Archie and Margaret Lopez Cutting Their Wedding Cake at the Watsonville Veterans Hall

A reproduction of a photograph of Margaret and Archie Lopez cutting their wedding cake at their reception at Watsonville Veteran's Hall. Archie is wearing his Caballeros de Dimas-Alang fez and a band is pictured in the background. The reproduction was created by Rosario Lopez for a family bulletin board.

Rosario Lopez

1948

Rosario Lopez

Tony Tapiz

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For more information on Filipino mixed-race families:

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).

8 x 6 inches

Still Image

LOP.2021.6

Photograph