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Title
Mother and son at a train station
Alternative Title
Shades of L.A. Photo Collection;
Contributor
Shades of L.A. is an archive of photographs representing the contemporary and historic diversity of families in Los Angeles. Images were chosen from family albums and include daily life, social organizations, work, personal and holiday celebrations, and migration and immigration activities. Made possible and accessible through the generous support of the Security Pacific National Bank, Sunlaw Cogeneration Partners, Photo Friends, California Council for the Humanities, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1935
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and educational use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/orderinguse.html for additional information.
The contents of this collection are restricted to personal, research, and non-commercial use. The Library cannot share the personal and/or contact information of the donors, their descendants, or associates who contributed photographs and oral histories to the collection.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; Image is a reproduction.
Helen Brown was born in 1915 in Manila, Philippines. Her mother was Filipina and her father was an American who had emigrated to The Philippines to teach English. In 1933 the family immigrated to America. They lived in Arcadia, California and Helen attended Pasadena City College and then UCLA. She earned her Bachelor’s in 1937 and her Master’s in 1939, both from UCLA. She worked as a teacher and married her husband in 1941 in Boulder, CO to work around miscegenation laws. She and her husband both worked in shipyards during WWII. Helen began working as a child welfare and attendance worker for the school district and continued to work in the education system for 34 years. In the late 1960s she joined a group known as Asians Coming together (ACT 1). She also founded the Pilipino American Reading Room and Library (PARRAL) in 1985.
Mary and her son, Billy, at Santa Fe Station in Pasadena on their way to Colorado.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;22 x 16 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00003956
Shades of L.A. Collection; Shades of L.A.: Filipino American Community;
S-006-104 120
CARL0005008991
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/80730
Subject
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Families--California--Pasadena
Railroad stations--California--Pasadena
Signs and signboards--California--Pasadena
Pasadena (Calif.)
Shades of L.A. Collection photographs
Shades of L.A. Filipino American photographs
Source
Brown, Helen Agcaoili Summers.

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