Art gallery director named, 1981
LHP_Intern2019-10-11T04:15:39+00:00Art gallery director named, 1981
Blacksmith Hilario Herminio Paiz of Gurule, 1915
LHP_Intern2019-06-17T19:44:50+00:00Blacksmith Hilario Herminio Paiz (on left) poses outside of a wood building on his ranch in Gulnare, Las Animas County. He was born in 1898 in Gulnare and died in 1983 in Trinidad, Colorado. Herman worked on a ranch in Gulnare homesteaded by his grandfather José de la Cruz Paiz. Herman never married, and stayed at the ranch to take care of his mother, Anastacia Gonzales Paiz.
“Marching through Denver,” a song of the Colorado miners, 1914
LHP_Intern2019-10-09T03:16:46+00:00To be sung to the tune of “Marching through Georgia,” Trinidad Library History Room
“Colorado Miners’ Song,” 1914
LHP_Intern2019-10-09T03:17:02+00:00To be sung to the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Trinidad Library History Room
Union song “Unionism Marching On To Victory,” 1914
LHP_Intern2019-10-09T03:16:01+00:00To be sung to the tune of “Coming through the Rye,” Trinidad Library History Room
Tools for carding and spinning wool
LHP_Intern2019-10-11T04:15:20+00:00Tools for carding and spinning wool
Article about Francisco Coca, musician and activist, and his family, 1988
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T17:14:49+00:00Francisco Coca "brings decades of tradition," playing guitar and singing at Cinco de Mayo festivities in Pueblo's Bessemer Park. From Aguilar, he performs with his wife and children, as La Familia Coca, doing a mixture of “old timers,” including songs from the Mexican Revolution of 1910, and contemporary songs like “Campesino” (farm workers) and “Learn to Read,” from the Nicaraguan revolution.
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.
Coat Made by Gilbert Fernandez in Chimayo Weave, 1976-7
LHP_Intern2020-01-18T17:08:59+00:00Coat hand-woven by Gilbert "Gil" Fernandez in his Weston, Colorado shop. It is made with a Chimayo style weave of his interpretation.
María Salomé Córdova spinning wool
ann2019-03-09T07:33:46+00:00María Salomé Córdova sits in a chair and spins wool into yarn in her yard in Hoehne (Las Animas County), 1930s