Work assignment and identification cards for Peter Gomez, husband of Otilia Gomez Savala, from 1934-1935 in Cook's Point, Davenport, during the Depression.
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 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…
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.