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Family in Car

Description: Copy negative of a man seated in the driver's seat of an automobile and a woman and young boy standing next to the car. The woman is wearing a dress and the boy is wearing a blazer.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Mexican Revival

Description: Copy negative of a group of Mexican-Americans at a revival. The group includes "Cookie" Rojas, his wife Mrs. Rojas and their baby. Standing with them is another man, three women in dresses, and four children. In the background is a tent.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Soldiers with Wounded Bandits

Description: Copy negative of wounded Mexican bandits at Columbus, New Mexico in 1916. There are at least four wounded men lying under blankets on cots in the foreground. In the background are at least ten soldiers in military uniforms and tents. Written in the bottom left-hand corner of the image is, "W. H. Horne Co., Copyrighted El Past, Tex." Written across the bottom of the image is, "Wounded Bandits at Columbus, N. M."
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Soldiers with Wounded Bandits

Description: Copy negative of wounded Mexican bandits at Columbus, New Mexico in 1916. There are at least four wounded men lying under blankets on cots in the foreground. In the background are at least ten soldiers in military uniforms and tents. Written in the bottom left-hand corner of the image is, "W. H. Horne Co., Copyrighted El Past, Tex." Written across the bottom of the image is, "Wounded Bandits at Columbus, N. M."
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Mexican Americans: The Invisible Minority in the Abilene Area

Description: An essay chronicling research pertaining to the history of early Abilene (TX) Mexican Americans. Notable themes include the education of Hispanics and the Catholic Church and Mexican Americans. Also included are lists of burials at the Abilene Cemetery (1880-1919), Callahan County Birth Records before 1900, Taylor County Birth Records, 1885-1920, Callahan County Marriages, 190-1920, and Abilene Marriage Licenses, 1886-1898. There is also an interview with Fernando "Fred" Santibanez, a descenda… more
Date: 2000/2010
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Rev Benjamin Rodarte]

Description: A photocopy of a photograph of Rev. Benjamin Rodarte. On the reverse of the photo was written, "A Mexican exiled priest took charge of the Mexican work as assistant to Fr. Henry Knufer in Aug. 1928. Died Dec. 22, 1929, in Abilene Baptist Sanitarium in consequence of an operation for gall stones."
Date: 1928/1929
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Sketch of St. Francis Mission Mexican Combination School in Abilene, Texas]

Description: A sketch of the first St. Francis Mission Mexican Combination Church and School and Sisters House in Abilene (TX), built by Rev. R. A. Gerken, now Archbishop of Santa Fe, NM. The house was occupied for 18 months by Mexican Sisters of the Order of Maria Guadalpupe, exiled from Mexico during the Caranza Revolution. One of the Sisters, nursing the sick during the Flu, died here and is buried here.
Date: unknown
Partner: The Grace Museum

Men on Horseback

Description: Copy negative of two pictures in Mexico. The picture on the left is of a Mexican man standing by a small saddled horse with two more people and a horse in the background in an area with brush and trees. The picture on the right is of a Mexican man on a mule shooting a rifle in a fenced area with trees.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Workers in Rock Quarry; Oil Field Equipment

Description: Copy negative of two pictures at a rock quarry in Mexico. The picture on the left is of a group of Mexican men working at the bottom of the quarry with a machine in the background. The picture on the right is of the men and machine from a different view. The machine has cables running to it and "Marion Shovel Model..." and "Mexico City" painted on the side
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

House Exterior

Description: Copy negative of two images. The top photograph shows railroad tracks running through Palo Blanco, Mexico. Written across the bottom of the photograph is, "La Brecha, Palo Blano." The bottom photograph shows a large house with a wrap-around porch. In the foreground are buggies and the word, "Soledad".
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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