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Photograph of María Díaz
Photograph of María Díaz outside boxcar home in El Cometa, Fort Madison Iowa, 1920s.
Photograph of Luz Salazar Gomez holding nephew Trinidad Gomez
Cook's Point, Davenport, 1945. Left to right: Tillie Gomez, Florence Gomez, their mother Luz Gomez; Joe Gomez in the background climbing the fence post.
Type: Photograph
Photograph of Lucy Juarez and her mother
Cook's Point, Davenport, 1940s.
Type: Photograph
Photograph of Florence Gomez
Photograph of Florence Gomez, Cook's Point, ca. 1945. Florence Gomez later married John Terronez, the son of Mary Ramirez and Felipe Bravo Terronez.
Type: Photograph
Photograph of Adeline "Aunt Tiny" Adams Rowlett
Photograph of Adeline "Aunt Tiny" Adams Rowlett standing with little boy near the boxcars in Holy City barrio, ca. 1928.
Norberto "Albert" Rodriguez and Estefania Rodriguezin Holy City barrio, Bettendorf.
Norberto "Albert" Rodriguez holding daughter Estefania near the boxcars at Holy City, Bettendorf, Iowa, 1925
Memories of Cook's Point
Memories of Cook's Point, compiled by Pedro Gomez, 1992.
Maria Mercedes Aguilera
Maria Mercedes Aguilera stands by the family car dressed for First Holy Communion, Cook's Point, 1940s.
Map of El Cometa barrio, Fort Madison, Iowa
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Fort Madison Iowa showing "Mexican Shanty Town," or the barrio known as "El Cometa," located in the Santa Fe Railroad Yard.