Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection; image no. Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy, DeniseLovato704.
Summary
View of a railroad work crew in New Mexico. A group of men and teenage boys stand with tools that include crowbars. The men are dressed for cold weather and wear hats, caps, suits, overcoats and jackets. Farmers from southern Colorado would travel to New Mexico to work for railroad companies in the off season.
Date
1905
Notes
Content derived from inventory prepared by Dana EchoHawk.; From inventory: "Many Hispano men supplemented their farm income by working for railroad companies. They laid track by hand, leveled the ground with shovels and escrepas (scrapers) pulled by a team of horses. A section gang was responsible for laying track once the land was surveyed and leveled by scrapers." (Hispanic Pioneers in Colorado and New Mexico, Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy, p. 226).; Scan of photograph from: Hispanic pioneers in Colorado and New Mexico / Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy, 2006. Source: Denise Lovato.; Scanned image from loaned collection.; Title from inventory.; Digitization sponsored by the Library Services and Technology Act and the Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library.; R7001520883
Is Part Of
Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection.;
Subject
Hispanic Americans--1900-1910.; Railroad construction workers.; Teenagers.; Hispanic Americans--New Mexico--Pictorial works.; Railroad construction workers--New Mexico--Pictorial works.; Teenagers--New Mexico--Pictorial works.
Source
loan; Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy; 2010.
Rights
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
No
Type of Material
Digital images.; Group portraits.; Digital images.; Group portraits.
Contributors
Lovato, Denise,; Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy, lender.
