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"The Labor of a Mother," a memoir written by Martina Morado Vallejo 1953 to 1958, translated by daughter Florence Vallejo Terronez

"La Obra de una Mama," a memoir written by Martina Morado Vallejo, 1953-1958

Photograph taken on Adella's retirement from Wonderbread, Davenport, Iowa

Vincent Martinez of Cook's Point in Davenport, Iowa, ca. 1943.

Bettendorf foundry workers, including Mexicans, 1920s.

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

Iowa Governor Harold Hughes (center) with former migrant workers José and Irene Guzman (right) after signing the 1967 Iowa migrant child labor law..

Photographs of David & Manuel Macías, from the state of Zacatecas in Mexico, emigrated to the U.S. in 1914 and 1915 respectively to work in the foundry of the Bettendorf Company.

Photograph of some of the early Mexican immigrants who migrated to the Silvis yards to work in the Rock Island Railroad shops. More than half of these Mexican men were recruited by the Macias brothers who taught them music and to play in the musical…