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Photograph of some of the early Mexican immigrants who migrated to the Silvis yards to work in the Rock Island Railroad shops. More than half of these Mexican men were recruited by the Macias brothers who taught them music and to play in the musical…

Photograph of Victoria Bata, circa 2006, when she was interviewed by Kären Mason of the Iowa Women's Archives.

Photograph of the Vallejo sisters the day after Agnes' wedding, in Des Moines, Iowa, June 1945. Left to right: Margaret, Agnes, Florence, Benita, Dorothy, Linda, and Josie.

Photograph of the Vallejo sisters, early 1940s, on the occasion of the 35th wedding anniversary of Martina and Julius Vallejo.

Photograph of the Vallejo family ca. 1934. Julius R. Vallejo (father), Margaret Vallejo Diaz, Helen Vallejo Lopez, Salvador Vallejo, Felix Vallejo, Florence Vallejo, Agnes Vallejo, James Vallejo, Martina Morado Vallejo (mother), Benita Vallejo,…

Photograph of the railroad yard in Silvis, Illinois, where many families lived. At its peak, around 400 Mexicans lived in three adjacent areas within the Rock Island railroad yards in Silvis in the Mexican settlement known as La Yarda. The first two…

Manuel Macias, Director, David Macias, Asistente. The band played a potpourri of American tunes, European classics and Mexican folk music. David Macias standing far right.

Photograph of the gravestone of Adeline Collins Adams in Gadsden, Alabama, March 1966. Adeline Collins Adams lived from 1836-1912 and was grandmother of Muggie Adams Rodriguez.

Photograph of the first band of the Silvis Mexican Community, Silvis, Illinois, 1921. Manuel Macias, director, far left; David Macias, assistant director, behind base drum..

Photograph of Salvador Lopez, son of Antonia and Federico Lopez, in Davenport Iowa, circa 2007.