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This archive of photos is part of a project titled,

The United States and its Territories
1870 - 1925: The Age of Imperialism

http://www.hti.umich.edu/p/philamer/

The Digital photographs archive consists of over 2,100 images taken from the following Special Collections Library photograph collections (with their four-letter identifiers):

• Dean C. Worcester (1866-1924), Photographs of the Philippine Islands (PHLA);
• Parker Hitt Photograph Collection (PHLB);
• Manila, Philippines, Collection (PHLC);
• Manila, Philippines, and Environs (slides and photographs) (PHLD);
• Scenes of Philippine History (slides) (also PHLD);
• General John J. Pershing Photograph Collection (PHLE);
• Everett E. Thompson Photograph Collection (PHLF).
• Tiffany Williams photograph collection [photographs];

In general, the images depict Filipinos, buildings, dwellings, and monuments in and around Manila, Filipino political and military leaders, members of American commissions and military units based in the Philippines, and numerous landscape scenes, particularly on Mindanao and in Lanoa Province.