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BettendorfCompanyWorkers.jpg
Bettendorf foundry workers, including Mexicans, 1920s.

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

latinas_2339.jpg
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

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