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Scope and Contents Asuncion Santos and her five-year-old sister Fermina moved from the Philippines to Washington, D.C. in 1915. Fermina married Mariano Peji and they opened several restaurants, including the Light House Café in Portsmouth, Virginia. Asuncion married Generoso Gaudiel and adopted Doris Eleanor Relucio (1926-2001), whom they renamed Amparing Santos Gaudiel. Asuncion later married Gil Esposo and they opened the restaurant Manila House in Washington, D.C. Amparing married Leonilo...

Scope and Contents Pedro Sarmiento (1905-1998) worked for the U.S. Army in the Philippines and married Cresenciana Calvelo (1908-1979) in 1931. During World War II earned a Bronze Medal and Purple Heart. He fought in the Battle of Bataan and was captured as a prisoner of war. After the war the family lived where Pedro was stationed, but settled in Chevy Chase, D.C., when he retired in 1957. Pedro and Cresenciana's son, Pedro David, Jr., was born in 1933 in Manila. He married Clavelina (Lee) Quidangen (b. 1934)...

Scope and Contents Silvestre Braga Brazal (1906-1995) served as a steward in the U.S. Navy beginning in 1928. Silvestre married Helen McGonagle in 1947 and they had two daughters, Elena and Monica. Helen was a founding member of the Ladies Auxiliary of V.F.W. Post #5471 and Monica later served as its president (1).The digitized photographs are official U.S. Navy release photographs of Chief Petty Officer Silvestre Brazal taken at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. One includes a group of sailors and...

Scope and Contents Felipe Estifano Mondoñedo (1897-1986) was born in Boac, Marinduque, Philippines and enlisted in the United States Navy while living in Manila and served during World War I and World War II, including on the steel-hulled sailing bark U.S.S. Cumberland in Annapolis, Maryland during World War I (1). He became a citizen in 1944 and after the war he married Christine Helphenstine (1926-1979) (2). Felipe worked as a valet and chauffeur for retired military officer Major Davis B. Wills at 2359...

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Washington, D.C., as the capital of the United States and the headquarters of the Philippines government in exile during World War II, saw many visits from Filipino politicians and other prominent people. This series consists of press release photographs of prominent Filipino politicians and other important Filipinos in the United States.