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Photographs of the Philippines featuring historical landmarks and buildings

Description: A group of 23 photographs (3.5 x 5.75 inches or smaller) featuring landmarks and buildings in the Philippines, mostly in Manila, including the Manila Hotel, Old Spanish Gate, Santa Lucia Gate, Jose Rizal monument, Legazpi Garden entertainment facility, aquarium, and palm trees lining Bonifacio Drive. There is also a bird's-eye view of downtown Manila, with several businesses and storefronts visible including a photography and art studio, barber shop, and optician. Of note is a crowd scene of the religious Procession of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila, with the saint figure and cross at center. The photographs are a mixture of snapshots and commercially-produced images from various sources.
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Date: approximately 1910-1920s
Call number: photCL 717
Provenance: Purchased from Fairlook Antiques, October 2023.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
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Photographs of the Philippines featuring historical landmarks and buildings

Visual Materials

A group of 23 photographs (3.5 x 5.75 inches or smaller) featuring landmarks and buildings in the Philippines including the Manila Hotel, Old Spanish Gate, Santa Lucia Gate, Jose Rizal monument, Legazpi Garden entertainment facility, aquarium, and palm trees lining Bonifacio Drive. There is also a bird's-eye view of downtown Manila, with several businesses and storefronts visible including a photography and art studio, barber shop, and optician. Of note is a crowd scene taken during the Procession of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila, with the saint figure and cross at center. The photographs are a mixture of snapshots and commercially produced images from various sources.

photCL 717

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Photographs of a trip to Luzon, Philippines

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Collection of 66 black-and-white gelatin silver photographs and one typed letter. The photographs show scenes of agricultural and natural resource management, group gatherings and performances, a wedding ceremony procession, the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources Bureau of Agriculture Extension, the San Marcos YMCA 4-H Club, a public bath house, temples, Shamrock Drilling Company wells, Santa Monica Rural Reconstruction Center, and more. Throughout the photos there is group of visitors that include men and women, and one white male with a camera that appears often. Seemingly, the group toured the island of Luzon and visited many different municipalities and provinces including Mayantoc, San Manuel in Tarlac, Manila, Lupao, Santa Monica, San Luis, Bulacan, and Aguso in Tarlac City. There is a note reading "Credit Photo Philippines Herald â€“ DMHM - Newspapers" on the verso of seven of the photographs. The collection also includes a typed letter from "Bosley" introducing Tad Szulc from The New York Times, and a business card of Charles Miller (Chas. W. Miller) Camera Shop, Manila.

photCL 766

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Philippine American War photograph albums

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Four photograph albums containing a total of 218 images (chiefly 4.5 x 6.5 inches) of the Philippine American War, taken by an unidentified photographer most likely associated with the 19th U.S. infantry stationed in Cebu, Philippines. Primarily in Cebu with some in San Nicolas and elsewhere, the images document Filipino life and culture as well as U.S. soldiers in military activities and recreation. Three photographs depict the refueling of a hospital ship in Hong Kong, and there are also images of the recruitment of Indigenous soldiers in Puerto Rico, and rare views of the surrenders of Filipino generals Mateo Noriel Luga and Aguedo del Rosario. The photographs are captioned and numbered continuously throughout the four albums. The first album, images 1 to 54, contains mostly detailed panoramas (3.5 x 12 inches) of Cebu and its port, plaza, and bay. The second album, images 55 to 109, contains a range of subjects including the 19th Infantry band baseball team, Filipino homes and families, elaborate Holy Day celebrations in San Nicolas, and several photographs of insurgents and their surrenders. The third album, images 111 to 165, includes church interiors, street and market scenes, and a family identified as "Spaniard and Filipino Mixed Family." The fourth album, images 166 to 218, includes several scenes from the 19th Infantry's training in Michigan, prior to their arrival in the Philippines; interior shots of Colonel Edward J. McClernand's home; a church procession in the streets of Cebu; and the deportation of prisoners to Guam. Some writing in the album reflects racist views toward Filipino and Chinese people.

photCL 712

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Cabinet photograph of a matadero (slaughterhouse) building in Manila, Philippines

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Cabinet card photograph of the front of the slaughterhouse building in Manila, Philippines. The building has a large veranda with "Matadero" displayed in large letters at the entrance. The scene shows people looking in and seated nearby, and horse carts parked out front.

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Album of photographs featuring life, industry, education, and travel in the Philippines

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An album of 70 photographs compiled by an unidentified American man who lived and worked in the Philippines designing and fabricating bridges and buildings. The photographs are accompanied by extensive typed descriptions that document building projects, remains of old Spanish warships, street scenes, churches and houses, crops and vegetation, schools, and many of the native residents. Some images include the Iloilo riverfront with the airing of sugar, a principal industry of that region. The writer/compiler of the album describes living in Iloilo and Cotabato, and refers to work hours spent in the steel shops and at well-drilling sites. He also documents various indigenous peoples and his impressions of their cultures and daily lives. Group photographs of Bagobo men and women near Kidapawan highlight their distinctive clothing and adornment. Other photographs include an American-run Moro boys' school at Kudarangan, an agricultural school, and a snapshot of Dr. Edwin Bingham Copeland, who founded the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture. There is also a photograph of the dedication of the Cotabato Public Hospital in 1916, decorated with American flags and banana palms. Locations include Manila, Cebu, Iloilo, Zamboanga, and Cotabato City.

photCL 678

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Collection of Philippine hemp fiber industry photographs

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After the Philippines became a colony of the United States in 1898, Manila hemp became the nation's most important export item, making up 72% of the nation's total export value. The material was widely used for making rope, twine, paper, bags, shoes, hats, dresses, and other everyday commodities. The collection includes 36 loose photographs. These include images of Filipino workers cultivating, transporting, and processing fibers from hemp plants. Also included are photographs of Filipino and presumably, American workers operating and posing with hemp processing machinery. Other photographs include industrial machines for breaking and spinning fibers, ships for transporting, Henequen plants and Manila trees, Manila hemp fibers hung for drying, Manila hemp seeds, and an image of a native Philippine shelter.

photCL 693

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