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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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 healer
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:46:00+00:00Teresa Vigil, an expert in medicinal herbs (curandera) in her kitchen in San Luis, 2005
Old adobe house
LHP_Intern2019-09-24T06:47:05+00:00Remains of a family home in Costilla County, photo taken in 2005-6
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.