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Portrait of Galdino Velasco with his wife, Juana Velasco.

Galdino Velasco with two other men holding sombreros and pointing at the street sign for Galdino Velasco Way on Bank Street in Stamford, Connecticut

Photo of award recipients at the Latino Foundation of Stamford's 11th Annual Generation of Pioneers Awards Banquet.
From left to right:
Jenny Reynoso, Eduardo Balbuena, Alda Rojas, Sergio Ramos, Emily Rojas, Senator Richard Blumenthal, Lupe Ramos,…

A sense-of-the-Board resolution calling for a vanity street sign to be installed on Bank Street to be named Galdino Velasco Way to recognize Galdino Velasco's contributions to the Latino community in Stamford.

The Puerto Rican Association of Stamford, Connecticut meeting at the Stark School in 1957

Galdino Velasco with the 2015 Land of Opportunity Award. The Land of Opportunity Award recognizes a local resident who immigrated to the greater Stamford area and whose accomplishments embody the realization of the American Dream, through their own…

Recording of interview with Galdino Velasco at the Atlantic Apartments on Bank Street in Stamford, Connecticut. He talks about immigrating to the United States from Mexico and the various jobs that he worked in Stamford before opening his restaurant,…

Photograph of the second grade class at the Centro Escolar de la Asociacion de Dependientes del Comercio de la Habana in Havana, Cuba in 1960. According to information recorded on the reverse side, Miriam Isidro Arrango is likely in the second row…

Photograph of Miriam Isidro Arrange standing in her school uniform and holding her school bag before attending kindergarten in Cuba on January 23, 1958.

Miriam Isidro Arrango as a little girl when she was five years old