Installation and Dance Event for Filipino Women's Club at the Veterans Memorial Hall

Installation event for the Filipino Community Woman's Club of Watsonville held at Veterans' Hall in Watsonville. In the front row, from left to right are: unknown, unknown, Martha Galimba, Mary Ragsac, Apolonia Dangsalan, Rosita Tabasa, Connie Ramirez,Estella Sulit, Nena Alminiana, Teodora "Teddy" Barba, Rita Castro, Shirley Bermio, unknown, unknown, and Esther Tabancay. In the second row are: Margaret Lopez, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Mable Lucas, Bernie Abillie, Virginia Sulay, unknown, unknown, unknown, and unknown.

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April 19, 1951

Juanita Sulay Wilson

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More information on the Filipino Women's Club and other forms of community building:

Dawn Bohulano Mabalon. Little Manila Is in the Heart : The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California. Durham: Duke University Press (2013).

Roces, Mina. “‘These Guys Came Out Looking Like Movie Actors’: Filipino Dress and Consumer Practices in the United States, 1920s–1930s.” Pacific Historical Review 85, no. 4 (2016): 532–76.

Rudy P. Guevarra. Becoming Mexipino : Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press (2012).

8 x 10 inches

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