Photograph of the Glenn-Dowe House in Del Rio, Texas. The door leads to the back kitchen.

Patent for a lifter for stove lids that may also be used as kitchen tongs, with illustrations.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Glenn-Dowe House, in Del Rio, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, maps, and photographs.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Diana Salgado grew up in the Barrio Chihuahua area of Del Rio in the 1940s. She recalled the discrimination in public spaces in the city (movie theaters, soda fountains…) and how the operators of these places would sometimes try to give her preferential treatment over other Mexican Americans due to her fair skin. Salgado married and dropped out of school shortly before her expected graduation; after spending some years in Arizona, her husband and her moved to San Jose, California, where she found a job in a fruit cannery. In her years working at the cannery, Salgado and her family witnessed the height of the farm workers' movement, and joined the boycotts (her husband was a union member). During her time at the cannery, she also realized the discriminatory practices against line workers and other unsavory actions by the management. She later quit the cannery and became a licensed realtor; after retiring, her family moved back to Texas, eventually resettling in Del Rio. She became involved with local politics through the Democratic Party; she was the chair of the Val Verde Co. committee and ran for several local posts. As leader of the local Democrats, in 2009 she challenged the …

Weekly newspaper from Del Rio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.