Kids in the Colony – Avalos, Chihuahua

With the help of Coky Zangwill Bohanon, from left to right on the top row: Catina Wilson, Lilia Perez, Unknown, Charlie Alvarado, Andy Bradford. Bottom row, from left to right: Coky Zangwill, Flossy Wilson, Tiquis Avila, Unknown, Chayo Avila and Lolita Bradford.

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Minera Mexicana – Penoles Avalos Engine

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Villa Confiscates American Smelter

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Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

My daughter asked me to write a few lines about my life growing up in Avalos, Chihuahua.
My name is Florence “Flossy” Wilson Delgado and I was born in El Paso, Texas in 1938. Two weeks after my birth, my mother, Catherine Morris Wilson and my sister Catherine “Catina” Wilson Shupe and I were on our [...]

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Tarjeta Postales Antiguas de Chihuahua

From the University of Ciudad Juarez (UACJ), a collection of antique postcards including one from Chihuahua with the Avalos smelter tower in the background. Visit UACJ.

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Avalos celebration

In July 2007, architect Carlos Carvajal, presented an exhibition entitled “Avalos, fotografía, vida y leyenda” a celebration of the smelter and the people who worked there.  For more information on the exhibition, check out the News section.

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Chihuahua from the Cathedral

From the University of California library system.

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Mexican mining and smelting history

This vignette shows El Septentrion in Chihuahua and comes from a beautiful map dated 1885 from the David Rumsey Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.  Inset chart on the original full-sized map Carta Minera shows the production of gold and silver throughout the country. The surrounding vignettes are of the mining towns [...]

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