Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection; image no. Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy, HopeYost-2333.
Summary
View of a hand-woven Rio Grande style blanket made at a WPA sponsored weaving project in San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. Shows a multi colored striped blanket and two chain rug beaters with wooden handles.
Date
[between 1940 and 1950?]
Notes
Content derived from inventory prepared by Dana EchoHawk.; From inventory: "Rug and Blanket beater made during the Depression when President Roosevelt founded the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935. Under the WPA , a weaving project started in 1935 in San Luis, Colorado where few weavers still continued the old traditions. María Salomé Córdova was a consultant on the project. G. Madden Jones and Gladys Robinson of Fort Garland started and ran the project which ended in 1940." (Courtesy of Hispanic Pioneers in Colorado and New Mexico).; Scan of a color photograph from: Hispanic pioneers in Colorado and New Mexico / Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy, 2006. Source: Hope Gallegos Yost.; Scanned image from loaned collection.; Source: loan, Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy, 2010.; Title derived from inventory.; Digitization sponsored by the Library Services and Technology Act and the Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library.
Is Part Of
Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection.; WPA Photos
