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19363828<p>A wonderfully colorful map of a portion of the Philippines from the very early days of aviation in the country. PATCO the Philippine Aerial Taxi Company was organized in 1930 primarily to fly workers in the gold mining centers of Baguio and Paracale to and from Manila. With the fading of the mining boom in the late 1930s PATCO's fortunes waned; it ceased operations in 1940 and its franchise was assumed by the newly created Philippine Air Line in 1941.</p><p>The map was drawn by D.B. Santos. The cartoon-like illustrations portray a country rich in natural resources and agricultural hunting and fishing activities including a man spearing a shark from an outrigger canoe. The illustrations are very reminiscent of the style of Ruth Taylor White who coincidentally visited the Philippines in 1930 and produced <em>A Cartograph of the Major Philippine Islands. "The Riviera of the Orient."</em> in that year.</p><p>A delightful and uncommon pictorial map.</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> Printed color map. Folded as issued with a bit of extraneous creasing. Wear at some fold lines including short separations in the blank margins. Very small fold intersection breaks in two spots. Overall good.</p><p>ICN 7816.</p> PATCO Air Lines
19503741Philippines 1950. Very good. Thirty-one original photographs each measuring 4 x 5 inches. Minor wear and dust soiling. Mostly sharp clean images. Fascinating group of over thirty candid photographs depicting Philippine settlers and their homes on the large southern island of Mindanao just after World War II. Over half over these show settlers and their homes in the Panguantucan and Nabaliwa areas of Bukidnon province in the center of the island as wells as images of coffee and soybean farms a poultry enterprise rural roads and bridges and more. Additional photographs show similar scenes in Lanao del Sur also on Mindanao and a few in the Tinambac municipality of the more central Camarines Sur province -- farmers with their products by the road agricultural families at work a plant nursery and settlers' children in the fields. Mindanao is one of the principal centers of agricultural production in the Philippines and the island was subject to a series of resettlement efforts across the 20th century by both colonial and independent governments aimed at increasing production. The photos are captioned in manuscript in English on the versos and scattered images of crude roads and construction equipment suggest that these images were taken by a U.S. Army engineer or a private contractor after the war. unknown
1945List2748Philippines 1945. Single letter; five 8.5 x 11†pages. Pinhole at top of first page missing final pages overall fine. The unknown author of this letter was an American Jesuit missionary in the Philippines who before the war was a novice living in Novaliches just outside Manila. He apparently had not written a significant letter home for a long time: in this letter written in April of what is likely 1945 he recounts his experiences from between December 8 1941 and early January of 1945 shortly before the civilian POW camp in which he was interned was liberated.<br /> <br /> After the “Nips†bomb Pearl Harbor “A feverish month ensuedâ€:<br /> <br /> “We proceeded to put the Community on ‘war-time alert’ with all hands occupied in digging air-raid trenches camouflaging our fortress-like house with a garlanded roof and mud-daubed walls; grain supplies were rushed in against the hour of need. We felt that all it might take Uncle Sam all of six months to put an end to the efforts of the pretender.â€<br /> Around Christmas they evacuated to the Jesuit Ateneo Grade School then in Intramuros as the Japanese were advancing quickly towards Novaliches. Of course this did not prove to be much safer:<br /> <br /> “When darkness came the Japs began their bombing of the Port Area. The bombs began to bounce off the pavement; bombers just skimming our roof-top on their way. We spent the night on our tummies and how we prayed. We thought that each decade of the beads would be our last this side of Purgatory. . When the church sto Domingo was hit the floor beneath us did some tricks and we were lifted up a bit and let down amidst the dust and smoke that poured in from above.â€<br /> <br /> The missionaries try to “salvage important papers and other valuables from the Mission House prior to abandoning it to the fire which threatened the entire Walled City.†During this time they and “a thousand refugees†live in the Ateneo while “Dawn and night raids were supplied by the Japs with nary an American plane to say to them no†– American forces had taken a serious hit and withdrawn outside Manila. It was declared an open city before “the little scrawny but arrogant Japs came into the city and took over†in January of 1942.<br /> <br /> The missionaries persuade the Japanese to let them stay in the Ateneo:<br /> <br /> “We convinced them that it was impossible for us to give up the building because it belonged to the Pope and the Vatican State would hold us responsible. This argument with many ingenious trimmings enabled us to hold on to the Ateneo until June ‘43 when the main building was taken for a military hospitalâ€.<br /> <br /> The author describes how despite what he calls his “partial internment†in Manila he is able to get around checkpoints by pretending to be Belgian. He finishes his studies and begins work at a Belgian convent in Paranaque in February of 1943 living between there and Manila:<br /> <br /> “Incidentally none of this would have been possible if the Japs had gumption enough to find out that I was one of the hated Americans. . All vehicles were obliged to stop here a checkpoint at Baclaran and all passengers get down and file between a Jap sentry and a Filipino constabulary soldier to be searched for hidden arms etc. Since several Belgian Fathers not considered enemy aliens frequently passed this way I was able to walk through unmolested as an unoffending Belgian. . I carefully kept my helmet covering the tell-tale red arm-band which was worn on the arm furtherest away from the Jap. The Filipino would do no more than give me a knowing grin.