Philippine Studies

Lucien Darden Atkins papers (1902-1961), including materials related to his time as an officer of the Philippine Constabulary. Scott-England collection, (1874-1938), including materials from Lloyd England's time with the US Third Cavalry Artillery in the Philippines. Wright family papers (1913-1953), including letters from Vance Wright as a soldier in the Philippines.

Papers (chiefly 1898-99) relating to the insurrection led by Aguinaldo. Includes several communications by Aguinaldo, military orders, instructions and appointments, a few legal papers, and documents pertaining to the revolutionary government.

Papers of John Jacob Swayer (1878-1929), including correspondence with and photos of his daughter, Anna M. Sawyer Hargis, a dentist who practiced in the Philippines.

Oral history of Salvador Araneta, Filipino nationalist, politician and politician.

Papers of U.S. officers and diplomats connected to service in the Philippines. The Philippine guerrilla warfare collection (1941-1945). U.S. military commission documents pertaining to the trial of Seiichi Chta, Mariano Uyeki, and Tomoyuki Yamashita for war crimes in the Philippines during World War II. Papers of Alvin H. Scaff (1949-1954) regarding his internment and materials related to the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan.

Includes materials of Filipino revolutionary Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (1883-1899), as well as several U.S. officers who served in the Philippines.

Philippine manuscript collection including correspondence, documents, official communications of provincial and local military and civil officers of the Philippine Republic. Peirce family (1856-1896) papers, including extensive correspondence with Manila-based hemp dealer George H. Peirce. Papers related to World War II and Japanese internment camps in the Philippines.

Verne Dyson (1830-1962) papers, including materials on Philippine education and history.

Bernard Moses (1875-1915) papers, U.S. Commissioner in the Philippines.

Colorado Volunteers collection, including correspondence, muster roll of Company H, court-martial record of Thomas A. Conway, proclamations of Emilio Aguinaldo, programs, and other papers, relating to the 1st Regt., Colorado Volunteer Infantry, and its service during the Spanish American War and Philippine Insurrection. Benjamin Franklin Stapleton (1871-1951) papers, including relating to Stapleton's service in the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection with the 1st Infantry, Colorado Volunteers.

Contains the papers of African-American Walter Howard Loving, most famous for organizing the Philippine Constabulary Band.

Contains the Ash, Mills, and Maus collections. Primary involves medical and public health records in the Philippines. Both the Mills and Maus collections have online finding aids, while the Ash collection does not.

Materials primarily pertaining to the history of American scientists, with some materials on scientific research in the Philippines. Full finding aids are available online.

Papers of Walter Howard Loving (1872-1983), founder of the Philippine Constabulary Band.

Several collections with material touching on the Philippines, including geologist and geographer Herbert E. Gregory (1873-1953), soldier Frederick C. Jackson (1898-1902), ethnologist Albert Francis Judd (1903-1934), and geographer Timothy W. West (1976-1980).

Transcript of soldier James E. Jewell's diary of his military service with the First Idaho Volunteers in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

Materials from several missionaries to the Philippines, including Ruth Elliott (1910-1981), Helen Nowack Frame (1983), Donald Anderson McGavran (1917-1976), and several missionary organizations including the Mission Aviation Fellowship (1944-1969) and SEND International (1943-1989).

Philippine manuscripts collection (1558-1903). Includes material relating to Indian affairs, Moro wars, Sangleys, native missions as well as those of China, Japan, and the Marianas, church-state conflicts, schools, hospitals, foundations, taxation, customs, trade, monopolies, agriculture, and Spanish imperial problems involving Dutch and British ambition for footholds in the Philippines.

Charles Henry Cunningham collection, including materials on Spanish administration of the Philippines.

Bruce Lesher Kershner (1891-1946) papers, including materials relating to his time as a missionary in the Philippines.

Frank N. Letters (1898-1936) letters from his service in the Philippines during the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection.

Reece A. Oliver papers, including letters describing his activities as a teacher in the Philippines (1914-1930s), effects of World War I on the islands, and conditions in the Philippines before and after World War II. Also additional collections of US army officers serving in the Philippines during World War II.

Includes papers of former U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, Paul Vories McNutt (1899-1955).

John B. McClelland (1917-1986) papers, including materials on his agricultural education work in the Philippines.

John D. Bulkeley (1928-1960) papers, including materials related to his service in the Philippines and the evacuation of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and President Manuel Luis Quezon from Negros island. Thomas Jefferson Davis papers (1916-1947), including materials from his service in the Philippines as aide-de-camp to Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

Materials, including sound recordings and photographs, on the Philippine American War and the Bataan Death March.

Correspondence of Stanley Powell, including letters from the Philippines during World War II.

Papers of botanist Oakes Ames (1897-1932), including materials on orchids in the Philippines.

Papers of Gregorio Aglipay Cruz y Labayan (1930-1940), founder of Iglesia Filipina Independiente.

Oakes Ames (1874-1950) manuscripts on orchids in the Philippines.

Papers of W. Cameron Forbes (1900-1946), governor-general of the Philippines 1909-1913.

