SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ITALIANS IN UTAH
Compiled by Philip F. Notarianni, Ph.D.
December 2000
BOOKS
Jones, "Mother" Mary. Autobiography of Mother Jones. Edited
by Mary Field Parton. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Co., 1925.
Kelen, Leslie G., and Fuller, Sandra T., ed. The Other Utahns.
A Photographic Portfolio. Salt Lake City: University of
Utah Press, 1988.
Kelen, Leslie G., and Stone, Eileen Hallet. Missing Stories: An Oral History of
Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah. Salt Lake City: University of Utah
Press, 1996.
Notarianni, Philip F., ed. Carbon County: Utah's Industrialized
Island. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1980.
Pagano, Jo. Golden Wedding. New York: Arno Press [Reprint], 1975.
Rolle, Andrew F. The Immigrant Upraised. Italian Adventurers and
Colonists in an Expanding America. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1968.
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Schiavo, Giovanni. Four Centuries of Italian-American History.
New York, 1952.
Valentini, Zopito. Un Anno Senza Rondini. Firenza: Vallecchi
Editore, 1930.
[Valentini, Zopito]. Attivita` Italiane nella Intermountain Region. Salt Lake City:
International Publishing Company,
1930.
[Unknown]. Golden Anniversary of the Friendly Club 1937-1987.
Tyrolean-Italian Heritage. Ogden, Utah: Tod Printing, 1987.
Copy at the Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.
THESES & DISSERTATIONS
De Lucia, Amanda. "Tyrolean-Italian Heritage in West Weber, Utah." M.A. thesis,
University of Utah, 1991.
Notarianni, Philip F. "The Italian Immigrant in Utah: Nativism 19001925." M.A. Thesis, University of Utah, 1972.
"Tale of Two Towns: The Social Dynamics of Eureka and
Helper, Utah." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Utah, 1980.
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ARTICLES
Busco, Ralph A., and Alder, Douglas D. "German and Italian Prisoners of War in
Utah and Idaho," Utah Historical Quarterly, 39 (1971): 55-72.
Carter, Thomas. "The Architecture of Immigration: Documenting Italian-American
Vernacular Buildings in Utah and Nevada," in Taylor, David A. and Williams,
John Alexander, ed. Old Ties, New Attachments: Italian-American Folklife in
the West. Washington, D.C., 1992.
Cuneo, Giuseppe. "L'Immigrazione Italiana nel Colorado e
nell' Utah." Bollettino dell' Emigrazione (1902): 26-34.
Dalpiaz, Joseph J. "Loggia Stella D"America, Helper, Utah."
La Parola del Popolo, December 1958-January 1959, p. 268.
Litizzette, Stanley V. "A Catholic History of North Carbon County,
Utah." St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Helper, Utah, Twenty-
Fifth Anniversary, 1945-1970. Price, Utah, 1974.
Notarianni, Philip F. "Italian Oral History: A Personal View,"
Ethnic Oral History at the American West Center, University of
Utah. Salt Lake City: American West Center, 1973.
"Italian Fraternal Organizations in Utah, 1897-1934,"
Utah Historical Quarterly, 43 (Spring 1975): 172-187.
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"Italianita` in Utah: The Immigrant Experience," in
Helen Z. Papanikolas, ed. The Peoples of Utah. Salt Lake City:
Utah State Historical Society, 1976, pp. 303-331.
"Italian Sausage Making Is a Family Affair," Beehive
History 4, (1978): 10-13.
"Utah's Ellis Island: The Difficult 'Americanization' of
Carbon County," Utah Historical Quarterly, 47 (Spring 1979);
178-193.
"Italian Involvement in the 1903-04 Coal Miners" Strike in
Southern Colorado and Utah," in George E. Pozzetta, ed. Pane E
Lavoro; The Italian American Working Class. Toronto: The
Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1980, pp. 47-65.
co authored with Richard Raspa. "The Italian Community of
Helper, Utah: Its Historic and Folkloric Past and Present," in
Richard N. Juliani, ed. The Family and Community Life of Italian
Americans. Staten Island: The Italian American Historical
Association, 1983, pp. 23-33.
