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Wedded Bliss: 1955

During a recent holiday, I was finding photos to preserve for personal family reasons and found this. I believe it was once owned by my wife's mother. Wedding postcard of Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Petruzella taken February 20, 1955 in Alabama (probably Birmingham). Most likely related to my mother-in-law, as her mother's last name was Petruzella. Probably a cousin. Photographer listed as V. Cappalonga but no longer in business. View full size.

During a recent holiday, I was finding photos to preserve for personal family reasons and found this. I believe it was once owned by my wife's mother. Wedding postcard of Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Petruzella taken February 20, 1955 in Alabama (probably Birmingham). Most likely related to my mother-in-law, as her mother's last name was Petruzella. Probably a cousin. Photographer listed as V. Cappalonga but no longer in business. View full size.

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I don't think we're in Alabama anymore

Most of these old photographs have the name of the city or town where the studio was located, and this is no exception. Mussomeli is a town in Sicily, and there is still a photography studio under the name of Vincenzo Cappalonga doing business there.

So they probably are relatives of your wife's family, but a little more distant (geographically speaking) than you first suspected.

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