Soy de Duval Salutes National Women's History Month

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Women at Methodist Church gathering*, San Diego, Texas. (n.d.). Retrieved March 9, 2022, from https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll008/id/5183/rec/62


Writing about his experience in San Diego in 1891, a New York Sun reporter wrote:

“at the risk of offending the fair and fashionable ladies of Gotham City, there crowded into a small barn-like theater or Teatro of the town last night more pretty women than any theater in New York ever held at one time…their hair was brushed smoothly back over their shapely heads, a la Mexicana, with here and there a Texas Lilly gleaning like a star in their tresses the señoritas had the wonderful pure Madonna-like beauty which northern eyes never see save in pictures of Santa María painted by old masters…Murillo probably used their great-great-grandmothers for his creations of the Holy Mother. 

*These are not the señoritas that the reporter spoke about, but they are from that same generation.



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