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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: George L. Gardaya papers
Source:
Michael Brown Rare Books
Creator:
Gardaya, George L., 1902-1968
Identifier/Call Number: M2097
Physical Description:
0.834 Linear Feet
(2 legal manuscript boxes and 1 oversize map folder)
Date (inclusive): 1925-1955
Abstract: The collection includes correspondence, poetry and verse (some in Ilocano), school work including essays, graded papers and
notes, and ephemera. It is comprised of both typescript and manuscript pages. Also in the collection are documents for the
Philippines Cooperative Association in New York.
Some of the material is signed by probable pseudonyms of Gardaya, including Segundo Lagoc Gardaya and Gregory Francis D'Mayo.
Physical Description: Many pages very fragile, poor quality paper.
Language of Material: Primarily in English with some material in Ilocano.
George L. Gardaya (1902-1968), was an emigrant to America from the Philippines. Gardaya was involved in Philippine-American
organizations in New York City. He appears to have been gay or bisexual, and lived with a man named Peter Martinez for a number
of years, though he married a woman later in life. Gardaya was a native of Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte, Philippine Islands and
New York City, New York. Hew was also a student, poet, and Secretary of the Philippines' Co-Operative Association, a.k.a Philamer
House. In 1933 he seems to have founded a perfume company. He used a number of pseudonyms including Segundo Lagoc Gardaya,
Gregory Francis Tamayo, Franz de Mayo, or Gregory Francis D'Mayo.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased in 2015 by Stanford University Libraries.
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization
to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction
beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish
Collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, some partial drafts, some love letters (most to women, but some
are written to men); poetry, verse, and prose presumably written by Gardaya; typed and manuscript pages and documents for
the Philamer Cooperative Association, including about a dozen biographical applications of members, constitution, etc. There
is also a typed copy of the Constitution for the Filipino Club of the Bronx, a worker's organization of the Bronx Hospital,
New York, where Gardaya worked, dated circa 1930s. A play titled "Tongues of Despair: a Drama with a Female Lead," by Gregory
Francis D'Mayo (an apparent pseudonym of Gardaya), which appears to have been submitted to Fox Film Corporation at one point.
School notes, essays, papers, some finished and graded, others drafts, some typed, some school printed forms, all school related,
presumably when Gardaya was attending Cornell and Columbia University, circa 1929-1937. Ephemera (printed, some manuscript),
including brochures, circulars, greeting cards, blue print, map, newspaper clippings, drawings, news- letter, etc.
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Filipino Americans
Gardaya, George L., 1902-1968