"Our Gang" cast members at the Strand Theatre. From left, Darla Hood, Ross Swickard, Donald Swickard and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, at a safety plaque signing in 1942. Safety plaque signings were public relations events and the plaques were later...
A 1955 class photo of Margaret Gloria Zozaya (married name Pacheco) from Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. She is the photo donor's aunt (married Manuel Pacheco, the photo donor's uncle) and lived on Dozier Street in the Maravilla area of...
A birthday party at the Rivera house (photo donor's mother) on San Carlos St. in the Belvedere area of East Los Angeles. There are 13 kids in the picture but some of their faces are not shown. The first four girls left to right are: Evangelina...
A black and white portrait of Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin's (photo donor) First Holy Communion at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church (on Hammel Street). Looking straight at the camera with a smile, she is wearing a collar dress, a long lace...
A boat themed professional photo portrait of Sotera Pacheco (left and is the photo donor's grandmother) with two unidentified friends posing behind a boat rail prop that has a lifesaver ring that reads ""S.S. Catalina."" The capitalized N in...
A brown paper bag puppet used in "Que Sura la Basura," a production by Teatro de los Niños. They were the first Chicano theater group in the United States with children performers. This was performed at Hollenbeck Park in Boyle Heights. This paper...
A class photo of 32 students, possibly of 2nd graders from room 6 at Hammel Street Elementary School (later Esteban E. Torres High School). An 8 year old Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin (photo donor) is wearing two braids and a polka dot dress with...
A class photo of Abraham Lincoln High School taken in front of a brick building in the late 1920s in Lincoln Heights. Elias Rodriguez Aparicio (photo donor's father) was one of very few Mexicans who attended this school. He is in the back row, 4th...
A crew of 6 workers for the Southern California Gas Company posing behind a wooden sign that reads: "DANGER SO. CAL. GAS CO." Two of the men are in worker's overalls and caps and the other four are in regular clothes. Their job was installing...
A Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) event by Teatro de los Niños, the first Chicano theater group in the United States with children performers are perfoming in "Las Albondigas," a Mexican folk tale of the family. This show was held at Self-Help...
A Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) event by Teatro de los Niños, the first Chicano theater group in the United States with children performers are perfoming in "Las Albondigas," a Mexican folk tale of the family. This show was held at Self-Help...
A Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) event by Teatro de los Niños, the first Chicano theater group in the United States with children performers are perfoming in "Las Albondigas," a Mexican folk tale of the family. This show was held at Self-Help...
A east side view of Swickard's Strand Theatre with it's original faded paint signage on the upper side of the building. In the foreground are piled wood and loose doors in storage. East Los Angeles, 1973.
A female adult, a young girl, and two male adults are standing in the Molina's family backyard next to the clothesline on Bonnie Beach Place. Pictured from left: Sailor Pete (wearing a newsboy hat), Mary Molina (donor's mother), Celia Cantu Molina...
A formal portrait of Emily Aparicio (photo donor's aunt), possibly hand tinted in brown hues for the clothes and lips, pink for the face and green for the eyes. She is wearing a knit blouse under a blazer and has a bow on top of her hair. The photo...
A formal portrait of Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin (photo donor). She is wearing an eyelet embroidered pinafore over a dress. She has her hair in bob style, with very short bangs. Photo taken the late 1940s in City Terrace, an area of East Los...
A funeral for infant Gomez (first name unknown) buried at Calvary Cemetery in 1942. The five chosen pallbearer girls were the sisters of Ofelia Esparza (photo donor), cousins and a neighbor. They are all dressed in white dresses and three of them...
A graduation photo portrait of US Marine Albert Aviles (photo donor's brother) taken at Camp Pendleton. This is a black and white photograph with hand tinting.
A group photo of 9 couples at the Club de Madres de Santa Maria Center (C.Y.O., Catholic Youth Organization) Winter Dance in the Belvedere area of East Los Angeles. Alberto Aviles (photo donor's father) is in the back row, 3rd from left and Lupe...
A photo clipping from the Belvedere Citizen newspaer of Lupe Aviles (photo donor's mother and previous married name Rivera) being honored as Mother and Queen of the Year 1976 by Club Ignacio Obregon. The event was held at the Santa Maria Center...
