Hispanic Heritage Month

This month we look back on the long history of Latinos in this country and, particularly, their 500 year history in Colorado.

Studio portrait of Casimiro Barela, Colorado state senator for over 37 years. He poses in a suit with a morning coat and wears a top hat, a tie and stick pin and holds a walking cane with a decorated metal top. He has gray hair and a full, trimmed mustache.
Two workers stand near a row of coke ovens in the coal camp of El Moro (Las Animas County), Colorado. A man wearing overalls holds a rake. The other man holds a pole that extends into the opening of an oven. The men may be Italian or Hispanic. Wheelbarrows, ladders, and other tools are in the distance.
Studio portrait of possibly the Horea Baskes (Vasquez) family (Hispanic). The man wears a dark wool suit, a wide brimmed hat, and sits in an upholstered chair. His wife stands at his side. She wears a two-piece dark colored dress with a fitted bodice that buttons up the front. Her hair is pulled to a bun on the top of her head. A young girl wears a dark colored wool bodice with a light colored print cotton skirt and gloves. Another girl wears a gray wool dress with a ruffle.
View of adobe houses in a Mexican settlement near Walsenburg (Huerfano County), Colorado. Shows a man by a horse, beehive ovens (hornos), a wooden fence, a wagon with a barrel on it and a cedar tree.