Black and white photos: New York City skyline, Madison Avenue street view looking at Peck & Peck department store. Onscreen text: Our Story begins in New York City
Black and white photo: Clotilde Arias stands with her arm around her son. She wears a cloche hat and black short-sleeve dress. Onscreen text: Clotilde Arias.
Magdalena Mieri speaks directly to camera against a white background. She has short black hair, glasses and wears a yellow high-necked, sleeveless blouse and large circle earrings. Onscreen text: Magdalena Meri: Director of Programs in Latino History and Culture National Museum of American History.
Black and white photo: Arias sitting at a piano pointing to sheet music. A man is standing by her side. In background sheet music scrolls past the screen.
Color Documents: Document with title "The Star-Spangled Banner" with lyrics below; Document with title "El Pendon Estrellado" with lyrics and hand written annotations.
Black and white photo: young Arias seated at a home piano looking over her shoulder at the camera.
Color document: Sheet music with title "Huircocha: Canción Incaica, Dedicada al indio, el hombre olvidado de las Américas."
Mieri reappears.
Orange tinted drawing of Iquitos, Peru showing grand building above and a river with large steamboats below. Onscreen text: Iquitos, Peru.
Black and white photo: New York skyscraper. Color photo: Arias' Peruvian passport showing her photo and thumbprint.
Document: Arias' U.S. Certificate of Naturalization.
Mieri reappears.
Black and white photos: Group photo at a restaurant; Arias standing with 5 men and one woman, Arias posing holding large bouquet of flowers, headshot of Arias, Arias with her son in a baby carriage. In background, orange-tinted photo of New York City skyline.
Mieri reappears.
Black and white sketches: Alka-Seltzer logo; Spanish Alka-Seltzer advertisement with young boy wearing sombrero reading "Prontito";
Mieri reappears.
Black and white document: Velveeta advertisement recipe card in Spanish for Quesadilla con Camarones.
Black and white group photo of 11 women including Arias.
Mieri reappears.
Collaged Image. Black and white portraits of Magdalena Mieri and Clotilde Arias. Center orange and blue band with text: Latinas Talk Latinas The impact of a Peruvian Immigrant, Logos: National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Latino Center.
Logos: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian, Smithsonian Latino Center
Images and Music Courtesy of: Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian; Library of Congress; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Telling the Story of Clotilde Arias is possible due to the efforts of the late Marvette Perez, first curator of Latinx History at the National Museum of American History; Blurry Vision, Corbyn Kites. Youtube Audio Library; First Class, DJ Williams. Youtube Audio Library; Mama, Emmit Fenn. Youtube Audio Library.