Photo Gallery >> Chapter 5: San Diego's Mexican Community, 1850 - 1910

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Jose Antonia Altamirano, 1870s.

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Doña Guadalupe Smith and Family, 1870s.

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Arcadia Baker and Dolores Ward, c. 1905

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Reginaldo and Jesucita Silvas October.

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Domingo and Dorlores Silvas and family, 1908.

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Silvas family at Del Mar Rancho.

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A photograph of Doña Felipa Osuna de Marron does not seem to exist. She provides a vivid account of the Mexican War period of the late 1840s and the difficulty she and her family had being loyal to Mexican California. The assembled family in this photograph, taken in 1904 after they left the ancestral rancho, are her descendants, the family of Julio Osuna.

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Group in front of the American Hotel in Old Town, c.1875.

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Indians in attendance at the Cabrillo Celebration, 1892.

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Indian War dance at Cabrillo celebration, c.1892.

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Paisanos : Costume de la Haute Californie and Dame de Monterey. (By an unidentified artist)

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Rancherio, Logan Avenue, near 22nd Street. Date unknown, about 1879.

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San Diego Mission. Indian children with nuns.

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Mesa Grande Indian, c.1906.