Photograph of Sanchez Children
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
notes: label: Description
content: Pictured are Abundio and Concepción “Concha” Sanchez’s children, Refugio, Soledad, Guadalupe, Arnulfo, and Maria, around 1919. They opened a grocery store, <i>The Mexican Mercantile</i> in Fillmore, California about 1921.
label: Description
content: Concha Sanchez and her family followed the path of many Mexican immigrants who turned their traditional foodways into a staple of community life. Concha and Abundio Sanchez migrated from Mexico in 1912 at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. Through the 1920s, they worked in Kansas, in Texas, and in the produce fields of California, eventually opening a grocery store. When that failed in the Great Depression, Concha supported her family by creating a tortilleria, making and selling tortillas in her Ventura County neighborhood. Instead of making them by hand, as Mexican women had done for centuries, she used the new electric and gas-fired equipment bought by her son to produce tortillas and tamales for sale.
place: label: place made
content: United States: California
topic: label: Subject
content: Latino
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000
label: Exhibition
content: Artifact Walls
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anna Bermudez
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0236.05
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0236.05
label: accession number
content: 2006.0236
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photo
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.7 cm x 12.8 cm; 6 15/16 in x 5 1/16 in