https://wiith-archive.ucsc.edu/files/original/7fa05faa8d4880c57499d709185dda97.jpg 40eeffc2f657858a9e19dd616559e3e1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Millares Family Collection Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Joan Ellen Rodriguez Description An account of the resource John Madio Millares was born January 5, 1907, in the municipality of Bangar, in the region of La Union, in the Philippines to a rice- and tobacco-farming family. He was the youngest of eight children. In 1927, he followed one of his brothers-in-law and migrated to Hawai‘i. He worked as a contract laborer in the sugarcane fields and the sugar mills for three years. In 1930, he traveled to California with other Filipinos from Hawai‘i to join the agricultural migrant circuit, along which he worked in fields around Bakersfield, Stockton, and Fresno as well as in Arizona. In 1935, John and his friends traveled to Watsonville for additional agricultural work. Though settled in Watsonville, he continued to migrate for work, completing contracts in Alaskan canneries and Seattle during the late 1930s and early 1940s. He also continued working in the fields of the Imperial Valley, Stockton, San Juan Bautista, Hollister, and Pajaro Valley. When Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941, John was working in Hollister. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force and was stationed principally in Hawai‘i. While serving in the military, he married Vera Marshall, whom he met while working in San Luis Obispo County. Vera was born on January 14, 1922, in Kansas. She came to California with her family in the late 1930s. She and John traveled to Washington to marry due to anti-miscegenation laws and discrimination against interracial couples in California. After John was discharged from the military in 1946, the couple settled in the Pajaro Valley. Three years later, they purchased a home in Hollister, where they raised their two daughters, Joan Millares Rodriguez (b. 1941) and Mary Janet Millares Nasaire (b. 1943 – d. 2003). John worked as a forklift driver for the Rohnert Seed Company in San Benito County for over thirty years, retiring in 1985. Vera passed in 1997, and John in 2004. The Millares Family Collection was provided to Watsonville is in the Heart by John and Vera Millares's daughter, Joan Ellen Rodriguez, in 2021. The collection contains two hundred and sixty-two items. Two hundred and five of the items are photographs and postcards from John's personal photograph album. The album documents his migrant labor and military experiences. A large section of his album includes multiple souvenir photographs of women in Hawaiian costumes and performers in USO (United Service Organizations) shows, documenting the leisure activities he took part in as a soldier while stationed in Hawai‘i. Other photographs include inscriptions that indicate that select photographs were sent to John to be added to his personal album. This suggests that John's photography and collection practices were well-known among family and friends. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Seated Outdoors Description An account of the resource A photograph of a group of people seated at an outdoor event. Many men in the photograph are wearing military uniforms. This image is from John Madio Millares' personally curated photograph album. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1940s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Joan Ellen Rodriguez Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 4. 5 x 3.25 inches Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MIL.2021.189 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource unknown Military World War 2 World War II WW2