Filipinos In Puget Sound (WA) (Images of America) by Laigo Cordova
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By Laigo Cordova, Dorothy and Filipino American National Historical Society
Since the 19th century, Filipinos have immigrated to the Puget Sound region, which contains a deep inland sea once surrounded by forests and waters teeming with salmon. Seattle was the closest mainland American port to the Far East. In 1909, the "Igorotte Village" was the most popular venue at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and the year when the first Filipina war bride arrived. Filipinos laid telephone and telegraph cables from Seattle to Alaska; were seamen, U.S. Navy recruits, students, and cannery workers; and worked in lumber mills, restaurants, or as houseboys. With one Filipina woman to 30 men, most early Filipino families in the Puget Sound were interracial. After World War II , communities grew with the arrival of new war brides, military families, immigrants, and exchange students and workers and second-generation Pinoys and Pinays began their families. With the 1965 revision of U.S. immigration laws, the Filipino population in Puget Sound cities, towns, and farm areas grew rapidly and changed dramatically--as did all of Puget Sound. This book is part of the Series: Images of America which features cities and regions in the US where the Filipino community thrives.
About the Author
The national office of the Filipino American National Historical Society shares this history through more than 230 photographs. For more than 30 years, Dorothy Laigo Cordova, FANHS executive director, has recorded oral histories and collected vintage photographs of Filipinos in America.
Series: Images of America
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (May 4, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 073857134-2
ISBN-13: 978-07-3-857134-8
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.3 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
Since the 19th century, Filipinos have immigrated to the Puget Sound region, which contains a deep inland sea once surrounded by forests and waters teeming with salmon. Seattle was the closest mainland American port to the Far East. In 1909, the "Igorotte Village" was the most popular venue at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and the year when the first Filipina war bride arrived. Filipinos laid telephone and telegraph cables from Seattle to Alaska; were seamen, U.S. Navy recruits, students, and cannery workers; and worked in lumber mills, restaurants, or as houseboys. With one Filipina woman to 30 men, most early Filipino families in the Puget Sound were interracial. After World War II , communities grew with the arrival of new war brides, military families, immigrants, and exchange students and workers and second-generation Pinoys and Pinays began their families. With the 1965 revision of U.S. immigration laws, the Filipino population in Puget Sound cities, towns, and farm areas grew rapidly and changed dramatically--as did all of Puget Sound. This book is part of the Series: Images of America which features cities and regions in the US where the Filipino community thrives.
About the Author
The national office of the Filipino American National Historical Society shares this history through more than 230 photographs. For more than 30 years, Dorothy Laigo Cordova, FANHS executive director, has recorded oral histories and collected vintage photographs of Filipinos in America.
Series: Images of America
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (May 4, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 073857134-2
ISBN-13: 978-07-3-857134-8
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.3 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces