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A Filipino man poses next to a Ford Model A in the 1930s. Filipino Agricultural Workers Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Large trunks discovered in a basement offer a window into the lives and struggles of early Filipino migrants

Sam Vong, Smithsonian Institution

A trove of century-old belongings − from farm tools to pillowcases − tells the story of Filipinos who migrated to California to build a new life, a journey now honored in a Smithsonian exhibition.

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