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Scene from "El Aguila"
A still of a scence from the "El Aguila" play depicting a controntation between a knife weilding man and a couple. -
Scene from "El Aguila"
A still of a scene from the "El Aguila" play depicting a mother and son. The mother is wielding a rake and tugging on her son's ear. -
Phyllis Clark Homegrown Heroes Full Interview
This interview with Phyllis Clark was conducted on May 10, 2024. Clark is the founder and CEO of the Healthy Heritage movement, a non-profit organization focused on eliminating health disparities in the African American community. In this interview, Clark shares her experience growing up in a military family, her educational career in fashion and business, and how that eventually transitioned into health advocacy work. Through the Healthy Heritage Movement, Clark shares more about programs like Broken Crayons Still Color that showcase a holistic approach to health advocacy amongst the African American community. -
Concepcion (Concha) Romero at Fairbanks Ranch, 1960
Color photograph of Concepcion (Concha) Romero standing in front of the orange groves at Fairbanks Ranch. Concepcion Romero was an active member of the Divine Savior Church and was an entrepreneur. She ran restuarants and made tamales and tortillas. Her daughter Eunice Romero (Gonzales) noted, "My mother had a restaurant right here on Colton Avenue, on Lawton and Colton. There was a gas station and then a little restaurant up on old Third Street, and then her final restaurant was on Stuart and Third Street, and they were all Romero restaurants." -
Ramon and Esther Romero
Ramon Romero, one of the founders of Divine Savior Church, sits with his granddaughter Esther Romero at 1140 Ohio Street in the 1920s. The Romero family lived on the same street for over 100 years. Another granddaughter, Ramona Romero Dalhberg wrote a letter stating, "My grandfather used to have a horse named Jack and a cart and on Sunday mornings they would hold church meetings on street corners, like Calhoun Street and Brockton and different places. Then the men got together to talk about forming a Presbyterian Church. Gavino Trevino owned property on the corner of Webster and Union, which he donated, and they drew plans for a building. The building consisted of one large room with the front door facing Webster Street. It was a very well made building with a big porch in front." -
Unidentified Civilian "Before" Photograph
This small black and white photograph is one of a series of two photograph showing the unidentified young man "before" and "after" donning military uniform for World War II. From unknown civilian to unknown soldier. -
Soldiers in Panama City, 1947
Three solders identified from left to right as "Babe," Mac," and Nello" pose at a Panama City Bar in 1947. The back reads: "Taken in Panama City, Sept 13, 1947" Nello, Mac, Me, My love (Babe). -
Soldiers, World War II
Three soldiers sitting on a rock or log near a forest. They are in military dress and are posing for the camera. -
Rosa the Riveter
Black and white photograph of an unidentified woman heading to work at Norton Airforce base during the 1940s. Her hair is short with a headband and she wears overalls. During World War II many women entered the workforce especially in the defense industry. While the common image was Rosie the Riveter, women workers were of all races and ethnicities. Due to federal rules against segregation in the defense industry, Mexican American, African American, Asian American and white women worked side by side on production lines. -
Unknown Naval Seaman
A portrait of an unidentified Mexican American naval seaman in military dress taken at a photography studio. The image is also a post card and has written on back "Daniel, Taken 3 months ago at Fresno" -
Rafael Gonzalez with daughter Melinda
Black and white image of Rafael Gonzalez sitting on the lawn with his daughter Melinda on his lap in the early 1950s. Rafael Gonzalez apprenticed as a shoemaker in Mexico before coming to the United States as a Bracero in 1942. Gonzalez dreamed of returning home and establishing a business but was delayed during the war and was among a group of Braceros stranded in San Bernardino without a contract or transportation home. Later, Gonzales met Eunice Romero while working for her father, Jacinto Romero, at Fairbanks Ranch. -
Eunice and Rafael Gonzalez with grandaughter Bianca
Color image of Eunice and Rafael Gonzalez holding Bianca, their granddaughter, at their home on Ohio Street in the 1970s. Rafael Gonzalez apprenticed as a shoemaker in Mexico before coming to the United States as a Bracero in 1942. Gonzalez dreamed of returning home and establishing a business but was delayed during the war and was among a group of Braceros stranded in San Bernardino without a contract or transportation home. Later, Gonzales met Eunice Romero while working for her father, Jacinto Romero, at Fairbanks Ranch. -
