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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."
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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).
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Three soldiers sitting on a rock or log near a forest. They are in military dress and are posing for the camera.
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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.
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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"
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"The Guzman family home was located on Stuart Street (515) in Redlands. The house was near the family's Blacksmith shop owned by Carlos' father Epimenio. Connie Guzman McFarland recalled, 'My grandmother [Jesusita] was born in Magdalena, Mexico. That's where they have the coffin of San Francisco Javier .... When she came over, she was a little girl, she brought a sapling of a tree. And that tree, they planted it in front of their house. I think I have the picture of that. And that's why my mom and dad had this type of tree. In fact, those trees are planted, would you believe, at what they call the Catholic Hill at Hillside Cemetary.'" (Vasquez and Carpio, 21)
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The Guzman family home was located on Stuart Street (515) in Redlands. The house was near the family's Blacksmith shop owned by Carlos' father Epimenio. Connie Guzman McFarland recalled, "My grandmother [Jesusita] was born in Magdalena, Mexico. That's where they have the coffin of San Francisco Javier... When she came over, she was a little girl, she brought a sapling of a tree. And that tree, they planted it in front of their house. I think I have the picture of that. And that's why my mom and dad had this type of tree. In fact, those trees are planted, would you believe, at what they call the Catholic Hill at Hillside Cemetary."
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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.
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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.