Three generations of one family worked for more than 100 years to preserve the cultural heritage of New Mexico. Eva Fenyes created an artistic and photographic record of missions and adobe buildings and preserved Spanish Colonial and Native American crafts. Leonora S. M. Curtin wrote Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande, documenting the ethnobotany of the region and the plants used by traditional healers. Leonora Curtin Paloheimo worked to preserve New Mexico's varied cultures, researched Native American languages for the Smithsonian, founded The Native Market during the Depression as an outlet for Spanish American artisans who handcrafted traditional furniture and household items, and with her Finnish husband, George Paloheimo, established New Mexico's first living history museum, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, in 1972.