Children participate in the grape boycott picket lines
Mendoza, Rosa
Photo of Rosa Mendoza taken by Photograph by Tarsicio Macias, Hola America Media Group
Photograph by Tarsicio Macias, Hola America Media Group
Iowa City Mexican shanties near the railroad, ca. 1930
The five rectangular buildings seen in this image were the shanties lived in by Mexican families during the 1930s.
Image from a 1933 Sanborn Insurance Company map.
Iowa City freight depot and stockyards, 1917
Mexican railroad workers labored and socialized in this area near the freight depot and stockyards.
Joe Gomez, Walter Hoffman, Florence Gomez, Tillie Gomez, Ronnie Tutor, Charlie Tutor, Cook’s Point, Davenport, Iowa, ca. 1942.
Gomez, Joseph
Gomez, Florence
Savala, Otilia Gomez
Joe Gomez, Cecilia Nunez and Tillie Gomez in front of their Cook’s Point home, ca. 1945.
Tillie Gomez, her father Peter Gomez, and Joe Gomez at a party at Estefania Rodriguez’s house, Davenport, Iowa, ca. 1949.
Rodriguez, Estefanía
Gomez, Peter
Vargas, Henry
Puente, Frances
An article describing the memories of former Cook's Point barrio residents.
Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa
Tillie Gomez playing the mandolin, ca. 1953
Otilia Gomez Savala digital collection, Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.
Photograph