Material from the Lasartemay Family in Berkeley. Cards from the East Bay Negro Historical Society Two Photographs of African American families in the Bay Area in the 1930s and a Post Card from Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay.
63-4078Berkeley CA: Lasartemay Family 1933-1938. Four Cards. 4" x 2.5" from the East Bay Negro Historical Society Very Good. Two B&W Photographs 4.5" x 2.75" of African American families in the Bay Area in the 1930s One Good with creasing and minor stains the other Fair with losses tears staining. Two envelopes one addressed to Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay the other to the East Bay Negro Historical Society. Post Card 5.25" x 3.5" MS Signed from Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay Sept 26 1933 Good with staining.Provenance: Eugene Pasqual & Ruth Hackett Lasartemay Berkeley.Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay 1903-1993. In 1937 he earned a First Assistant Engineer’s license becoming the first licensed black marine engineer to sail from the Port of San Francisco. He was also active in a number of civic religious and historical organizations in Berkeley and Oakland. He was a co-founder of many black organizations in the East Bay including the East Bay Negro Historical Society Berkeley Branch of the East Bay Lodge #44 Men of Tomorrow Inc. Colonel Allensworth State Historical Park Berkeley Branch of the NAACP. He was an active member of the boy scouts serving as a Neighborhood Commissioner and Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop #43 and was awarded the scout’s highest honor - the Silver Beaver Award. He served as president of the United Consumers and Producers East Bay Negro Historical Society vice president of the East Bay Pensioner’s Club of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union and the Berkeley Branch of the NAACP and treasurer of the Fannie Wall Children’s Home of Oakland.Ruth Hackett Lasartemay 1902-1991She worked for 17 years with the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company between 1928-1944. She was active in many civic and women’s clubs in Oakland and Berkeley including the California State Association of Colored Women’s Club Inc. National Association of Negro Musicians Inc. League of Women Voters South Gate Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star and was a co-founder and the first curator of the East Bay Negro Historical Society.Scope and Content of Collection Berkeley, CA: Lasartemay Family, 1933-1938. unknown
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