â€<br /> <br /> On July 10 1944 all of the American civilian POWs are taken to internment camps in Santo Tomas and then Los Baños. In Los Baños the POWs cut wood repair roads and farm. Los Baños would be liberated in February of 1945; the author paints a slightly confusing picture of the leadup to this:<br /> <br /> “Conditions generally ‘worsened’ when on Jan. 8th about the time that the American troops landed at Mindero an island just across from Batangas the Japs got jittery believing that the Yanks were going to do the obvious and cross over the bay to Batangas and they the Japs at Batanga decamped! ‘You are free but remain in camp until the Americans come. Outside your camp Japanese troops will shoot any who leave.’ Great was the joy in Mudville. From nowhere came flag poles on which we quickly unfurled American and British flags .; a short-wave radio was set up and we enjoyed daily Frisco broadcasts .â€<br /> <br /> It sounds as if the missionary was reporting contrary to the usual narrative of the Los Baños raid that the Japanese had essentially given up control of the camp and were like the prisoners simply waiting for the Americans to come get their people. Perhaps something further happened in the nearly two intervening months; however the remainder of the letter is missing.<br /> <br /> Of interest to scholars of modern Jesuit history and of the civilian POW experience during the Second World War. unknown
1945204557U.S.A.: Mem-O-Map Co. 1945. Colour pictographic / pictorial map 32.1 x 23.8 cms; 35.4 x 26.6 cms sheet very good condition. Rare pictorial map published in 1945 by John G. Drury aTechnical Officer who served with the 214th Ordnance Battalion to mark the end of World War II as souvenirs for the military. Military personnel could fill in banners "came in on good ship." and "departed on good ship." their name organisation and "Line of Advance or movement" blank in this example. Pictographs mark various memorable spots and wildlife including larger-than-life insects. A "Terrible Tillie Typhoon" looms over the coast at Luzon. <br>Drury published a series of five maps: Philippines and Okinawa in 1945; Japan and Korea Oahu and Europe in 1946. They are all scarce. “These almost whimsical maps are designed to support the creation of personalised geographies. At a time when digital mapping is beginning to experiment with the creation of personalised content that would render the same map in different ways for different users Mem-O-Maps demonstrate the principle in action." Kenneth Field ICA Commission on Map Design. . Mem-O-Map Co. unknown
1898231701898. Stereoview archive documenting the rapid overseas deployment of American troops at the moment the Spanish American War gave way to a longer and more revealing imperial presence in the Philippines. This archive marks the transition from the 1898 defeat of Spain to the far more sustained American military occupation that followed. After the U.S. victory over Spain the Treaty of Paris transferred the Philippines to the United States for $20 million. This resulted in a battle between American forces and Filipino nationalists under Emilio Aguinaldo in February 1899 when Filipino hopes for independence collided with the reality of a new colonial ruler. This collection of photos preserves the process of colonialism through troop deployment provisioning medical treatment and the routines of military presence.<br /> Archive of 19 stereoview cards most published by B. W. Kilburn and James M. Davis centered on American military activity in the Philippines with additional views from Puerto Rico Cuba and the United States. Each measure 3.5" x 7". The core of the images remain in Philippine occupation; "The 17th Infantry crossing the river P.I." shows movement through tropical terrain; "Our Volunteers awaiting orders under the tropical sun in the Philippines" captures the idleness and bodily strain of expeditionary service; "2nd Division Hospital established in Angeles Church P.I." reveals improvised medical infrastructure inside a colonial religious building; "Dealing out pork and beans to the Oregon Volunteers P.I." appears in multiple variants and preserves the logistics of feeding American troops in camp; and "The Insurgent House of Congress on Fire Malolos P.I." places the war directly in relation to the destruction of Filipino political institutions. The remaining cards broaden that story outward: "Troop D 5th U.S. Cavalry lining up for dinner Mayaguez P.R." points to U.S. military operations in Puerto Rico; "Modern Krupp Gun Morro Castle Havana Cuba" preserves the Spanish imperial military landscape at Havana just as U.S. power displaced it; and the exhibition drill cards including "The Little Commodore" Boston '98 and "Grand Stand Exhibition Drill Boston '98" connect the overseas war to patriotic spectacle and military display at home. Stereographs were a common late nineteenth century format for circulating military imagery and was used to render mobilization and drill into mass-viewed visual media. <br /> Minor toning edge wear and rubbing; images and printed captions remain legible; overall very good condition. This collection preserves the American campaign in the Philippines not as abstract policy but as a contemporary visual record of how troops were deployed housed fed and sustained while the United States transformed victory over Spain into colonial rule in the Pacific. unknown
