Heading: (Philippines)
Author:
Title: Album of Vintage Gelatin Silver Prints from the Philippines
Place Published: [Philippines]
Publisher:
Date Published: [c. 1905]
Description:

Approximately 98 vintage gelatin silver prints, mounted on black leaves with glassine pages. Each captioned and numbered in the negative, some signed 'Shera', and measure 12.3x17.4 cm (4¾x6¾"). (Oblong ) 17.6x24.5 cm (7x10½"), black cloth.

An interesting album created during the American colonization of the Philippines (1898-1941). The album contains fourteen photographs of the chief military base at Cavite, which was the scene of the defeat of the Spanish Fleet by Admiral Dewey in 1898, as well as eight views of of the smaller base at Olongapo. Also included are images often associated with the period of Philippine history: views of Manila, the tribe of 'Negretos', lepers, a chicken fight, military preparations, water buffalo, volcanoes, and various Filippino types and occupations. Several remarkable and disturbing photographs, document the torture of the Filipinos by the American military in a technique then called 'the water treatment'; today this torture is known as 'water boarding'. In fact, in 1902, Senate hearings resulted in the court-martial of Maj. Edwin Glenn for water boarding prisoners in the Philippines.

Light wear to binding, rubbing to spine, dent to bottom left corner of front panel, continuing all the way through; one photograph removed; photographs mostly clean and clear; very good.