital scan was donated with permissions (see permissions in Registrar's file) and accessioned into the History Colorado collection.
Project description:
In 2002, the Colorado Historical Society (now known as History Colorado) founded the Colorado Italian American Preservation Association (CIAPA). A volunteer organization, CIAPA’s mission is to work collaboratively with the Society and other organizations to develop, support and coordinate projects that preserve, promote and celebrate Italian American culture and heritage. Since 2002, CIAPA has carried out its mission by meeting with people from the Colorado Italian American community, recording their stories and creating an archive of research materials that includes oral histories, photographs, moving images, sound recordings and artifacts. To date, CIAPA has helped the Society acquire over 200 oral histories, 600 artifacts and nearly 6,000 photographs. Since 2002, CIAPA has developed over 4,000 research files, all of which document the history, culture and traditions of Italian American families in Colorado.
Notes:
See MSS.02595 Ralph and Rosemary Mancinelli files for additional information and images.
From the book Italy in Colorado by Alisa DiGiacomo:
In 1908, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart moved the Mount Carmel School to the unused Saint Rocco Chapel on Osage Street. Built in 1901 by Frank Damascio, Damascio remodeled and adapted it for a school by dividing the intended sanctuary into two floors, with seven classrooms on the lower floor and a gymnasium-auditorium on the upper level. The Mount Carmel School’s continued growth ultimately led to the construction of a high school in 1951 and a new grade school in 1954