Three women at the women's nail driving contest at the annual field day in Trinidad. The picnic was held on August 23, 1919 for all CF&I miners and their families from Las Animas and Huerfano Counties. Two of the women are African-Americans. Woman at left (holding hammer) is Annie Rollins from Toller.
The Quintana sisters talk about the coal mines and their memories of their mom working in the Trinidad coal mine in this 2018 interview. Length: 1:00.
Girls cooking in Home Economics class at Sopris School, 1915
Wooden cabinet with tin work, for keeping food
Stone mortars (molcajetes) used for grinding food
María Onofre Paiz, a young woman, uses a handle to pump gasoline into an elevated tank outside a tin building on the Paiz Ranch in Gulnare (Las Animas County)
Born March 10, 1844 in Peñasco, New Mexico, the daughter of Rafael Paiz and María Dolores Olguín. She married Rafael Chacon on April 15, 1858 in Peñasco, New Mexico. Her father and three of her brothers came to Colorado in the 1860's. Juana and her husband came in 1872. She died in 1927 in Trinidad
Born in 1831 in New Mexico, she married Felipe Baca in 1846 and they later moved to Trinidad. In 1873 they moved into what is now called Baca House. She had 10 children, including Felix Baca. She handled some of the family’s accounts and investments.
Damiana Rivera de Barela, wife of Colorado State Senator Casimiro Barela, poses for a portrait in an embroidered cape trimmed in fur and a hat decorated with feathers, a bow and a veil
