• Title
  Lorenzi family papers, 1922-ca. 1979
• Creator
  Lorenzi family
• Call number
  MLMSS 5288 ADD-ON 1975
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1922 - ca. 1979
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings
• Reference code
  442784
• Physical Description
  0.17 metres of textual material (1 box)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Carlo Lorenzi (1900-1980) and his wife, Angiolina, nee Zamboni (1901-1993) were proprietor's of La Veneziana Restaurant, East Sydney, from the late 1940s until 1975. The restaurant's name was coined by Italian patrons who erroneously attributed Angiolina as originating from Venice in the Veneto. Although in the same region m she was in fact born in Verona. Carlo was a butcher in Rovereto, Trentino-Alto Adige when he left with his brothers for Australia in 1927. He married by proxy Angiolina, who arrived in Sydney in 1934. The couple lived in the inner city, Angiolina working as a seamstress from home and taking in lodgers. IN 1940 their daughter, Uvonne was born. During the war Carlo's brothers, Valerio was interned in Loveday Camp, South Australian and became friends with the businessman, linguist and painter, Lamberto Yonna (1891-1967).
  Reference: Library file
• Scope and Content
  Include correspondence, passports, printed material and photographs, mainly of family, friends and restaurant patrons, including the boxer Luigi Coluzzi
  
  MLMSS 5288 ADD-ON 1975
  SERIES 1: Lorenzi family papers
  
  Carlo Lorenzi
  Letters received from i.e. Angiolina Lorenzi, 1932, and his brothers in Italy, 1932, 1947-1952, 1961
  Italian gun license, 1922
  Notebook, 1927-1929
  Receipts and clothing ration card, 1942-1948
  
  Angiolina Lorenzi
  Letters received mainly from her family and friends in Italy, 1933-1961, 1972
  Letters received from her brother, Bruno Zamboni, in Italy, 1935-1938
  Copy extract of birth certificates (9 ? February 1901), Municipio di Verona, Italy, 1931
  Italian passport, 1934
  Australian passports, 1969, 1981
  
  Carlo and Angiolina Lorenzi
  Letters received jointly, 1949-1973
  
  Yvonne Lorenzi
  Letters received, 1949-1961, 1972
  
  Valerio Lorenzi
  Letters received, 1936-1961
  
  Miscellaneous
  Letters received (2) at La Veneziana Restaurant addressed to two patrons, 1952-1953, 1970s
  Menu cover from La Veneziana Restaurant, 1970s
  
  Photographs
  
  SERIES 2: Lorenzi family Pictorial material
  
  Photographs, ca.1925-197-
  Black & white and sepia photographs, ( 68 ) of i.a. Carlo Lorenzi as a butcher in Rovereto, Italy, ca.1925; Lorenzi brothers in Sydney, 192- - 193-; staff outside Hat Bands and Trimmings Company Limited, Waterloo, ca.1935; Cosimo Mariani, Oscar Michelini, and Carlo Lorenzi, Sydney, 195-; Lorenzi family with staff and patrons of La Veneziana Restaurant, 195- - 197- (MLMSS 5288 ADD-ON 1975)
  
  Photographs, ca.1925-197-
  Photograph album, being mainly photographs of family friends and patrons of La Veneziana Restaurant, including the boxers, Luigi Coluzzi, Gaetano Annaloro, Federico Scarponi Fidel La Barba and Saverio Turiello, and autographed memento of Rocky Marciano's visit to Sydney, 196-; the wrestlers, Ilio Di Paolo; the entertainers, Luciano Tajoli and Dana Ghia; and the Apia Reserce Soccer team, 1956 (MLMSS 5288 ADD-ON 1975)
  
  PXE 668
  Lamberto Yonna sketches during World War II internment in Loveday Camp, South Australia
• Language
  Italian, English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright
• General note
  
  Listing available in Italians in New South Wales : A Guide to the Archives in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (1995) (Mitchell Library Manuscripts Guides; no. 17). A copy of this guide is located on the manuscripts' guides shelf in the Mitchell Library Reading Room.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 879122
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Lorenzi, Angiolina, 1901-1993
  
• Name
  Annaloro, Gaetano
  Baccarini, Antonio, 1887-1971
  Bayutti, Giacomo
  Coluzzi, Luigi
  Costanzo, Evasio
  Daneo, Silvio
  Del Drago, Alfonso
  Di Paolo, Ilio
  Ghia, Dana
  La Barba, Fidel
  Lorenzi, Angiolina, 1901-1993
  Lorenzi, Carlo, 1900-1980
  Marciano, Rocky, 1923-1969
  Mariani, Cosimo
  Michelini, Oscar
  Quaglia, Filiberto
  Scarponi, Federico
  Stefenelli, Ferruccio
  Stratico, Luigia
  Taioli, Luciano
  Turiello, Saverio
  Yonna, Lamberto, 1891-1967
  
• Subject
  Immigrants--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Italian Australians.
  Italians--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Restaurateurs--New South Wales--Sydney.
  
• Topic
  boxers
  businesspeople
  butchers
  cooks
  customers
  dinners
  espresso machines
  families
  food
  girls
  Italians
  journalists
  kitchens
  migrants
  performers
  personnel
  portraits
  restaurants, cafes etc.
  restaurateurs
  singers
  soccer players
  wrestlers
  
• Place
  La Veneziana Restaurant (73 Stanley Street, East Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE985427

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