"Little Italy"

[GSCole]

A quick search of MOA Cornell finds "Little Italy" in NYC mentioned in
The North American review, September 1891, 153 #418, in Mrs. Mary A.
Livermore's Cooperative Womanhood in the State, p.293.

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fnora%2Fnora0153%2F&tif=00297.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABQ7578-0153-30

Robert Louis Stevenson is one of the authors of a comment, in The
Wrecker about the Little Italy area of San Francisco, in 1891,
Scribner's magazine, 10 #4 (October), p.429.

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fscri%2Fscri0010%2F&tif=00437.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DAFR7379-0010-47

The "Little Italy" of Ellis Island is mentioned in at least two MOA
Cornell sources.

The concept of a room being a "little Italy", in Boston, is presented in
The Atlantic monthly, 23 #138, April 1969, in W. D. Howell's Doorstep
Acquaintance, on p.485.

"as we had made a little Italy together"

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?root=%2Fmoa%2Fatla%2Fatla0023%2F&tif=00491.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABK2934-0023-73&coll=moa&frames=1&view=50

Most of the other sources presented at MOA Cornell are from the 1890s.
I didn't check all of them.

George Cole
Shippensburg University