https://wiith-archive.ucsc.edu/files/original/ec99a0fe9ef0f9eb4438fd25a3d4e3a3.jpeg 20a7a5fe35b37bdb31f3d98d75fe2e2d 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 Cawaling Family Collection Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Loren Cawaling Description An account of the resource Florencio “Encio” T. Cawaling was born on February 25, 1909 in the Aklan province of the Philippines. His parents, Lorencio and Lapaz Cawaling, had four other children after him. On March 16,1929, Florencio immigrated to the United States with Eliseo Taytayon, a close family friend also from Aklan. They traveled together on the S.S. President McKinley and arrived in Seattle, Washington on April 6, 1929. After their arrival, Florence and Eliseo moved to Alhambra, CA where he worked as a migrant farm laborer for twenty years. He traveled alongside other Filipino laborers to work on agricultural fields located along California’s central coast and into the central valley. Alongside his farming duties, Florence also worked as an occasional mechanic and fixed farming equipment such as tractors. In 1955, Florencio traveled back to the Philippines with the intention of finding a bride. He met Aladina “Dining” Torres Garcia through his family’s connections with the Taytayon family. Eliseo was married to Rosalinda Taytayon, the niece of Aladina. Aladina was the youngest daughter of Ermito Torres and Encarnacion Garcia Torres who lived in the municipality of Kalibo in the Aklan province of the Philippines. At the age of 24, Aladina married Florencio who was 45 at the time. On March 15, 1956, Florencio returned to the United States and five months later Aladina joined him. They settled in Watsonville on Calabasas Road where they had four children: Florencio Jr. (Loren), George, Halario (Larry), and Isidro. Florencio continued to work in the fields including Shikuma Brothers Ranch, Kenzo Yoshida Farms, and Green Giant where he worked until his retirement in 1977. Aladina worked at the Green Giant cannery. The Cawaling family engaged in many community activities including cockfighting or picnics and participated in cultural associations such as the Filipino Visayan Association and Aklan Civic League. The Cawaling Family Collection was contributed to Watsonville is in the Heart in 2022 by Florencio and Aladina Cawaling's son, Loren Cawaling. The collection contains twenty-four items total. It includes two oral history interviews with Loren in which he discusses his father's and other manongs' labor and leisure activities as well as his experience growing up in a tight-knit Filipino American kinship network. The collection also includes twenty-two photographs depicting the Florencio and Aladina Cawaling as well as other manong who were part of their extended family network. 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 Group Photograph in front of Estelita Tabios' Car Description An account of the resource A group photograph was taken on the Cawaling family's Calabasas Road property in front of Estelita Tabios’ car. In the back starting on the left is Estelita as well as Clemente Tana Jr., Elizabeth “Liz” Taytayon Tana, Loren Cawaling, Fred Tejada, Josephine Tejada, and Medy Tejada. In the front starting on the left are Isedro Cawaling, Annette Tejada, Frances Tejada, and Lucy Tejada. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unidentified Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Dec. 1965 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Loren Cawaling 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 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 The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 3.5 x 3.5 inches Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CAW.2022.14 Calabasas Road Cars