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Santiago E. Arquello, prominent in political, military and social life, acquired the property of Mission San Diego de Acala from the Mexican government.

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General Andres Pico, 1846.

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Ruin of a Mexican era adobe in the back country.

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Henry Delano Fitch. He was the son of Beriah Fitch and Sarah Delano. He was married to Maria (Josefa) Antonia Natalia Carrillo.

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Indian women using a mortero.

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This photograph of Doña Machado de Ridington, standing amid the cactus at the outskirts of Old Town, San Diego, ca. 1893, evokes the feelings of insecurity and insolation described in the testimony of Mexican women threatened by the Americanization of California.

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Señorita

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Vaquero

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Rancho Penascitos reconstructed. One of the first rancho houses in San Diego County.

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Pio Pico family: Marianita Alvarado (niece), Señora Pico, Pio Pico, Trinidad Ortega (niece), c.1850.

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San Diego in 1848

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Californios on horseback

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Vaquero on Horseback

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Californio rancheros

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Vaqueros

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Don Juan Bandini and daughter Margarita, 1851.

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