Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection; image no. SCHC6.
Creator
Horton, Tad.
Date
[1950]
Summary
Josephine Cárdenas Lucero, a mail carrier, leans our of her truck window to put a letter in a mailbox in San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. She wears glasses. The metal mailbox is on an piece of wood.
Description
1 photographic print ; 35 x 28 cm. (14 x 11 in.)
Is Part Of
Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection.;
Item Owned By
Auraria Library
Subject
Mexican Americans--1950-1960.; Hispanic Americans--1950-1960.; San Luis (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Lucero, Josephine Cárdenas--Pictorial works.; Mexican Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Hispanic Americans--Colorado--Pictorial works.; Women--Colorado--San Luis--Pictorial works.; Letter carriers--Colorado--San Luis--Pictorial works.; San Luis (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
Format-Medium
Photograph
Source
Source: loan, San Luis Cultural Center, 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 derived from inventory.; From inventory: "Josephine Cárdenas Lucero delivers mail in rural, southern Colorado. She is the daughter of José Cárdenas and Victoria Payne. Her first husband was Meliton Maxwell. She later married Amado Lucero of Blanca, CO. She was a store owner and mail carrier in San Luis, CO Photo Description Source: Maria C. Martinez, genealogist."; Digitization sponsored by the Library Services and Technology Act and the Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library.