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

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Title

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

Description

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.

Creator

unknown

Date

April 19, 1951

Contributor

Juanita Sulay Wilson

Rights

Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) is a community-driven public history initiative to preserve and uplift stories of Filipino migration and labor in the city of Watsonville and greater Pajaro Valley. Images were donated and digitally reproduced from private collections of individuals and families. Copyright remains with original owners. All images included herein are intended for personal or educational use only. Any reproduction, redistribution, publication, or other use, by any means, without prior written permission is prohibited. Please note that the images on this website are not included at their full resolution. For permission to publish or reproduce and for higher resolution files, please contact the project director at wiith@ucsc.edu . If you are the rightful copyright holder of this item and its use online constitutes an infringement of your copyright, please contact the project director to discuss its removal from the archive.

Relation

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).

Format

8 x 10 inches

Type

Still Image

Identifier

SUL.2021.80

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Original Format

Photograph

Files

SUL.2021.80.jpeg

Citation

unknown, “Installation and Dance Event for Filipino Women's Club at the Veterans Memorial Hall,” Watsonville is in the Heart: Community Digital Archive, accessed November 7, 2024, https://wiith-archive.ucsc.edu/items/show/303.

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