Girls Learning to Swim, 1948
LHP_Intern2019-09-14T20:26:58+00:00A female swimming instructor with a whistle in her mouth instructs a group of girls in the Steel Company's YMCA pool.
Boys Swimming Team, 1940s
LHP_Intern2019-09-14T20:30:01+00:00Boys' swimming team at the Steelworks YMCA, 1940s
Children of “Mexico,” 1903
LHP_Intern2019-09-12T14:42:46+00:00Photo of some of the children of "Mexico," a neighborhood in Pueblo, 1903
Wedding Photo, 1920s
LHP_Intern2019-09-11T03:45:03+00:00Mr. Pasqual Chacon (bridegroom), Lee Martinez's Parents, Bride (Gomecinda) of Pasqual, ca. 1920's; Salt Creek.
Salt Creek Wedding Photo, 1927
LHP_Intern2019-09-11T03:45:48+00:00Left to right: Carmen Perez Moreno, Macario Chavez, unknown young girl, Blanco, Bride and Groom--Epifania Hernandez and Mariano Nunez, 1927.
Salt Creek Wedding Photo, 1920s
LHP_Intern2019-09-11T03:47:21+00:00In back: Jim Chavez and Maclovia Chavez, Alcadio Rodriguez, (related to Lee's Mother), 1920's.
Hiding Mexican food while in school
LHP_Intern2019-09-11T03:56:59+00:00Joe Chavez recalls in a 1978 interview being embarrassed about taking Mexican food like burritos to school, so he would hide it under a bridge and go get it after school.
Vera Hernandez Esquibel Quote
LHP_Intern2019-09-13T03:03:27+00:00"In Salt Creek, we had no grass. At Roselawn, the cemetery had the grass so us kids would play on the grass while they would have the service of the dead person. That was our playground. But, we were only allowed to go when there was a funeral."
Children with Adobe Oven
LHP_Intern2019-09-11T04:00:01+00:00Italian and Mexican families built outdoor ovens of adobe bricks, plastered with mud. Fires were burned inside the ovens for an hour or two. With the walls hot, the ashes were raked out and pans of bread and pastries were shoved inside with a long-handled paddle. The opening was covered. The hot walls did the baking. Boys wore knee pants, held up by suspenders, or bib overalls. Like their mothers girls wore sun bonnets. This house was made of cottonwood logs, standing upright, then plastered with adobe mud.