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Marta and Pedro Ortiz Family Papers
Ortiz family photographs

Ortiz family photographs

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Collection Number: MS-01198
Collection Name: Marta and Pedro Ortiz Family Papers
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Ortiz and Nieto families stand in front of Ozaki migrant dwelling in Logandale, Nevada. Paulita Ortiz, Maria Esther Ortiz, Victoria Nieto Alvarez (adult), Nieto Child, Rosa Child (identified from left to right, back to front): photograph, approximately 1955 to 1959
Nieto family with friends at a gathering in an unknown location. Jesusa Nieto Pena, unidentified individual, unidentified individual, Victoria Nieto Alvarez, Lilia Nieto (identified from left to right, back to front): photograph, approximately 1950 to 1959
Ortiz children at a family picnic in Moapa Valley, Nevada. Juanita Ortiz Marcial, Ernesto Ortiz, Aurelio Ortiz, Pedro Jr. Ortiz, Cenovio Ortiz, Paula Ortiz (identified from left to right): photograph, 1960
Nieto women and children together, likely in Moapa Valley, Nevada. Jesusa Nieto Pena, Victoria Nieto Alvarez, unidentified woman and child (identified from left to right): photograph, approximately 1955
Ortiz and Nieto family breaking a pinata at an Easter egg hunt. Pedro Ortiz, Daniel Nieto, Cenovio Ortiz, Jose Luis Jr. Ortiz (identified left to right): photograph, 1958
Ortiz, Nieto, Estrada, and Villarreal children at a children's birthday party in Moapa Valley, Nevada. Unidentified individual, Johnny Estrada, unidentified individual, Rosa Nieto, Pedro Ortiz Jr., Ernesto Ortiz, unidentified individual, Manuel Villarreal (identified from left to right, back to front): photograph, 1962
Ortiz and Nieto family children at a picnic in unknown location. Daniel Nieto, Luis Nieto Jr., Aurelio Ortiz, Ernesto Ortiz (identified left to right): photograph, approximately 1950 to 1955
Ernest Ortiz stands alone with two trucks partially visible, unknown location: photograph, approximately 1950 to 1955
Ernesto and Francisco Ortiz flexing their muscles towards one another (identified left to right): photograph, 1962 June
Unknown Ortiz family member and unknown Nieto family member standing behind a pinata at a party: photograph, 1962 May
Ortiz and Nieto families attend a dance at "Karl Marshall's place", Overton, Nevada. Victoria Nieto Alvarez, Jesusa Acosta Nieto, Paulita Ortiz (identified from left to right): photograph, approximately 1955 to 1959
Ortiz and Nieto children in front of the Ozaki migrant dwellings in Logandale, Nevada. 4th row: Luis Nieto Jr., Daniel Nieto; 3rd row: Pedro Ortiz Jr., Aurelio Ortiz, Cenovio Ortiz, Ernesto Ortiz; 2nd row: Paulita Ortiz, Maria Easter Ortiz; 1st row: unidentified individuals: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1965
Ortiz and Nieto children sit on bicycles and adults stand in front of a car holding balloons (likely Christmas). Luis Nieto Sr., Victoria Nieto Alvarez, Pedro Ortiz Jr., Ernesto Ortiz, Aurelio Ortiz, and three unidentified children (identified from left to right): photograph, approximately 1950 to 1955
Jose Luis Ortiz sits on a blanket next to a birthday cake, Moapa Valley, Nevada: photograph, 1960 July
Aurelio Ortiz (infant) sits in a booster seat attached to a car with an unidentified child in the background: photograph, 1950
Ortiz family children sit in grass next to an irrigation ditch somewhere in Utah. Aurelio Ortiz, Paulita Ortiz, Pedro Ortiz Jr., Ernesto Ortiz, Cenovio Ortiz (identified from left to right): photograph, approximately 1950 to 1959
Ortiz and Nieto family children sit in the grass at an outdoor picnic in Nevada or Arizona. Daniel Nieto, Luis Nieto Jr., Aurelio Ortiz, Ernesto Ortiz, Pedro Ortiz (identified from left to right): photograph, approximately 1950 to 1955
Luis Nieto Jr. stands in front of movie posters at the Notrevo Theatre in Overton, Nevada: photograph, 1953
Ernesto Ortiz and Aurelio Ortiz stand together outside an unknown migrant dwelling: photograph, approximately 1950 to 1955
Jose Luis Ortiz pushes a stroller outside a home, likely Pahrump or Moapa, Nevada: photograph, 1960
Juanita Ortiz Marcial and Paulita Ortiz, dressed in Easter clothing, sit outdoors on a wooden bench in Nevada: photograph, approximately 1952 to 1958
Members of the Ortiz and Nieto families sit on rocks holding Easter baskets in Valley of Fire, Nevada. 3rd row: unidentified adult; 2nd row: Luis Nieto Jr., Aurelio Ortiz, Ernesto Ortiz, Pedro Ortiz Jr., Cenovio Ortiz; 1st row: Rosa Nieto Juanita Marcial Ortiz, Paulita Ortiz (identified from left to right): photograph, 1958
Marta Nieto Ortiz holds a basket full of eggs during an Easter egg hunt in Valley of Fire, Nevada: photograph, 1958
Pedro Ortiz Jr. siting in grass with fields and old equipment in the background, likely in Arizona: photograph, 1952
Ortiz family children pose outside next to a fence with migrant dwellings visible in the background. Paulita Ortiz, Juanita Ortiz Marcial, Cenovio Ortiz, Pedro Ortiz Jr. (identified from left to right): photograph, approximately 1958
