Ben Ragsac Ironing a Dress

A photograph of Ben Ragsac ironing a dress at his laundry business called Ideal Cleaners in Watsonville. The inscription on the back identifies the man as Ben Ragsac. This is from Mamerto "Max" Sulay's personal collection.

Unidentified

c. 1940s

Juanita Sulay Wilson

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3.5 x 3 inches

Still image

SUL.2021.18

Remollino, Bernard James. “Tangible Lives: Pina/oy Migrant Cultures and Labor in Interwar California, 1920-1941.” Ph.D. diss. University of California Los Angeles, 2022. Hong, Moonyoung. “‘Home Away from Home’: Diasporic Consciousness and Everyday Third Places in Tom Murphy’s Conversations on a Homecoming.” Vol.56(3) (Michigan: Western Michigan University, Dept. of English, 2022). Mabalon,Dawn Bohulano. “As American as Jackrabbit Adobo: Cooking, Eating, and Becoming Filipina/o American before World War II.” In, Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader. Edited by Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan, and Anita Mannur, (New York: NYU Press 2013) 147-76.

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