Mission Work, Conversion, and the Italian Immigrant in Turn-of-the-century New York City

Authors

Alexandra A. de Luise, CUNY Queens CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2013

Abstract

Anson Phelps Stokes Italian Free Library was an example of an ethnic library located in an Italian enclave of New York City in the 1890s to 1910s. It served a need in helping educate and Americanize Italians living in that area, while also indoctrinating them into Protestant faith by its library director, Pastor Antonio Arrighi.