wa00016. Latinas and their Families
Record Group
Identifier: wa00016
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
Adella Martinez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0582
Abstract
A former resident of Cook's Point, Davenport, whose parents emigrated from Mexico to the United States in the early 1900s.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Adella Martinez papers
Alejandra (Hondo) Porrez Lozano papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0771
Overview
Longtime resident of Fort Madison, Iowa, and leader in LULAC Council 304, the first council of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
Antonia and Federico Lopez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0808
Abstract
Mexican couple from the state of Guanajuato who settled permanently in Iowa in the 1910s.
Ernest Rodriguez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0784
Abstract
Davenport civil rights and Chicano activist, born in the predominantly Mexican settlement of Holy City in Bettendorf, Iowa.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Ernest Rodriguez papers
Estefania Joyce Rodriguez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0569
Abstract
Family photographs taken in Iowa, Alabama, and Mexico.
Florence Vallejo Terronez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0577
Abstract
The family came to Horton, Kansas, from Mexico in 1910 and moved to West Des Moines in 1941.
Ila Plasencia papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0979
Overview
First president of the women’s LULAC Council #306 in Des Moines, Iowa, served on state commissions, and advocated for civil rights for Iowa’s Latino community.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Ila Plasencia papers
Ines Garcia papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0467
Abstract
Mexican American whose family migrated to the U.S., and eventually to Iowa, in the early twentieth century.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Ines Garcia papers
Irene and Jose Guzman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0870
Abstract
Photographs and slides pertaining to the Guzman's role in the Migrant Action Program in Mason City, Iowa.
Arrangement Photographs and slides available in the Iowa Digital Library.
Arrangement Photographs and slides available in the Iowa Digital Library.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Irene and Jose Guzman papers
La Casa Latina (Sioux City, Iowa)
Collection
Identifier: IWA0726
Abstract
Non-profit organization that helped recent Latino immigrants and non-English speakers in the Siouxland area obtain human services, healthcare, housing, and other basic needs.