Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection; image no. 2-500x21.
Contributor
Gonzáles, Karen Trujillo,
Date
[1954?]
Summary
View of a Good Americans Organization (G.A.O.) banquet probably in Denver, Colorado. Well dressed men and women sit at banquet tables. There is a head table with men and women and a priest at the front of the room. An American flag is beside the head table and a banner hangs on the wall. Lettering on the banner reads: "Good Americans Organization, Dedicated to the Principles of American Democracy." "Org. ? 1954." An inverted triangle on the banner has the letters: "CO GAO."
Description
1 photographic print ; 20 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Is Part Of
Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection.;
Item Owned By
Auraria Library
Type of Material
Black-and-white prints.; Snapshots.; Group portraits.; Photographic prints.; Imaged.; Image
Subject
Good Amiercans Organization--People--1950-1960.; Hispanic Americans--1950-1960.; Denver (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Banquets.; Good Americans Organization--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Dinners and dining--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Denver (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
Format-Medium
Photograph
Source
Source: loan, Karen Trujillo Gonzáles, 2011.
Rights Contact Information
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Content derived from inventory prepared by Dana EchoHawk.; Title from inventory.; From inventory: "Photo shows an event of the Good Americans Organization founded by Paco Sanchez. Spanish was spoken during these meetings and events. Some in attendance were former New Mexico State Senator from the 1930s, Jose Urbano Lucero and his wife Josefita, seated at the 2nd table from the left, 3rd couple from the wall facing the camera. The first couple by the wall at that same table are identified as Ray Lucero and his wife Betty. Feloniz Gonzales and her husband George are seated next to Ray and Betty. Behind George at the next table, the first man is Salomon Trujillo and his wife Clorinda. Paco Sanchez is on the left of the hanging sign talking to the man in front of the sign."; Digitization sponsored by the Library Services and Technology Act and the Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library.
