| Title |
Esperanza and Gavino Aguayo, No. 1, Hispanic Oral Histories, Accn 1369 |
| Creator |
Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932-; Aguayo, Gavino |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Date |
1985-02-06 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-02 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Bingham, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Utah--Interviews; Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932- --Interviews; Aguayo, Gavnio--Interviews; Discrimination against Mexican Americans; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Access Rights |
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| Description |
Transcript (102 pages) of part 1 of 2 of interviews by Leslie Kelen with Esperanza and Gavnio Aguayo, on February 6, 1985 and February 25, 1985. |
| Collection Number and Name |
ACCN 1369, Hispanic Oral Histories, 1984-1987 |
| Abstract |
Esperanza Aguaya (b. 1932) recalls her parents and their stories about various revolutions in Mexico. She explains how her parents came here from Mexico intending to stay one year and never went back. She and her brother, Gavino, remember their childhood in Bingham, a small mining town in Utah. Topics discussed include the differences in what girls and boys were allowed to do, street games, Hispanic culture, school, neighbors and friends from various ethnic groups, living conditions in Bingham, and racial/ethnic discrimination. |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
102 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv46923 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s64j2mvp |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893604 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64j2mvp |
| Title |
Page 14 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893512 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Esperanza y Gavina Aguayo s2:12 GA Well, it's the same thing that you see in the - - I remember seeing pictures of China the same way. It's part of the way of life, I guess. AE Well, it was better for us that·we came. L Yeah. AE If it hadn't been for that, we'd be over there. becuase nobody else came. GA When I - I guess I was 4 or 5 years old, but from telegraph, thi I can remmeber, Mexico, I don't really have no ink.ling. I remember just a little bit of a room. Dirt floor. And my mother . sweeping it. AE Can you rememl:>er that. GA Yes. AE When we went to MExico, our cousins could remember you. Our older cousins. GA But that's about as old and as far back as I can •••• I remember sweeping off the dirt floor, out 6~ the door. A little room. A little room- from my memory, it couldn't have been much more than 'bis kitchen. You know. That's all. AE That's right. No bigger than this. The houses. L Hmm. GA But from then, like I said, from - that hotel, or what you want to call it, apartment house~ that telec~:-:-:.: .· · that was our first home. Eromi _the:;-e, we moved to Dea~.- ville. And we stayed there |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64j2mvp/893512 |