"Rise to Legitamcy: Frank Bonacci as Union Organizer,
Rendezvous, Idaho State University Journal of Arts and Letters,"
19 (Fall 1983): 67-74.
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"Helper: Town of 'Fifty-Seven Varieties.'" Carbon County
Journal 2 (Summer 1983): 1-7.
"The Study of Ethnic Folklore in Utah," in Utah Folklife
Newsletter, 22,3 (Fall 1988): 2-7.
"Places of Origin: Calabresi in Carbon County, Utah," in Taylor, David A.
and Williams, John Alexander, ed. Old Ties, New Attachments: Italian-
American Folklife in the West. Washington, D.C., 1992.
“The Family Endures: A Look at Utah History.” Beehive History 25 (1999):
3-7.
Papanikolas, Helen Z. "Ethnicity in Mormondom: A Comparison of
Immigrant and Mormon Culture," in Thomas G. Alexander, ed.
"Soul-butter and Hog Wash" and other Essays on the American
West. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1978.
"Unionism, Communism, and the Great Depression: The
Carbon County Coal Strike of 1933." Utah Historical
Quarterly 41 (Summer 1973): 254-300.
"Life and Labor Among the Immigrants of Bingham
Canyon." Utah Historical Quarterly 33 (Fall 1965): 289-315.
Powell, Allan Kent. "The 'Foreign Element' and the 1903-4 Carbon
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County Coal Miners' Strike." Utah Historical Quarterly
43 (Spring 1975): 125-154.
Raspa, Richard. "Exotic Foods Among Italian-Americans in Mormon Utah:
Food as Nostalgic Enactment of Identity," in Linda Keller Brown
and Kay Mussell, eds. Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United
States. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984, pp. 185194.
Siporin, Steve. "Our Way of Life was Very Clear," Northwest Folklore 8 (1990):
3-18.
"Folklife and Survival: Italian-Americans of Carbon County, Utah," in
Taylor, David A. and Williams, John Alexander, ed. Old Ties, New
Attachments: Italian-American Folklife in the West. Washington, D.C., 1992.
NEWSPAPERS
Corriere D'America. (Salt Lake City, Utah), 1931-1935 (?). On
microfilm at the Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, Utah. A copy of October 21, 1933 located in the Morganti
Collection, IHRC, University of Minnesota.
La Gazzetta Italiana. (Salt Lake City, Utah), February 15, 1913.
In the Cesare Morganti Collection, Immigration History Research
Center (IHRC), University of Minnesota.
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Il Lavoratore Italiano. (Trinidad, Colorado and Pittsburg, Kansas),
1903-1911. On microfilm at the IHRC, University of Minnesota.
The Morganti collection, IHRC, contains sporadic issues from 1908
and 1909.
Il Minatore. (Salt Lake City, Utah), 1908-1911. On microfilm at the
Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Il Proletario. (New York), 1903-1904. On microfilm at the IHRC,
University of Minnesota.
La Follia di New York. (New York), 1927. Copies of La Follia are on
microfilm at the IHRC, University of Minnesota.
La Protesta Umana. (San Francisco, California), 1900-1904. On
microfilm at the IHRC, University of Minnesota.
La Stampa. (Salt Lake City, Utah), August 28, 1926. Morganti
Collection, IHRC, University of Minnesota.
La Voce del Popolo. (San Francisco), 1868-1905. On microfilm at the
IHRC, University of Minnesota.
Wyoming Labor Journal. (Cheyenne, Wyoming), 1921.
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PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
U.S. Congress. Senate. Reports of the Immigrantion Commission.
Immigrants in Industries, Part 25: Japanese and Other Immigrant
Races in the Pacific Coast aand Rocky Mountain States, S. Doc.
633, 61st Cong., 2d sess., 1911.
U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Census
of the United States, 1910: Population, vol. 3 (of greater
value is the actual manuscript census available on microfilm for
1900 and 1910).
State of Utah. Report of the Industrial Commission of Utah, 1921-1930.
State of Utah. Report of the State Bureau of Immigration, Labor and
Statistics, 1911-1914.
State of Utah. Report of the State Coal Mine Inspector, 1896-1913.
MANUSCRIPTS
Denver, Colorado. Colorado Archives and Records Service.
Office of the Governor: James H. Peabody Papers. Records of
Italian involvement in the 1903-04 coal miner's strike.
