British film archivists yesterday have released footage which apparently shows the world’s first mobile phone being used - in 1922.

My great-great grandparents Pietro and Rose (Garbarino) Giannotti. They were both Italian immigrants. ca 1900.

My great-great grandparents Pietro and Rose (Garbarino) Giannotti. They were both Italian immigrants. ca 1900.

My great-great grandparents Filomena (Guarino) and Marciano Moscarito (both from Italy), and my great grandmother Angelina (standing). ca 1900s.

My great-great grandparents Filomena (Guarino) and Marciano Moscarito (both from Italy), and my great grandmother Angelina (standing). ca 1900s.

I just acquired some old pictures of family that I’d like to share.
This is my great grandmother Angelina Moscarito, ca 1915.

I just acquired some old pictures of family that I’d like to share.

This is my great grandmother Angelina Moscarito, ca 1915.

Michael Stennet designed this costume for Alfonso d’Este in Donizetti’s opera Lucrezia Borgia, for the Royal Opera in 1980.

Michael Stennet designed this costume for Alfonso d’Este in Donizetti’s opera Lucrezia Borgia, for the Royal Opera in 1980.

Dress from Richard Strauss’s opera Der Rosenkavalier. Designed by David Walker, 1975.

Dress from Richard Strauss’s opera Der Rosenkavalier. Designed by David Walker, 1975.

The El, 2nd and 3rd Avenue Lines, Bowery and Division Street, Manhattan, 1936

The El, 2nd and 3rd Avenue Lines, Bowery and Division Street, Manhattan, 1936

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