Mexican American women
Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 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
Antonia and Federico Lopez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0808
Abstract
Mexican couple from the state of Guanajuato who settled permanently in Iowa in the 1910s.
Basilisa Herrera papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0868
Abstract
Mexican immigrant to Iowa in the 1910s, member of the Cook's Point community in Davenport, and matriarch of a large family.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Basilisa Herrera 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.
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
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council 10 (Davenport, Iowa) records
Collection
Identifier: IWA0733
Overview
The members of Davenport LULAC Council 10 engaged in a wide range of social and political activities including annual fiestas, civil rights and fair housing.
Lucy and Henry Vargas papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0886
Abstract
Mexican American activists from Davenport, Iowa.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Lucy and Henry Vargas papers
Maria Cano Martinez papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0537
Abstract
Maria Cano came to Iowa from Guanajuato, Mexico, with her parents in 1928. She established a Spanish language interpreter program at the University of Iowa Hospitals in 1975.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Maria Cano Martinez papers
Maria Mercedes Aguilera papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0558
Abstract
Factory worker who was among the first Latinas to be hired at the International Harvester Company Farmall plant in Rock Island, Illinois.
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Maria Mercedes Aguilera papers