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UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact) Marta Mendez was 89 years old at the time of the interview. She attended school until fourth grade and learned to read, write, and keep accounts. She had 4 brothers. She had twins and 2 sons who lived near her. She showed me the base of the corn mill and the ruins of a bread oven administered by the women’s league.
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Food Selling Corn--Milling Women's leagues Coca Cola (Trademark) Grandmothers Poverty Currency Sisters-in-law Money Pepita Wages Sales Motherhood Clothing factories Trucks Sewing Bicycles Corn dough Centavos, Mexican Mothers Politics and government Convents Political party leadership Comisaría (municipal) Pestles Wood Mopeds Manufacturing processes Girls Music Posol Roads Dough Beans Roosters Women Eggs as as currency Assembling Daughters Work Washing (cleaning) Molino de nixtamal Hammocks Workshops Atole Motul (Yucatán, Mexico) Tixkokob (Yucatán, Mexico) Lara, Paulina Chim, Paulina Cantón, Felipe E Mendez, Media Méndez Méndez, Buenaventura Pech, Asuncion Cárdenas, Lázaro, 1895-1970
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