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Price, Utah. United Mine Workers of America. Coal Miners' Pension
Application
Files. Information on Italian coal miners.
Provo, Utah. Brigham Young University Library. Spring Canyon Area
Coal Company Records, MSS 252. Utah Fuel Company Records, MSS
154. Labor records of Italian coal miners in Utah.
Salt Lake City, Utah. University of Utah Library, Marriott Library,
Special Collections, Italian Archives. Records of the "Stella
D'America" Lodge, Helper, Utah - applications, by-laws, and
meeting minutes. Printed Rules and Regulations of "La Societa'
Cristoforo Colombo," Salt Lake City, Utah, and "La Societa'
Minatori Italiani," Sunnyside, Utah. Minute books of various
meetings of "La Societa' Cristoforo Colombo." Lodge ribbons
of "La Societa' Cristoforo Colombo" and "La Societa' Minatori
Italiani." Miscellaneous photographs of Italians in Utah. This
collection also houses oral history interviews (transcribed) on
Italians in
Utah from the "Utah Minorities Oral History Project,"
American West Center, University of Utah.
Salt Lake City, Utah. Utah State Archives, State Capitol.
Governor's Correspondence Files and Letter Books,
1896-1933, of Heber M. Wells, John Cutler, William Spry,
Simon Bamberger, Charles R. Mabey, and George H. Dern. Various
correspondence concerning Italians in Utah and the United States.
Documents pertaining to the 1924 coal mine explosion at Castle
Gate, Utah.
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Salt Lake City, Utah. Utah State Historical Society. Frank
Bonacci Manuscript and Papers (copies). Italians - Peoples of
Utah Photograph Collection. Helper Commercial Historic District
National Register of Historic Places Inventory Form. Helper
Multiple Resource District Records. Utah State Gazzetteers &
Business Directories. Antonio Jachetta Collection, including a
complete list of Grimaldese in America and Canada who contributed
to the World War I monument in Grimaldi, Italy (entitled,
"Sottoscrizione Fatta dal Vindice Pro Monumento ai Caduti in
Guerra - Grimaldi"). Christopher Columbus Lodge Trophy, Pioneer
Days Parade, July 24, 1931, and Italian lodge flags. Various
papers (copies) of Fortunato Anselmo, Italian Vice Consul,
including a scrapbook, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
Sporadic copies of the "All State Italian Day" programs of the
Italian-American Civic League, Salt Lake City, from 1934 to
1989.
Various oral histories of Italians in Utah (transcribed).
Salt Lake City, Utah. Oral History Institute. Contemporary (1980s)
photographs and oral histories of Italians in Utah, used in the
exhibit, "Working Together: A Utah Portfolio" and the
publication, The Other Utahns.
St. Paul, Minnesota. Immigration History Research Center, University of
Minnesota. An extensive archival collection of Italian-American
material pertaining to the entire United States; including
personal papers, organizational records, books, periodicals,
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newspapers, and photographs. The collections of Vincent Massari
and Cesare Morganti are especially significant for the American
West. In addition to the Utah newspapers listed above, the
Morganti collection contains the following newspapers from
Colorado and Wyoming: Il Risveglio (Denver), Vita Nuova (Rock
Springs, Wyoming), Columbus (Denver), Marsica Nuova (Pueblo,
Colorado), L'Italiano (Denver), America (Denver), Il Grido Del
Popolo (Denver and Rock Springs), Corriere Di Trinidad (Trinidad,
Colorado), Roma (Denver), Rivista Italo-Americana (Denver), Il
Vindice (Pueblo), L'Unione (Pueblo), La Capitale (Denver), La
Frusta (Denver), The Trumpet (La Tromba) (Denver), and The Weekly
Journal (Denver). Archivio Storico, Rome, Microfilm of Documents
Pertaining to Italian Immigration to the United States, 1880-1913.
Microfilm of Italian Legation in the United States, Notes to the
Department of State.
Washington, D.C. United Mine Workers of America Records. District 15
Correspondence, 1911-1921. District 22 Correspondence 1921-1934.
Numerous documents pertaining to the activity of labor organizer
Frank Bonacci in Utah and throughout the Intermountain West.
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