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Domingo Ghirardelli, Sr., Italy and South America 1817-1849, California 1849-1894; San Francisco and Oakland family homes; Italians in California, second and third generations in the U.S.; Ghirardelli Chocolate Co., 1860-1950; Polly Ghirardelli Lawrence and family; Ghirardelli Square. Includes interviews with MARGERY MENEFEE TINGLEY on Domingo Ghirardelli, Jr., and his family, and with BEN W. REED on the Ghirardelli Chocolate Co.: manufacturing chocolate and mustard, company structure, 1939-1962, sale of property to William Matson Roth. Appended Ghirardelli family genealogy.