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  • A1993-014.0001
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Negative File
Portrait of Weldon Lane, son of Jesse Lane and Mercedes Pena Lane. Caption on back: "Le dedigo est retrato a mi tia Rosita Garcia de su sobrino Weldon Lane."
  • A1993-014.0002
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Negative File
Postcard with photo of Weldon Lane as a young adult, made in San Antonio.
  • A1993-014.0003
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Negative File
Mother Lane standing in front of her home on E. Henrietta in Kingsville, TX. Snow on the ground indicates that this photo must have been taken in 1940.
  • A1993-014.0004
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Negative File
Some of Mother Lane's satisfied patients, as she practiced her trade as a curandera in Kingsville / Bishop, TX, during the 1930s.
  • A1993-014.0005
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Negative File
Mr. & Mrs. Boorstein (L), with Eva Garcia (R), cousin of Mother Mercedes Pena Lane.
  • A1993-014.0006
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Negative File
Customers in front of a store in Bishop, TX, owned by Francisco Garcia, whose wife, Eva Garcia, was a cousin of Mother Mercedes Pena Lane, a local curandera in the 1930s. At the store, customers / patients bought the supplies necessary for Mother Lane to cure them.
  • A1993-014.0007
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Negative File
Mother Lane (C), with relatives, standing in front of the tourist court built in Bishop, TX, to house the patients who came to be cured by this local curandera in the 1930s.
  • A1993-014.0008
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Negative File
The cleaning ladies at the tourist court in Bishop, TX, who worked for Mother Mercedes Pena lane. Caption on back: "For Esther and Cooka, from Gladys Couchman."
  • A1993-014.0009
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Negative File
A 1930s era automobile parked in front of the tourist court built in Bishop, TX by Francisco Garcia, for his wife's cousin, Mother Mercedes Pena Lane, to practice her trade as a curandera.
  • A1993-014.0010
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Negative File
Patients in the tourist court in Bishop, TX, waiting to be treated by Mother Mercedes Pena Lane, a local curandera in the 1930s.
  • A1993-014.0011
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Negative File
Portrait of Mercedes Pena Lane, a curandera operating in the Kingsville / Bishop, TX area.
  • A1993-014.0012
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Negative File
A satisfied customer (R) in San Antonio, TX, after Mother Mercedes Pena Lane (L), a practicing curandera, went to visit her
  • A1993-014.0013
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Negative File
Mother Mercedes Pena Lane, a local curandera, standing between two seated relatives in front of the tourist court built in Bishop, TX, to house her patients .
  • A1993-014.0014
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: Media File C.1 D.3
Interview with Antero Garcia, conducted by Leslie & Cecilia Hunter. Garcia discusses the exploits of his aunt, Mother Mercedes Pena Lane, who practiced as a curandera in the Kingsville / Bishop, TX area
  • A1993-014.0015
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: H-17-2 Box 1
Warrant of Authority
  • A1993-014.0016
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: H-17-2 Box 1
Court Documents
  • A1993-014.0017
  • Collection: Mother Mercedes Henriquetta Pena Lane Collection
  • Location: H-17-2 Box 1
Notes taken for article by Leslie Gene Hunter and published in Southwestern Quarterly on Mother Lane
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