Bettendorf foundry workers
description: Bettendorf foundry workers, including Mexicans, 1920s.
source: Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa

Map of the United States showing Mexican migration in the 1920s.
description: Manuel Gamio, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, created this map from the 1920 U.S. census.
source: Manuel Gamio, Mexican Immigration to the United States: A Study of Human Migration and Adjustment (University of Chicago Press, 1930).

Hawkeye Portland Cement Company

Three maps of Holy City barrio in Bettendorf, Iowa.
description: Between the 1910s and 1940s, the Holy City barrio was home to many Mexicans who worked in the foundries of the Bettendorf Car Company and Zimmerman Steel Company
source: Ernest Rodriguez papers, Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa Iowa Digital Library, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/ref/collection/latinas/id/2335

Díaz family, Fort Madison, Iowa.
description: Photograph of Diaz family in front of their boxcar, El Cometa, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1920s.
source: Ines Garcia papers, Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.
rights: Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution of this digital object is not permitted without written permission of the Iowa Women's Archives.
coverage: Fort Madison (Iowa)

Birthplace of Muggie Adams

Charles and Nestora Rivera

Estefania and Camila Rodriguez

Four children on steps of barrio

Muggie and Norberto Rodriguez with Nestora