A Group of Men having a Meal in the Fields in San Juan Bautista or Watsonville.

A photograph of a group of men having a meal in an agricultural field. In the back row, from left to right are Marcelo "Marcel" Cardona Bosque, Leon Begonia, and an unidentified man. In the front, from the left to right are an unidentified man and Mike Buencoupo. This photograph was likely taken in San Juan Bautista or Watsonville.

c. early 1930s

Sharon Bosque -Wiebe Hoffmann

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More information on the Manong, food, and Santa Clarita Valley:

Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, “As American as Jackrabbit Adobo: Cooking, Eating, and Becoming Filipina/o American before World War II,” in Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader (New York City: New York University Press, 2013), 147- 176.

"Chapter 3: Land Use History," in South Santa Clarita Valley Historical Ecological Study, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Dennis Arguelles, “Remembering the Manongs and Story of the Filipino Farm Worker Movement,” National Parks Conservation Association, 2017. https://www.npca.org/articles/1555-remembering-the-manongs-and-story-of-the-filipino-farm-worker-movement

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