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Photograph of Norberto Rodriguez holding daughter Estefania Joyce in Bettendorf, Iowa, ca. 1925.

Otilia Gomez stands in front her home in the Cook's Point barrio in Davenport, Iowa circa 1945. The buckets on her left were used to carry water from the two outside pumps used by residents throughout the year.

From left, Richard (3 yrs.), John (4 yrs.), and Estefania Rodriguez (5 yrs.) in front of their boxcar home in Holy City, Bettendorf, Iowa, ca. 1928.

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

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 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.

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 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…

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