Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection; image no. Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy, LorenzoTrujillo-3603.
Summary
Studio portrait of the Trujillo brothers from Mora County, New Mexico, and Las Animas County, Colorado. They are identified as: bottom row, left to right: Celedón Trujillo, Francisco Trujillo, Leopoldo Trujillo, and in the back, Benigno Trujillo. They all wear jackets and have mustaches. Leopoldo was a miner at the Frederick Mine in Valdez (Las Animas County), Colorado.
Date
[between 1910 and 1920?]
Notes
Content derived from inventory prepared by Dana EchoHawk.; From inventory: "The Trujillo brothers Benigno, Celedón, Francisco and Leopoldo grew up during the Depression. Leopoldo was a miner at the Frederick Mine in Valdez, Las Animas Country, Colorado, owned by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. He worked as a switchman, a mulero handling the mules-drawn cars, a traquelero laying track, and a timbero placing timber to support the mine. He died at age 39 in a mine accident on July 29, 1929." (Hispanic pioneers in Colorado and New Mexico / Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy).; Scan of a photograph from: Hispanic pioneers in Colorado and New Mexico / Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy, 2006. Source: Lorenzo Trujillo.; Scanned image from loaned collection.; Source: loan, Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy, 2010.; Title derived from inventory.; Digitization sponsored by the Library Services and Technology Act and the Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library.
