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Existing comment: Salazar and Orozco families' baseball scrapbook, California, around 1920s

International Careers

Baseball scrapbooks demonstrate international lives and, in this case, feature women's invisible work to remember the careers of male family members. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Rose Marie Salazar meticulously recorded baseball clippings of her husband, Alonzo Orozco, and brother David Salazar, in the U.S. Southwest and Mexico.
photo, framed

El Paso Shoe Store team, Los Angeles, California, early 1930s

Rose Marie Salazar-Orozco kept this photo of her husband, Alonzo Orozco, and her brother, David Salazar. The teammates are indicated in marker.

Gift of Elisa Orozco-O'Neil
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bracelet

Rose Marie Salazar-Orozco's silver bracelet, 1935

Rose Marie Salazar-Orozco received this bracelet from her younger brother, Ernesto, as thanks for writing to him during his time in the Mexican Baseball League.

Gift of Elisa Orozco-O'Neil
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