María Eulogia Valdéz
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:58:03+00:00María Eulogia Valdéz, wife of Desiderio “Dario” Gallegos, a mercantile store owner in San Luis (Costilla County). Photo probl. from 1860s.
Elderly woman in headscarf
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:56:48+00:00An unidentified elderly Hispanic woman, probably of Native American descent from either San Luis or Chama in Costilla County, 1950.
Erinea Trujillo Vigil and grandchildren, 1918
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:55:31+00:00Group portrait of Erinea Trujillo Vigil and her grandchildren in San Luis (Costilla County. They are identified as Front row L to R: Jususita Romero, Tonita Romero, Adelia Vigil; Back row L to R: Luis Romero, Magdalena Vigil, Erinea Trujillo Vigil, Isabela Romero, Francisco Vigil, and Antonio Romero.
Lobato family, 1908?
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:53:30+00:00The Lobato Family from San Luis (Costilla County). Front row, left to right: Adela and Eufelia Espinoza, Manuelita Jaramillo, María Odila, Miquela, and Alberto Lobato. Second row: Quirina Espinoza. Third row left to right: Rosavel Lobato, María Epemenia Córdova Lobato, Antonio Teodoro Lobato, Jose Julian “J.J.” Lobato holding son Pedro Lobato and María Salomé Córdova Lobato holding baby daughter Salomé Lobato. Back row, left to right: Refugio, Teodoro, Félez and Julián Lobato, Concepción Lobato Romero holding her son Manuel Romero, and Pedro Romero.
María Salomé Córdova
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T17:18:36+00:00María Salomé Córdova, born April 27, 1867 in Piedras Coloradas near Trinidad, married Jose Julian Labato on September 4, 1889. Jose, a rancher, moved the family to San Luis where they had eight children. María died on September 1, 1960 in Blanca, Colorado. Her husband José died on May 17, 1947 in Alamosa, Colorado. In her later years, María was a weaver.
Old adobe house
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:47:05+00:00Remains of a family home in Costilla County, photo taken in 2005-6
A healer
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:46:00+00:00Teresa Vigil, an expert in medicinal herbs (curandera) in her kitchen in San Luis, 2005
Shaving
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:44:59+00:00An elderly Hispanic American man, identified as Mr. Atencio, sits at a table in his kitchen and shaves in Chama (Costilla County), 1950
A large family home
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:43:47+00:00\José Benito Córdova and his wife Marina Rivera de Córdova pose with their families at their two story, Territorial style, adobe house in Las Córdovas, near El Moro (Las Animas County), 1895
Young cousins
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:42:24+00:00Quirina de la Luz Espinoza and her cousin, Teodoro Lobato, 1904. Teodoro later held offices as Assessor and Treasurer of Conejos, Colorado and in 1940 he opened a liquor store.
Making elderberry jam
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:41:10+00:00Eloisa Esquibel Gallegos and her teenage granddaughter Rafaelita Gallegos prepare elderberries for jam probably in San Luis, 1970?
A woman mail carrier
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:39:24+00:00Josephine Cardenas Lucero delivers mail in San Luis, 1950
Bath time
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:38:24+00:00A young Hispanic girl sits in a metal wash tub and is bathed by her mother in Costilla County, 1950
Eating lunch
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:37:26+00:00An elderly man, probably Mr. Atencio, having lunch in his home in Chama (Costilla County), 1950
Haircut
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:36:26+00:00Grace Rodriguez Serna, wife of Xavier Serna, watches as her son Rodney gets a haircut from local barber Adonaise De Herrera, San Luis, 1970?
María Odila Lobato and Diego Antonio Gallegos
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T07:00:05+00:00Diego Antonio Gallegos and his wife María Odila Lobato de Gallegos pose for their wedding portrait in the early 1920s. The couple were from San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado.