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Angelina Fallorina's Blue, Floral Album

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Title

Angelina Fallorina's Blue, Floral Album

Description

A photograph album created by Angelina Nicolas Fallorina. The album is eighteen pages long. It documents the Fallorina family life in Watsonville during the 1960s. This includes photographs of Agenlina, her husband, Mariano Fallorina Sr., and their three children Elizabeth "Liz" Nicolas Fallorina, Mariano Nicolas Fallorina Jr., and Daniel "Dan" Kerubin Fallorina. The album also includes photographs of Angelina's life and relatives in the Philippines. For images of all the pages included in this entry, click on the attached image to open a PDF of all the pages.
Page 1: This page includes two photographs. Photo 1 shows Angelina's class when she worked as a teacher at Corregidor College in the Philippines from 1950- 1951 before coming to the US. Photo 2 shows elementary school teachers at Corregidor College in 1950-1951. Angelina is pictured in the back row on the far right.
Page 2: This page includes six photographs. Photo 1 is Dan Fallorina in 1968 in the backyard of his home on Holly Drive. Photo 2 is Mariano Jr. in 1968 at the Watsonville fly-in—a Memorial weekend event in which antique planes from all over the country came to Watsonville. The Fallorinas attend this event every year. Photo 3 was taken in Alameda, CA in 1967. It shows Rowena Bernardo, Liz Fallorina, Noel Bernardo, and Dan Fallorina. Photo 4 is Dan posed with a neighbor at the family home on Holly Drive. It was taken in 1968. Photographs 5 and 6 were taken in Alameda, CA in 1967. They show Rowena Bernardo, Liz Fallorina, Noel Bernardo, and Dan Fallorina.
Page 3: This page includes five photographs. Photo 1 is Dan at home on Holly Drive in 1967. Photo 2 is Mariano Jr. at home on Holly Drive in 1967. Photo 3 is Angelina and Mariano Jr. in 1967 at their home on Holly Drive. Photo 4 is Angelina and Mariano Jr. standing in front of the family's new '68 Cougar. Photo 5 is Liz and Angelina standing in front of the new car.
Page 4: This page includes six photographs. Photo 1 is the Franco family's daughter in Seaside. Photo 2 shows Dan playing with toy guns. Photo 3 shows Patrine Dumayas, Angelina's cousin, in 1967. Patrine stayed with the Fallorinas after migrating from the Philippines. She worked in the canneries like Angelina. Photo 4 shows Dan ironing his drumstick case in 1967. Photo 5 shows the Franco family in Seaside. Photo 6 shows Dan playing with Lincoln Logs.
Page 5: This page includes six photographs. Photo 1 is a Christmas card sent from an unidentified family. Photo 2 shows Joe Reyes receiving his diploma in 1967. Photo 3 shows two Fallorina family cousins in front of a Christmas tree. Photo 4 is Dan sitting in front of the Christmas tree. Photo 5 is Mariano Jr. at his Junior High graduation. Photo 6 shows Angelina and her sons posed with Patrine Dumayas on Thanksgiving.
Page 6: This page includes four photographs. Photo 1 is a portrait of Mariano Jr. Photo 2 shows Angelina and Dan in 1967. Photos 3 and 4 show Fallorina's cousins playing.
Page 7: This page includes six photographs. Photo 1 is a small school portrait of Dan. Photo 2 is a school portrait of Mariano Jr. Photos 3 and 4 are unidentified. Photo 5 is Angelina and Mariano Sr.'s granddaughter, Jackie. Photo 6 is a duplicate of Photo 2.
Page 8: This page includes eight photographs. Photo 1 is a school portrait of Angelina and Mariano Sr.'s granddaughter, Jackie. Photos 2 through 5 are unidentified. Photo 6 shows two cousins at Liz's wedding in 1972. Photo 7 is unidentified.
Page 9: This page includes nine photographs. Photo 1 is a Christmas Card from the Ford family. Clifford Ford was the pastor at the First United Methodist Church that the Fallorinas attended. Photo 2 is a baby photo of Jackie. Photo 3 is a small portrait of Liz. Photo 4 shows Liz with Jackie. The page also includes a newspaper clipping showing Liz's husband receiving an award.
Page 10: This page includes nine photographs. Photos 1 and 3-9 are of unidentified people and were likely sent to Angelina from the Philippines. Photo 2 is a portrait of Mariano Jr.
Page 11: This page includes six photographs. Photos 1-3 are of unidentifiedpeople and were likely sent to Angelina from the Philippines. Photo 4 shows Dan with his bike. Photo 5 is a studio portrait of a cousin from the Philippines. Dan believes that it may depict a cousin from his mother's side of the family who contracted polio and wanted to come to the US but was unable to. Photo 6 shows Dan playing in the backyard.
Page 12: This page includes five photographs of unidentifiedpeople. They were likely sent to Angelina from the Philippines.
Page 13: This page includes five photographs. Photos 1-3 are unidentifiedwomen and were likely sent to Angelina from the Philippines. Photo 4 depicts Angelina in the Reiter Berries strawberry fields. Photo 5 is a studio photograph of an unidentified woman that was likely sent from the Philippines.
Page 14: This page includes six photographs. Photo 1 shows a cousin, Noel Bernardo. Photo 2 shows a group of friends from Seaside. Photo 3 is an image of Dan mid-sneeze. Photo 4 shows Dan sitting in the living room. Photo 5 was taken in Alameda, CA in 1967. It shows Rowena Bernardo, Liz Fallorina, Noel Bernardo, and Dan Fallorina as kids in Alameda. Photo 6 is unidentified.
Page 15: This page includes six photographs. Photo 1 shows Dan playing with a chessboard. Photo 2 shows Dan in 1968. He is tracking songs from the radio. Photo 3 is Mariano Sr. and Angelina's grandson, Joshua. Photos 5 and 6 are Dan playing army in his room.
Page 16: This page includes five photographs. Photo 1 is a group of friends standing on Holly Drive. Photo 2 is a portrait of Liz. Photo 3 is of Dan playing army. Photo 3 is Dan as a toddler in the strawberry fields of San Andreas Road. Photo 5 is a group of unidentified people in the Philippines.
Page 17: This page includes four photographs. Photo 1 is an image of Hearst Castle. Photo 2 is of an unidentified baby. Photo 3 is a portrait of Angelina and Mariano Sr.'s granddaughter, Jackie. Photo 4 is Dan as a toddler in the strawberry fields.
Page 18: This page includes two photographs, a postcard, and three loose images. Photo 1 is of two Fallorina family cousins. Photo 3 is of Dan as a toddler in a labor camp off San Andreas Road.

Creator

Angelina Nicolas Fallorina

Date

Unidentified

Contributor

Daniel "Dan" Fallorina

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 the greater Pajaro Valley. Images were donated and digitally reproduced from private collections of individuals and families. Copyright remains with the 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

11.25 x 10 inches

Type

Physical Object

Identifier

FAL.2021.19 - FAL.2021.37

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Original Format

Photograph Album

Files

FAL.2021.19-37.combined.pdf

Citation

Angelina Nicolas Fallorina , “Angelina Fallorina's Blue, Floral Album,” Watsonville is in the Heart: Community Digital Archive, accessed November 21, 2024, https://wiith-archive.ucsc.edu/items/show/715.

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