Donato Marini comes to AMERICA!
I guess Dan (left) WITH CIGARETTE & his brother also with a smoke, (No. This is not photoshopped), must've need a good smoke to relax them before the long trip to America. Dan entered the states as shown above when he was 15. He's about 8-10 here so he must've been really relaxed! Or wired...without cigarettes on board.Click on each picture to view/print full size. Badly spolied by water marks, dust & tears, I have restored this vintage Marini photo in b&w & sepia. Recently found was the additional photo taken that day. The children are without hats but Mrs. Marini is now wearing "fur."
The backdrop is just that, a fake background very common for portraits during this period.
However imagine the photo taken in San Dona to. It might've looked more like this one "pictured," above in the old country. 
I've also taken the ship's document, blending it with the San Donato photo:The next two offer a custom blend of the photo with the ship's manifest including the ship itself:
Clara (in white) & Dan meet for the very first time!
Is this real? Well, maybe not but it's what they would've looked like when they first met.
