An all-girls class of Igorot pupils pose for a photo in Easter School sometime in the 1920s. Easter School (now Easter College) was the first private school to launch in the Cordillera region. It opened its doors in 1906.
The first batch of pupils were 8 Igorot boys, but the school opened its doors to girls in 1909.
Source: Phil. Heritage Costume and Dress Facebook page
A group of smiling school children, taken in 1960
Soirce: John Tewell Collection- https://flic.kr/p/2oSAxkk
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Stretching across 47 acres, the reservation held over 1,000 native Filipinos who had been brought to the United States expressly for the shock and delight of white fairgoers: in one prominent spectacle, Igorot tribespeople were required to slaughter and eat a dog each morning as visitors looked on. #story #history #philippines
Malolos, Bulacan, 1899
Source: US Library of Congress
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Kennon Road going up to Baguio City (1914)
Source: Recollections of Full Years https://archive.org/details/recollectionsoff00taft/page/204/mode/1up?view=theater
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The Philippine Se Ho Lim Association office in Binondo, the oldest Chinatown in the world (1949)
Source: John Tewell Collection https://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/16575420197
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SS President Coolidge docked at Pier 7, Manila (1934)
Source: Robert L. Pendleton Collection https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsphoto/id/14203/rec/3182
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Film stars Rosa del Rosario and Rogelio Dela Rosa from the 1948 movie 'Bulaklak at Paruparo' (Flower and Butterfly) #film #movies #philippines #history #postwar #philippinehistory #asia
Source: Video 48 https://video48.blogspot.com/2012/03/post-war-tagalog-movies-104-rosa-del.html?m=1
Fruit sellers of Tondo, 1900s
On July 28, 1963, a group of Filipino Boy Scouts died in a plane crash while on their way to the 11th World Jamboree in Marathon, Greece.
When United Arab Airlines Flight 869 (EgyptAir aircraft) Flight 869 crashed into the Arabian Sea as it approached the airport in Bombay (Mumbai), India for a layover, the whole Philippine delegation perished along with the passengers and crew members. http://www.marathon1963.com/04,00.html
