Rosa Casalina-Rispoli
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Rosa Casalina-Rispoli
Updated May 27, 2025
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Anthony Rosato
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01/26/2020
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AncientFaces
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12/09/2020
Rosa Casalina-Rispoli showing off a lot of style. Love the hat and the purse but we know that many will object to the fur. We don't know the date - can you tell from the fashion clues?
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Very elegant except for the white underwear showing! Lol
Ree Young
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12/09/2020
Pat Lo Duca That's not underwear. At the edge of the dress sleeve, near her elbow, you can see that the white material actually ends.
This woman is wearing an expensive and fashionable dress. No way she would have worn long winter underwear under it that showed like that! And only winter underwear had long sleeves.
We can't see her other arm, so it's possible it might even be a bandage on her arm. People did get injured back then and had to have bandages. But that wouldn't have stopped her from getting her picture taken on a special occasion.
This woman is wearing an expensive and fashionable dress. No way she would have worn long winter underwear under it that showed like that! And only winter underwear had long sleeves.
We can't see her other arm, so it's possible it might even be a bandage on her arm. People did get injured back then and had to have bandages. But that wouldn't have stopped her from getting her picture taken on a special occasion.
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Ree Young it was a crack! Just trying to be a smart Alec!
Ree Young
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12/09/2020
The lowered waistline is definitely the 1920s, as is the way the sleeves drape, the beading, and the hat and veil, too.
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The dress looks like it has a dropped waist indicating the 1920s. We have to remember that this era was not far from the time when you had to have real fur to stay warm. Then through the 1930s and 1940s women clung to a fur stole as a fashion and as a bit of show off.
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Linda Vance the 20's is what I was thinking to because of the dress style.
Anthony Rosato
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01/26/2023
I don't know when the photo of my grandmother Rosa was taken. She was born in the Nola section of Naples on April 6, 1895, and emigrated to the US through Ellis Island with her father (Giuseppe Cassalina) when she was a very young girl - perhaps at 10 years old. She passed away on July 26, 1975.
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My father's side is full blood Sicilian and my mother's side is a combination of Welsh, Scottish, German and a few other European cultures. One of my more colorful (ahem black sheep) family members came over on the Mayflower. He was among the first to be hanged in the New World for a criminal offense he made while onboard the ship.
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