This collection contains one photograph album featuring images of the Cesena family and their friends. A majority of the photographs consists of portraits of the family; images of friends the Cortez and Marquez families; images featuring orchards and farms; images taken outside the family home; photographs taken during World War II of men in uniform and images taken at various Army bases; and images taken at weddings, bridal showers, other gatherings, and family vacations. This collection also includes postcards and a few clippings.

Thomas Agundez "Tomás" Cesena (1869-1959), and his wife Tranquilina Arce "Lena" Espinosa Cesena (1879-1960) [sometimes notated as "Espinoza"] moved from Baja, Mexico to El Centro, California in 1903. In 1922, they moved to Tulare County. According to census records, Tomás was a "laborer" who presumably worked in orchards and farms in California's Central Valley. The Cesenas had eight children including Raymond (1912-1969), who enlisted in the military in 1942; Florencio "Frisco" (1914-1987); Pilar Cesena Bishop (1916-2013) a homemaker who married James Elliott Bishop (1899-1999) in 1962; SSGT Thomas (1918-1991) who earned a Bronze Star while in the U.S. Army; Jesus "Jess" (1921-1999) who enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942 in Fresno and was a staff sergeant, and was married with one son; and Jose Maria "Joe" (1929-2003) who was in the U.S. Navy, a Visalia Public Works Department employee, and was married to [Connie] and had four sons, three of which are named Chris, Marc, and Matt. Other members of the Cesena family include: Lupe, Marti, David- a Visalia Public School bus driver, Mary Florence who was married to Richard Krohn and had two children- Dennis and Michael; and Jackie.

1 box (approximately 261 black-and-white photographs; 195 color photographs; 13 postcards; 7 clippings)

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