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Bettendorf foundry workers, including Mexicans, 1920s.

Manuel Gamio, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, created this map from the 1920 U.S. census.

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

Photograph of Diaz family in front of their boxcar, El Cometa, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1920s.
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