Re: Info on ancestors of Placido D. La Valle
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Info on ancestors of Placido D. La Valle
3/23/00
Dear Dawn,
Your Father's Aunt Teddy was my Mother, Clementina La Valle Cook.She died in 1990.Dominic LaValle was a noted shoe designer and manufacturer in New York City from 1922 until the company went bankrupt in 1953 after his death.Upon my Mother's death I donated a number of pairs of shoes to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,The Fashion Institute of Technology and the Museum of the City of New York.
I would love to develop a history of the company and also edit some ot the 16mm film I have.Dominic LaValle is mentioned in a fashion book published in 1988 ?by Caroline Milbank ?
Sincerely,
Carroll