Chris Mensalvas and Silme Domingo family photograph collection, approximately 1920-1981

Typed on verso of photograph: Enlarged view of same lanai with our home-grown hanging plants..the sting ray at our feet, 100 lbs. The Black cat we tamed from the jungle, has a brother a yellow cutie we named Nicky...not in picture.

Typed on verso of photograph: The "Wild man from Borneo" himself, wearing my tabungao hat and palm raincoat / A natural without shirt and pants- just a muffler between the legs. Tony forgot to wear my calasiao bolo.

Typed on verso of photograph: This one is a puzzler..one shot was taken in our front lanai, and one in my garden, Tony's ghost hiding in front of my opu (belly) and Patsy's ghost peeping with her Philippine hat in background...Little car is our Datsun station wagon

Handwritten on verso of photograph: double-exposure

Typed on verso of photograph: Believe or not Coconut, fruits reaching the ground. We have five trees of da kine [sic] in our yard.

Handwritten on verso of photograph: Same tree was in colored picture

Typed on verso of photograph: A taller Samoan coconut tree - only 10 ft. high, bearing all year round fruit and heavy. Guess who is peeping around the corner..did not make it on time!

Typed on verso of photograph: A Prize shot of PAPAYA TREES growing in abundance around our house. The mighty mountain is just 1,000 ft. back of the house, where sugar cane, bread fruit, plumerias, and bananas abound, Note the clouds gathering up in sky- when it rains here, it pours to last at least five minutes, then sunshine. Topper, the expert climber of papayas, mangoes, mabulos, coconuts, and guavas.

Typed on verso of photograph: Taken in front of living room door leading to the west lanai. One hat is anito hat made by Moros, the other a regular women's nipa hat..below nipa hut is Topper's drawing of a fighting chicken. Note coral in front of Tony, Patsy and Topper dug from the ocean...the fruits, abis, caburao, guavas..and red giner in vase. Carved carabo Patsy holding and Topper serenading.

Handwritten on verso of photograph: Stuffed birds with nest from the Phil. below Topper.

Typed on verso of photograph: THE OLD DON JUAN HIMSELF with his OOkulele...note our floor cement is covered with woven palm mats- hala leaves, very durable- instead of rugs. We have a few small rugs- mostly hala mats for our floors, mostly rattan chairs including our couch.

Handwritten on verso of photograph: Punee couch in picture / Hybiscus flower (state flower) on Home-made coconut vase- back of me.

Typed on verso of photograph: Lomboy party with Tony taken in one corner of our kitchen. Broom in background is Igorot made from wild grass in Philippines...we have two. Tony says they are from the Trino or tanubong grass...very soft, just for inside. Topper wearing Diego Silang hat. Tony ate a lots of Lomboy swallowing seeds.

Handwritten on verso of photograph: Igorot [?] hanging on mirror

Typed on verso of photograph: Tallest building in Honolulu- 25 stories high, right in downtown Honolulu- Only building in the world with a revolving restaurant on top. Adjacent is the Alamoana Shopping Center biggest in US. Irene works on the 14th floor in said building, afew blocks from ILWU Building and close to Waikiki. Tony and I are standing on top of the Shopping Center up and down.

Handwritten on verso of photograph: (2 levels of shops & parking) / Seattle will be second soon, we hear.