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Guarcino Local records show that most of the Tirocchi family in Italy were contadini, or farmers. Not poor, but not wealthy, they were typical of most immigrants who came to the United States in search of opportunity. Family tradition has it that the sisters' widowed mother, Rosa, took the two young women to Rome, where she worked as a cook for a prominent family. Here, Anna and Laura were apprenticed to a dressmaker with a wealthy and perhaps royal clientele. Anna, the prime mover behind the Tirocchi shop, came to America with the ambition of opening such a business herself.
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Postcards of Guarcino
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