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Mexican Americans -- Social life and customs

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Sociedad Protección Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-696-BC
Abstract This collection contains the financial, membership and business records of the S.P.M.D.T.U., one of the U.S. Southwest's largest Hispanic-based mutual aid societies (mutualistas) of the twentieth century.
Dates: 1922-2017; Majority of material found in 1950-1990

Verso: Mexican wood vendors - burro team. Mesquite wood - dug out of ground - taking several days to acquire full load - hauled twenty miles and sold at from $1.00 to $1.25 per load. Las Cruces, N. Mex., 1900

 Item — Box 1, Photograph: 0011
Identifier: 05440011
Content Description From the Collection: Twenty photographs on card mounts of Las Cruces, 1899-1900, possibly taken by Charles Fulton Neale and/or Katharine Meadows Neale, his wife. The photographs depict scenes and people around Las Cruces, New Mexico. The backs of the photographs contain descriptive information handwritten in pencil, presumably by the Neales.
Dates: 1900

Verso: Typical Mexican dwelling. No 2 - Rear, Las Cruces, N. Mex., 1900

 Item — Box 1, Photograph: 0017
Identifier: 05440017
Content Description From the Collection: Twenty photographs on card mounts of Las Cruces, 1899-1900, possibly taken by Charles Fulton Neale and/or Katharine Meadows Neale, his wife. The photographs depict scenes and people around Las Cruces, New Mexico. The backs of the photographs contain descriptive information handwritten in pencil, presumably by the Neales.
Dates: Other: 1900