Venda Ravioli Inc. (pasta-making plant), 31 Rathbone St., Providence, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-2, Stella Sciarra shows oven and baking pans in which meat for cannelloni is baked; 3, Sciarra stands next to streamers for preparing food; 4, Frank Galea and Sciarra show large kettles for boiling pasta (such as shells or manicotti to be stuffed); 5-10, Sciarra fills pasta with meat extruded from machine to prepare cannelloni; she then wraps and boxes completed cannelloni; 11, Owner Alan Constantino checks dough extruder machine which is not functioning properly; 12-13, Constantino and Antonio DiGrovangiacomo check dough extruder to determine nature of minor problem (dough is not coming out with proper consistency); 14, Anthony Gianfrancesco adjusts conveyor belt on cavatelli machine; 15-17, DiGrovangiacomo adjusts mixing blades of dough extruder

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01/01/1979

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