Juanita Tamayo Lott Filipino American Photographs
name: label: Creator
content: Lott, Juanita Tamayo
place: label: Place
content: San Francisco (Calif.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Education, Bilingual
label: Topic
content: Family -- California
label: Topic
content: Family reunions
label: Topic
content: Family vacations
label: Topic
content: Hotels
label: Topic
content: Hotels -- California
label: Topic
content: Low-income housing
label: Topic
content: Vacations
label: Topic
content: Weddings
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Juanita Tamayo Lott donated this collection to the Museum in 2006.
creator: label: Creator
content: Lott, Juanita Tamayo
culture: label: Culture
content: Filipino Americans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Juanita Tamayo Lott Filipino American Photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection consists mostly of photographs of a Filipino American family in San Francisco, primarily in the 1950s and 1960s documenting family gatherings, vacations, and church and school events.  Also includes photographs of residents of the International Hotel in San Francisco where many older low income Filipino immigrants lived.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Statistician, demographer, author, and activist Juanita Tamayo Lott was born in 1948 in the Philippines to Lazaro Lorenza Tamayo and Anicia Lucas Tamayo. She moved to San Francisco in 1951 and attended San Francisco State College where she co-founded the first United States Filipino American Studies Program while still a student. Upon graduating in 1970, with a degree in Sociology, she went on to attend graduate school at the University of Chicago. Lott married Robert Henry Lott in 1973, and they moved to Washington, DC where two sons, David Tamayo Lott and Joseph Henry Lott III, were raised.

Juanita Tamayo Lott has spent much of her professional career working on behalf of Asian Americans for the United States federal government.  Among the different agencies that she worked for is the United States Census Bureau; United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (DHEW); and the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Lott has also committed time and resources to writing publications for both the scholarly and popular communities relating to Asian Americans and has contributed widely to the establishment of several Asian American studies departments. 

Sources: 

Ancestry.com

Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_Tamayo_Lott
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.33 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1942-2005
label: Date
content: bulk 1950-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0925
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Advertising fliers
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Type
content: Calendars
label: Type
content: Fliers (printed matter)
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged in alphabetical order by subject.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Kiley Orchard, intern, and Vanessa Broussard-Simmons, archivist, May 2008.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising fliers
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs -- 1950-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Calendars -- 1950-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Fliers (printed matter)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection documents family gatherings, vacations, and social activities of Juanita Tamayo Lott and her family and friends in eight photographs.  Also included are a program from the Tamayo Family Reunion in May 2005 and a flier for the Filipino American National Historical Society's film Filipino Americans: Discovering their Past for the Future. A highlight of the collection is information about the International Hotel, a luxury hotel built in the late 1800s that later turned into low-income housing, where many members of the Manong Generation -- the first Filipino ethnic group to immigrate to California--spent their senior years.  Lott has also included a 1978 calendar that advocates low income housing and prominently features the International Hotel.  On the back of three (of the eight) photographs related to the International Hotel are letters written by Daniel Begonia chronicling the difficulties of developing bilingual/bicultural programs in the San Francisco area.

Juanita Tamayo Lott wrote a three page introduction to the entire collection in 2006.  It is included in the first folder.
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