Skip to content
Dorothy’s Flower Shop

The archive

What the shop left behind. The original sign. The card with the street address on it. The patches we still wear. A photograph of the family. A crossing from Sicily, written out by hand in 1906.

  • The original hand-painted Dorothy's Flower Shop sign
    The Sign.

    Hand-painted, cream and sage, with the phone number underneath. Every hat in the shop comes from this board.

  • The shop's printed card: Dorothy's Flower Shop, 55 North Main Street, Glassboro, N.J.
    The Card.

    55 North Main Street, Glassboro, N.J. — 881-6905. The whole business, on one piece of card.

  • A handwritten record of Pasquale Lisa's passage from Sicily to America in 1906
    The Crossing.

    Pasquale Lisa. Born 7 July 1888, Torre Grotta, Messina. Left Naples aboard the steamship Italia, 14 June 1906. New York, the 28th. Barnesboro, Pennsylvania, the 29th, at 10.55 in the morning.

  • A photograph of the family around a table
    The Family.

    Everyone at one table, which is how most of the decisions got made.