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Photographs of Florentino Pacheco property in Cotton Mill Addition to the City of El Paso. Photographs are included in an International Boundary and Water Commission investigation report on the value of the Pacheco property. Report was forwarded to…

Black and white portrait of Ricardo Sanchez

Black and white photograph of Pedro and Adelina Sanchez with their son, Chicano poet Ricardo Sanchez

Cruz and Victoria Carbajal sell portion of their El Jardin Property to Texas State Highway Commission as part of Border Highway preparations.

Cruz and Victoria Carbajal sell portion of El Jardin property to U.S. federal government as part of Chamizal Treaty.

"Homing" 1971 poem by Ricardo Sanchez describing Barrio del Diablo in South El Paso and the destruction of his childhood home by the Chamizal Treaty

Documents of support related to the Quinones family home in Rio Linda submitted as part of Declaration of Taking by the International Boundary and Water Commission for Chamizal Treaty.

Associated Press report on the Chamizal Treaty and relocation proceedings. Carlos Quinones is shown in the report's accompanying photograph and quoted in the piece about his experience.

El Paso Times 1974 newspaper report on Soledad Aguirre Loya's ongoing battled with the City of El Paso. Loya filed a $25,000 lawsuit against the City for the city's removal of her property while she was serving as a juror.

Newspaper article on the lands and properties acquired in Chamizal Treaty, including proposed additional land to be taken in the settlement.