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Color portrait of a member of the Roque family in military uniform.
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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.
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"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.
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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)
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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.
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Black and white fourth-grade class photograph of Lincoln school in Redlands, California taken in 1935. This was the classroom of Nellie Hernandez. In the photograph Nellie has labeled some students.
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"Students cross Fern Street in front of Redland High School in the 1940s." (Vasquez and Carpio, 50)
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Black and white photograph of a member of the Roque family posing in uniform during World War II under a tree.
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Margaret Roque Castro pictured with her older sister, Guadalupe. The Roque family lived in the neighborhood known as "Barrio Judeo". Margaret Roque Castro described the neighborhood: "I was born in a little area right there on Herald Street, they used to call it El Barrio Judeo, because it belonged to some Jewish people. There were several houses, little old houses, but they were, you know, liveable. Then my parents bought that house on Herald Street, 1113 Herald Street. You now, the same street, but farther down." (Vasquez and Carpio, 22)
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Aerial view of the Redlands Valley showing the 1-10 freeway, the city of Redlands and the San Bernardino Mountains including Mount San Gorgonio. Most likely taken in the 1960s.
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Color photograph of the Lupe Sanchez Band with Blas Coyazo on guitar; Hemet Califorina, New Year's Eve 1964. Blas Coyazo said: "I play the bass guitar and the electric guitar and the electric guitar so for the last fifty years also, or more, out of the eighty-three years that I have, I've been playing with bands in the Inland Empire here. San Bernardino, Colton, Riverside, Hemet, Palm Springs, even Indio and Coachella, Perris, Pomona, Fontana, Bloomington, Corona...Saturday nights I used to go out mostly every week and earn perhaps twenty, twenty-five dollars extra...So I made that as a side work, you know, because I'd -- well, I learned how to play the guitar way back in 1927, '28."
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A photograph of a man looking at a Mexican migration map, designed by mapmaker Sean Redar.
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Display of the May 2000, Visions and Versions exhibition at the A.K. Smiley Public Library. Inside the case is citrus picking equipment including a helmet, gloves, clippers and bag.
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Black and white photograph of three generations of Ramon Romero's family fathered at Fairbanks Ranch in 1944 for Thanksgiving. The photograph includes his granddaughter Ramona and her Swedish husband, Harris "Harry" Dalhberg (standing on the far left). "The ranch, comanaged by Dalhberg and Ramona's father, Jacinto "Joe" Romero (Second row, third from right, holding orange), extended along Highway 99 from California Street in Redlands to Mountain View Avenue in Loma Linda. Eunice Romero (Gonzales) (second row, center, in dark shirt) reminisced about ranch life: 'They had groves of oranges, groves of grapefruit. And they had lemon trees. The Castillos lived on one ranch, the Browmans lived on one ranch, the Martinezes lived on another ranch. So then the Romeros lived on another ranch, the Dahlbergs, the Coyazos lived on Fairbanks Ranch. Those were people that socialized and worked together.'" (Vasquez and Carpio, 45)
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Blas Coyazo posing with the rest of the Military Police Unit at the Columbia Army Base in South Carolina where he was stationed in 1944 during World War II. "After experiencing segregation at home, from barbershops to the local roller rink, Coyazo was amazed to find himself in an all-white unit with access to facilities far superior to his black comrades, who were housed at and fought in segregated units. The following letter was sent on January 1, 1945 to "Pelanchos" and Charlie: 'Here I am with the boys from the 2nd Relief. I have white gloves, white leggings an M.P. band and a holster with my lassito around my shoulder, only it can't be seen, it's too bad. But anyway here I am, hope you can find me. With all my love, Blas.'" (Vasquez and Carpio, 35)
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Manuel "Manny" Villegas pictured with his nephew Donald Montgomery, a sailor during World War II. Both men graduated from the University of Redlands and taught in Redlands schools.
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This is one page of a large scrapbook maintained by Consuela Coyazo. The book contains over 100 images from candid scenes of every day life in the barrio to penny arcade booth photographs, to formal portraits.
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This is one page of a large scrapbook maintained by Consuela Coyazo. The book contains over 100 images from candid scenes of every day life in the barrio to penny arcade booth photographs, to formal portraits. One identified image is of Simona "Sammy" Castillo (third row down, far right) with a bow in her hair. Sammy was born in East Highland and spent most of her career at St. Bernardine's Hospital as a surgical registered nurse.
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This is one page of a large scrapbook maintained by Consuela Coyazo. The book contains over 100 images from candid scenes of every day life in the barrio to penny arcade booth photographs, to formal portraits.
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This is one page of a large scrapbook maintained by Consuela Coyazo. The book contains over 100 images from candid scenes of everyday life in the barrio to penny arcade booth photographs, to formal portraits.
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Small penny arcade image of a young girl wearing a large brimmed sombrero. This photograph is one of many photographs part of a large scrapbook maintained by Consuela Coyazo.The book contains over 100 images from candid scenes of every day life in the barrio to penny arcade booth photographs, to formal portraits.
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This small black and white photograph is one of a series of two photograph showing the unidentified young man "after" and "after" donning military uniform for World War II. From unknown civilian to unknown soldier.
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This small black and white photograph is one of a series of two photograph showing the unidentified young man "after" and "after" donning military uniform for World War II. From unknown civilian to unknown soldier.
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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.
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This unidentified man stands in front of a common symbol for the era, the segregated barbershop. For decades, segregation in shops and services was common in Redlands. Manasses Soto recalls: "When I'd go downtown to get a haircut I couldn't get a haircut because the signs said, 'For Whites Only' and that kind of disturbed me because I was a student going to school and I couldn't see it in school with the students too much, but the adults seemed to push it on us. The only person that would take me to give me a hiarcut was Abe. We used to call him Abe Lincoln. He had whiskers and he had a barbershop downtown, and he used to go every year when they had the Lincoln Memorial Parade and they had a celebration for Lincoln at the Bowl, he would go and give a speech and that was very enjoyable to see the guy that gave me the haircuts."