Activities

Pottery Worker Melisendro Rael, San Antonio School, 1950s
Courtesy of David Salazar

East Mountain Farm Scene, 1950s Courtesy of photographer David Salazar

Acequia area on Perea land.
Courtesy of Dorela Perea

Acequia Cleaning, San Antonito. Left: Ramon Garcia; Right: Leandro Garcia (brothers-in-law) Courtesy of Dorela Perea

Cleaning Beans
Olympio and Antonia Candelaria, with son Ernest Candelaria in the middle. Ernest’s mother and father are cleaning the beans they raised. The beans were picked up from the tub with a bucket and thrown into the air so that wind could remove dirt and seed covers from them.
Courtesy of Lucy Candelaria

Wagon traveling through Tijeras Canyon in 1885 at the base of a hill that is now behind the Carnuel Land Grant Hall. [Some people think they may be carrying wheat]
Courtesy UNM Center for Southwest Research 000-083 131

Sheriff’s Deputy Tom Herrera with Military Police, Bartola Baca, 1951
Tom Herrera, between two military policemen, after breaking up a fight in a Bartola Baca bar. (Bernie’s Lounge later called Reno & Mary’s)
Courtesy of Tom Herrera

Making Adobes, San Antonito, 1957 or 1958 Leandro Garcia, standing with the shovel, was making the adobes. Assisted by friends, he made about 300 a day for sale.
Courtesy of Dorela Perea

Open Well, 1950s
Courtesy of photographer David Salazar

Corina Gonzales Making Chicos, Primera Agua, October 1960
Corina Gonzales with her son Tony on the left and Billy on the right, outside of their home, cooking “chicos” in the outdoor horno. The photo was taken near Primera Agua Road. Making chicos was a way to preserve corn for family meals. Sweet corn, left on the cob, was steamed and then roasted in the outdoor oven. Finally, the hard, dry kernels were removed from the cob and stored. Chicos were boiled with ham hocks or pork for flavor, or with beans.
Photo by Melba Scott, Courtesy of Irene Gonzales Aragon

Midwives, San Antonio area (Left to right) Mauricia Garcia Gonzales, Juanita Carpenter, Tonita Gonzales de Sanchez, and Jesusita Carabajal de Zamora, Mauricia was Dulcinea Sanchez’s grandmother; Jesusita was Adelia Garcia’s grandmother, Tonita was Dulcinea’s grandfather’s sister. Courtesy of Dulcinea Sanchez

Luis Gonzales bringing home the wood, Primera Agua, 1957 Luis Gonzales is bringing the load of wood, in a horse-drawn wagon, for the family’s wood stoves. A storage shed is on the right, and the outhouse is on the left. The photo was taken off of Primera Agua Road, next to Camino de Santo Niño Road. Photo by Molly Simballa, Courtesy of Irene Gonzales Aragon

Carlos Campo and Store /Saloon, San Antonio about 1913
The wall at the right was part of a dance hall, which was torn down in the mid-1940s. Carlos Campo was born in Naples, Italy, and came to San Antonio in 1887. By the 1890s he had built a store, saloon, and dancehall to adjoin his home. He raised a flourishing orchard and vineyard. Campo also mined a gypsum deposit in the vicinity of Cañoncito, quarried limestone, and operated several lime kilns in the Tijeras area. He died in 1924. The people in the photo as identified by Mary Campo Selva are from left to right Jesus Griego, Rafael Larranaga, Pablo Gonzales, Tomas Sanchez, Leandro Garcia, Caludio Sanchez and on the horse is Manuel Gonzales.
Courtesy of Dulcinea Sanchez

Bookmobile, Albuquerque Public Library. Courtesy of photographer David Salazar

Bead work from around neckline on dress. Dress from 1800s.
This beadwork was given to Florinda Crist from Delfinia Garcia. In 1970 Florinda had been working for the state. They sent her to two homes to visit two elderly women in the mountains a couple of days a week. She did this for a couple of months while her husband was overseas. At this time Delfinia was 93 or 94 years old. The beads were from a dress belonging to her mother. The beads are of some kind of glass; they don’t melt or burn. Delfinia was Modesto Garcia’s mother. Her house is the old rock house still standing behind DMV in Tijeras.
Courtesy of Florinda Crist