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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.
Dates:
1922-2005
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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.
Dates:
1924-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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.
Dates:
1910-2014
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Lucy and Henry Vargas papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0886
Abstract
Mexican American activists from Davenport, Iowa.
Dates:
1930-2013
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Manuel and David Macias papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0887
Abstract
Arrangement
Brothers who emigrated to Bettendorf, Iowa, from Zacatecas, Mexico, in 1914 and 1915.
Arrangement
The full extent of the Manuel and David Macias collection is preserved in the Iowa Digital Library.
Dates:
1890-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Mary Vasquez Olvera papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0559
Abstract
Davenport, Iowa, woman whose parents came to Iowa from Mexico in the 1910s.
Dates:
1923-2003
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives