Rural folk band
LHP_Intern2019-12-13T20:29:03+00:00Brothers José Filiberto Martinez, far left with violin and Gaspar Martinez, 2nd left with guitar, play with a rural folk band in San Luis Valley, Colorado, 1915-20.
Colcha showing San Luis scene
LHP_Intern2019-12-13T20:29:53+00:00View of a colcha by Hispanic American Teresa Vigil of San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. The embroidery of a rural scene in the San Luis Valley depicts men fishing in a stream, a woman cooking a fish and a man in a horse-drawn wagon.
Oral History interview, Theresa Vigil, 2011
LHP_Intern2019-12-13T20:30:24+00:00Interview with Theresa Vigil, including description of colcha embroidery (at 12:15)
Colcha, San Luis Valley
LHP_Intern2019-12-13T20:30:57+00:00Traditional colcha embroidery by Josie Lobato featuring the Capilla de Todos los Santos in San Luis
Our Lady of Guadalupe Rock Art
LHP_Intern2019-12-13T20:31:58+00:00A pictograph of Our Lady of Guadalupe created in the 1940s or 50s in Penitente Canyon near La Garita
El movimiento artwork
LHP_Intern2019-12-13T20:32:25+00:00Paintings from the El Movimiento period of Chicano activism, 1960s-70s, as displayed in an exhibit.
Storage towers, Antonito
LHP_Intern2019-12-13T20:32:51+00:00Carefully decorated storage towers in the town of Antonito
Water serpent mural, Antonito
LHP_Intern2019-12-13T20:33:21+00:00The “Great Water Serpent of the Rio Grande” mural on a Save the Children building in the town of Antonito
Antonito band to play
LHP_Intern2019-12-13T20:33:51+00:00Band from Antonito to play at a celebration in Los Pinos, with dancing, 1900 (article in Spanish)
Weaving tools
LHP_Intern2019-12-13T20:34:17+00:00A spindle and bowl made by Alberto Lobato and two hand carders used by weaver María Salomé Córdova, his mother, 1940s
Hand woven blanket
LHP_Intern2019-12-13T20:34:54+00:00A hand-woven Rio Grande style blanket made at a WPA sponsored weaving project in San Luis (Costilla County), 1940s
San Luis Institute chorus, 1953
LHP_Intern2019-12-13T20:35:23+00:00Members of the San Luis Institute chorus pose around an upright piano at the San Luis Institute of the Arts and Crafts in San Luis
Ramon del Castillo, 2001
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T17:12:31+00:00Ramon Del Castillo, a professor of Chicano studies at Metropolitan State College of Denver and a well known Chicano poet, plays hand drums with an unidentified musician group at the Santa Anna Fiesta in San Luis (Costilla County)