Series I. Vizzini family documents and photographs, 1925-1972, inclusive

A fraternal organization of men born in Sicily or whose paternal ancestry was Sicilian. Folder contains:
• "Costituzione Fondamentale e Leggi Generali della Legione dei Vespri" ["Fundamental Constitution and General Laws of the Vespers Legion"] (n.p., n.d., but amendment at end dated January 1, 1927).
• "Libretto di Pagamento" [dues book] for Salvatore Vizzini, 43 East 1st Street, New York, recording payments made 1933–1934. With "Tessera di Riconoscimento" [identification card] for Vizzini, dated December 22, 1933. Verso indicates the "Sicilia" centuria (the Vespers Legion's term for chapter) met the second Friday of every month at the Broadway Central Hotel, 673 Broadway.

Certificates documenting Vizzini's attendance at the City of New York Department of Education's Evening Elementary School and Summer School, and the W.P.A. Adult Education Program's English and citizenship classes.

See also Box 3, Enclosure 1.

Letters addressed to Salvatore Vizzini (some containing dried leaves) in pre-printed envelopes for "Salvatore Maida, Italian American Grocery, Imported Cheese & Olive Oil, 43 [East] First St., U.S. of America, New York, N.Y." The salutation of each letter — "miei cari figli" ("my dear children") — indicates they were written by one of Vizzini's parents, Calogero Vizzini or Paola Maida. That Vizzini's mother was a Maida suggests Salvatore Maida was a relative. At the time of his death in 1939, Salvatore Maida was president and Vizzini was recording secretary of the Società di Mutuo Soccorso Maria SS.ma del Monte Fra i Cittadini di Racalmuto in New York (Mutual Aid Society of Maria Santissima del Monte among the Citizens of Racalmuto in New York; see Series II). A final, undated letter is signed Giovanni Petruzzella.

• "City of New York Municipal Civil Service Commission Experience Paper" filled out with Salvatore Vizzini's employment record as a blacksmith and iron worker, 1934–1949.
• Catalog of "Hand-Wrought Period Lamps & Reproductions" offered by the Beaux Art[s] Lamp & Novelty Company. With business cards. According to the donor, Vizzini conducted this business prior to 1937.
• Postal card addressed to Vizzini announcing a membership meeting of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers (I.A.B.S.&O.I.W.) Shopmens Local 455 Union, May 26, 1944.
• Certificate authorizing Vizzini, employee of the J. W. Fiske Iron Works, to wear the Army-Navy Production Award Emblem (also known as the "E" or "Excellence in War Production Award"), circa 1942–1945.

Receipts of Vizzini's contributions and membership dues.

Joint passport for Maddalena Tinebra (later Vizzini), her stepmother, Calogera Farrauto (b. 1897), and half-brother, Luigi Tinebra (b. circa 1922).

See also Box 3, Enclosure 1.

The reception was held at the Great Central Palace, 90-96 Clinton Street, Manhattan.

The ceremony took place at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph, Catherine at Monroe Streets, Manhattan, with the reception following at the Stuyvesant Casino, 140-142 Second Avenue. The invitation notes the bride's address was 144 Cherry Street, and that the couple's future address would be 67 East 4th Street.

Photographer's imprint reads "Italian Art Studio, 243 Grand St., N.Y.C."

New York Infirmary for Women and Children of the City of New York, hospital birth certificate for Calogero "Charles" Vizzini (April 14, 1937), with a certificate of baptism from the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity, 44 Second Avenue, dated August 29, 1937. Includes an invitation to the joint baptismal reception for Pauline and Charles Vizzini, April 29, 1937, at Beethoven Hall, 210 East 5th Street, Manhattan.

Junior High School 234, today's W. A. Cunningham I.S. 234, 1875 East 17th Street, Brooklyn.

James Madison High School, 3787 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn.

Eighteen celluloid portraits, most tinted, and mounted to metal pocket-sized mirrors, 7 rectangular, 8 oval, and 4 circular. One of the circular photographs is actually a small lapel pin. Some photographs document the Roman Catholic sacraments of first communion, confirmation, and marriage. Others are baby or adult portraits. None of the images are identified, but Salvatore and Maddalena (Tinebra) Vizzini and their children Pauline and Charles are recognizable. An older couple might be Maddalena's father and stepmother, Vincenzo and Caologera (Farrauto) Tinebra.

Covers of envelopes and folders that held the collection, with the donor's notes and explanations.