Dalisay Bocobo-Balunsat Filipiniana collection
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Title: Dalisay Bocobo-Balunsat Filipiniana collection
Dates: 1970-1985
Collection Number: SFH 716
Creator/Collector:
Balunsat, Dalisay Bocobo, 1926-2019
Extent: 1 flat box
Repository:
San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco History Center
San Francisco, California 94102
Abstract: Publicity surrounding activities of San Francisco's Filipino Americans.
Language of Material: English
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[Identification of item]. Dalisay Bocobo-Balunsat Filipiniana collection. Collection Number: SFH 716. San Francisco Public
Library. San Francisco History Center
Transferred to San Francisco History Room, SFPL August 26, 1977
Biography/Administrative History
Dalisay (variously "Dolly" or "Daly") Bocobo was born in Pasay City, Philippines in 1926. She married Anthony Padilla Balunsat
in 1953; by 1954 the Balunsats were living in San Francisco. Dalisay worked as a librarian for San Francisco Public Library.
She died in San Francisco in February 2019.
Scope and Content of Collection
Two scrapbooks, titled Cultural Vibrations of a Vital Community, document the 1974 Filipino Cultural Week in San Francisco,
including a San Francisco Public Library Filipiniana exhibition. The smaller scrapbook earned SFPL the 1974 John Cotton Dana
Library Public Relations Award. Both scrapbooks include original correspondence, color and black and white photographs, certificates
and ephemera, along with news clippings and photocopies of originals; the larger scrapbook includes some material dating 1975-1980.
Scrapbooks include copies of Balunsat's column, Stateside Spotlights, published in Philippine News. The box includes one folder
of material donated by Balunsat to the San Francisco History Room, SFPL.
John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award
Filipinos--California--San Francisco Bay Area
Filipino Americans--California--San Francisco
Filipino American women
Filipino writers
San Francisco Public Library--Exhibitions
San Francisco (Calif.)