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  • Tags: Bettendorf (Iowa)

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Bettendorf foundry workers, including Mexicans, 1920s.

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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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Norberto "Albert" Rodriguez holding daughter Estefania near the boxcars at Holy City, Bettendorf, Iowa, 1925

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Photograph of Muggie Adams Rodriguez holding daughter Estefania Joyce, Bettendorf, Iowa, December 1923. "Probably not Holy City because no houses there had siding. Probably a house on State Street in Bettendorf."

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Photograph of Estefania Rodriguez sitting on blanket in Bettendorf, Iowa, 1923

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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.

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Photograph of Adeline "Aunt Tiny" Adams Rowlett standing with little boy near the boxcars in Holy City barrio, ca. 1928.

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Ernest Milton Rodriguez was born in 1928 in boxcar #8, Holy City, Bettendorf, Iowa.

Page 1 of "Rodriguez Family of Holy City Bettendorf Family Genealogy and History," by Ernest Rodriguez
Family genealogy and history of the family of Albert and Muggie Belva Rodriguez, written by Ernest Rodriguez. In the last three pages of this memoir, Ernest writes about David and Manuel Macías.
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