Rafael Gonzalez, 1943
Rafael Gonzalez is pictured here at Cone Camp in 1943. Gonzalez was recruited from Mexico City as part of the United States - Mexico Bracero labor program during World War II. "Coney Camp" as it was known to the local Mexican population, was a former jail and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) training center located on the banks of the Santa Ana River in East Highlands. Converted to house Mexican laborers, the facility held up to 1,500 men at a time. Despite federal mandates for reasonable living conditions, wages, and medical care many braceros like those living in Cone Camp lived in wooden barracks and sometimes in tents where the men endured severe winter weather and extreme heat in the summer. The Bracero Program officially ended in 1964. -
Eunice Romero College Graduation
Eunice Romero (Gonzales) receives a degree from the University of La Verne in 1978. After raising a family, working as a laborer, and serving as a classroom aid in Redlands schools, Gonzales returned to college and earned a teaching credential. Years after retiring from the San Bernardino Unified School District, she recalled, "I didn't graduate from high school and well, I was like about 50 years old when a program was started through La Verne Colleges for bilingual educators, and I was lucky enough to know both languages fluently. So, I was able to participate in the program, which was - the acronym was SABER - and then I finished my college and I went into teaching." -
Roque Children
Black and white photograph of Ronald, Robert, Vicki, Felix, and Nelda Roque in 1955. The back of the photograph lists their ages: Ronald, age 10; Robert. age 8; Vicki, age 5; Felix, age 9 and Nelda, age 14. -
Amelia (Sadie) Cordero
"Amelia (Sadie) Cordero is shown here in front of the family home at 305 High Street in the early 1930s." (Vasquez and Carpio, 25) Amelia wears a drop waist dress with her hair pulled back in finger waves. -
Leo Cordero
Leo Cordero posing with a 1927 car outside his home on High Street. Like many working class people he benefited from the improved roads and access to motorized vehicles. "He and his family would travel to job sites across California." (Vasquez and Carpio, 43) -
Ernest "Jimmy" Medina Interview
Ernest "Jimmy" Medina discusses his life growing up in the Inland Empire. Additionally, he discussed his father's involvement in the bracero program and the citrus industry. -
Manuel Jacques checking irrigation pipes
Mary Garcia's father, Manuel Jacques, stands in a trench in the orange groves as he check the concrete pipes which brought water to the orange groves. Concrete conduit, standpipes, and other products were essential to the citrus industry in the days before plastic pipes. -
Concha Yglesias
Black and white photograph of Concha Yglesias holding a baby and standing in front of her home on Pearl Avenue near what is now the 6th Street freeway on-ramp. Many homes along Pearl Avenue, such as those depicted in this image from the 1940s, were destroyed to create the new road. -
Hay Baler and Horse Team in the Yucaipa Area
Black and white image of a hay-baling machine owned by Bob Garcia's grandfather. Garcia remembered, "He [My gandfather] would take it all over the place, Yucaipa, Moreno Valley, and rent it to folks." In the image, the machine is being led by many horses and five men sit atop the machine as it works. -
Roque Family on Steps
Black and white image of three members of the Roque family, likely two sisters and their brother in the center, pose on the steps of a house. The man in the center wears a military uniform. -
Roque Family Member in Military Dress
Color portrait of a member of the Roque family in military uniform. -
Departing for Military Service, 1943
Pictured from left to right, Joe Guerrero, Lalo Ramirez, Peter Ruiz, Tony Torres, Leonard Torres, Marion Torres, and Frank Coyazo depart from the Pacific Electric Depot in 1943 for duty during World War II."" (Vasquez and Carpio, 52) They were among many young Mexican and Mexican American boys who served during World War II. -
Sadie Cordero and Children Picking Grapes
Black and white photograph of Sadie Cordero and her three children, a daughter and two sons, picking grapes in Salinas, California. Some Mexican American families in California would go pick various California produce in the Summer and Fall. Some picked apricots in Hemet, walnuts in Concord, stone fruit in Fairfield, and other crops. For many, following the crops was a matter of survival in the absense of local, full-time, year-round work Families would spend summers and the early fall months harvesting crops throughout California and other parts of the West.