Ortiz family children outside migrant dwellings with multiple work trucks visible in the background: photograph, approximately 1950 to 1955
Juanita Ortiz Marcial poses outdoors, dressed for her First Communion, Moapa Valley, Nevada: photograph, approximately 1962 to 1967
Ortiz family children inside St. John's Catholic Church for a First Communion celebration, Overton, Nevada. 3rd row: Pedro Ortiz Jr., unidentified individual, Cenovio Ortiz, Aurelio Ortiz, Ernesto Ortiz, unidentified individual; 2nd row: unidentified individual, Paulita Ortiz, two unidentified individuals; 1st row: Maria Perez Dominguez, Eva Perez Sam: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1969
Ortiz family children inside St. John's Catholic Church for a First Communion celebration, Overton, Nevada: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1969
Ortiz family children inside St. John's Catholic Church for a First Communion celebration, Overton, Nevada. 3rd row: Pedro Ortiz Jr., unidentified individual, Cenovio Ortiz, Aurelio Ortiz, Ernesto Ortiz; 2nd row: unidentified individual, Paulita Ortiz, two unidentified individuals; 1st row: Maria Perez Dominguez, Eva Perez Sam: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1969
Ortiz family children walking up to receive the priest's blessing during First Communion, St. John's Catholic Church, Overton, Nevada. Priest, Aurelio Ortiz, Ernesto Ortiz, Pedro Ortiz, and Cenovio Ortiz (identified from left to right): photograph, approximately 1960 to 1969
Rosa Nieto, Paulita Ortiz, Juanita Ortiz (infant) outside on "Baptism crates" (identified from left to right), Utah: photograph, 1955
Paula Ortiz, unidentified infant, and Juanita Ortiz Marcial pose in front of a car with additional trucks in the background (identified from left to right): photograph, approximately 1955 to 1959
Two Ortiz boys stand next to a fence with farm crops in the background in an unknown location: photograph, approximately 1950 to 1959
Luis Nieto Jr., Cenovio Ortiz, Ernesto Ortiz, and Pedro Ortiz Jr. stand outside migrant homes in an unknown location (identified from left to right): photograph, approximately 1960
View of the Ortiz family property including Pedro Ortiz Sr.'s truck (far right) in Logandale, Nevada: photograph, 1972
Ortiz family at the table eating a Thanksgiving meal, Logandale, Nevada. Norah Ortiz, Aurelio Ortiz, Alberto Ortiz, Cenovio Ortiz, David Ortiz, Pedro Ortiz Sr. (center), three unidentified individuals, Cornelius Ortiz (identified left to right, back to front): photograph, approximately 1965 to 1975
Jesusa Nieto Pena teaches classmates in a home economics class how to make flour tortillas, Moapa Valley High School: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1969
Ortiz children stand outside next to Pedro Sr.'s work truck as he prepares to leave for work at the Ozaki migrant dwellings, Logandale, Nevada. Juanita Ortiz Marcial, Mela Nieto Johnson, Maria Esther Ortiz, and two unidentified individuals (identified from left to right): photograph, approximately 1960 to 1965
Maria Luis Ortiz and Juanita Ortiz stand in front of train tracks behind the family home in Logandale, Nevada after a recent snowfall (identified from left to right): photograph, 1974
Jesusa Nieto Pena teaches classmates in a home economics class how to make flour tortillas, Moapa Valley High School: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1969
Unidentified child stands outside the Ortiz family home in Logandale, with washing bed for vegetables and frame for lifting heavy equipment pictured in background: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1969
Pedro Ortiz Sr. stands in front of a washing bed for vegetables outside the family home in Logandale, Nevada: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1969
Juanita Ortiz Marcial, David Ortiz, and Juanita (Jany) Ortiz on bicycles outside the family home in Logandale, Nevada: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1969
David Ortiz, Juanita (Jany) Ortiz, and Jose Luis Ortiz standing in front of a truck, with a building visible in the background, Logandale, Nevada: photograph, approximately 1969 to 1970
Jose Luis Ortiz (holding a ball) and David Ortiz pose while playing outside the family home in Logandale, Nevada: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1969
Ortiz family member picking cotton in a field either in Pahrump, Nevada or Arizona: photograph, 1964
Maria Luisa Nieto and Mary Ann Nieto (twins) stand holding dolls outside a building where others are gathered around the door in Moapa Valley, Nevada: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1969
Maria Esther Ortiz, ready to being kindergarten, stands outside the family home in Logandale, Nevada: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1965
Garza and Reyes children hold Easter baskets outside an Ozaki migrant dwelling on their way to the traditional Ozaki Easter Egg Hunt in Logandale, Nevada. Unidentified individual, Frederico Reyes, Lupe Garza (identified left to right): photograph, 1960

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