On Saturday, January 11, 2025, author and genealogist Henrietta Martinez Christmas will speak on Spanish Colonial Women in New Mexico: Clothing and Household Goods. Christmas will discuss what inventories of women’s clothing and household goods can tell us about the lives of women and how they lived, survived and thrived in the outer reaches of the Spanish frontier. These material goods reveal so much about priorities, values, cultural connections, innovations, and women making a new life in a new land. This free presentation will be held from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon at the Albuquerque Public Main Library, 501 Copper NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, ph# 505-768-5141.
[Photo: commons.wikimedia. Portrait of Matilde de Gálvez Capece
Minutolo (1778 – 1839). She was the wife of the Italian field marshal
Raimondo Capece Minutolo and the daughter of Bernardo de
Gálvez, the Viceroy of Mexico from 1785 to 1786].