Peabody (Henry W.) & Company (1867-1957) records, including material on the hemp trade in the Philippines.

George W. Garside collection (1932-1940) with matieral on his time as a prisoner of war in the Philippines and Japan during World War II.

Includes army officer Clarence Ransom Edwards (1879-1937) papers on his service in the Philippines, and U.S. senator Henry Cabot Lodge (1745-1966) papers, including material on the Spanish American war and the occupation of the Philippines.

Logbooks and documents related to merchant and whaling ships, many of which conducted business in the Philippines.

Sommer, Jane (1964-1966) letters describing life and work as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines.

A rich collection of manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs, primarily focusing on Michigan citizens and University of Michigan alumni in the Philippines. Highlights include the Frank Murphy papers, who served as governor-general and High Commissioner to the Philippines.

The Burton Historical Collection contains four soldiers' accounts of their time in the Philippines. All four of the papers pertain to Frank Murphy's service in the Philippines. Two of these papers (Edward G. Kemp and Joseph Edward Mills) have online finding aids, while two do not (Hester Everard letters and Norman H. Hill papers).

The Dean C. Worcester Collection consists of more than 4,700 glass plate photographic negatives and prints taken in the Philippines between 1890 and 1913, by Dean C. Worcester and colleagues. Worcester was an avid photographers, and he and his staff took nearly 16,000 photographs between 1890 and 1913 documenting indigenous Philippine communities and traditional life ways as well as activities of the colonial administration.

The Van Wylen Library at Hope College contains a number of manuscripts pertaining to missionary work in the Philippines during the 20th century. Can be found in the Digital Commons.

The William L. Clements Library contains a number of manuscripts of American accounts of time in the Philippines. The majority of these materials can be found online through the Manuscripts Division, however a number of materials are uncataloged. Highlights include the Mary Alice Foley papers and the Schlereth family collection detailing internment life at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila.

This collection contains over seventeen hundred books, manuscripts, and photographs of various areas of Philippine history. Emphasis is placed on the period between 1899 and 1913. The collection was started by Dean C. Worcester, former member of the United States Philippine Commission and secretary of the interior for the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands.

Collection contains letters between family members primarily dealing with family concerns. Porter's letters from his time in the Philippines during the American occupation (1920-1912) might be of interest to researchers. His letters describe dissatisfaction with army life, as well as the army's attempts to quell native uprisings.

Letters which pertain to Mr. Schoonmaker's service during the Spanish-American War and in the Philippines. Also contains 23 photographs.

Although the Northville Historical Society has limited hours and requires an appointment, the Thayer family papers might be of interest to a Philippine Studies scholar. The papers contains correspondence from a family member in the Philippines during the early 20th century.

Tena Holkeboer (1920-1963) papers, including material on Reformed Church in America missionary work in the Philippines.

Austin Craig, Jr. (1872-1949) papers, including material on his teaching at the University of the Philippines and the University of Manila, José Rizal, the history of the Philippines. Hunt family (1710-1902) papers, including a diary by a U.S. officer serving in the Philippines. Journalist Edmund P. Neill (1898-1899) papers on his time stationed in the Philippines during the Spanish American War. Army officer La Roy S. Upton (1887-1927) papers, describing life stationed in the Philippines.

William Edward Brougher (1906-1964) papers, including material on the Luzon Campaign and prisoner of war reports from the Philippines during World War II. Historian Dorris Clayton James (1750-1976) papers, including lots of source material related to James' biography of General Douglas MacArthur.

Includes materials regarding missionary work in the Philippines.

Papers of several Foreign Service officers and government officials who served in the Philippines or on the Philippine War Damage Commission during the Truman administration.

Several collections of papers of U.S. servicemen, officers, administrators, and nurses stationed in the Philippines during the Spanish American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and World War II.

James Worden Pope papers, (1897-1917) including a typescript diary chronicling his journey from San Francisco to Manila in the Philippines and the Spanish-American War.

Personal letters by Thomas A. Hendrick, written 1903-09 during his tenure as first American Roman Catholic Bishop of Cebu, Philippines.

Several collections featuring material about the Philippines, including papers of Carl Remington (1899-1905), second American Governor-General of the Philippines.

Gerow Dodge Brill (1884-1924) papers, including material on his work as an agricultural economist with the Dept. of Public Instruction in the Philippine Islands. Cornell-Los Baños contract records, including materials on life and work in Los Baños, Philippines.

Philologist Carlos Everett Conant (1914-1915) papers on Philippine dialects. Obadiah Rich collection of colonial Latin American manuscripts and transcripts, including papers related to the discovery and conquest of the Philippines. 3 collections of U.S. servicemen stationed in the Philippines during Spanish American War and World War II.

Frank Charles Laubach (1896-1973) papers, on his time as a missionary and a promoter of literacy in the Philippines. Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon (1898-1937), including material from his time as war correspondent during the Spanish American War.

Assorted material on U.S. military involvement in the Philippines, including Walter Krueger (1899-1963) and Robert Henry Hall (1860-1915) papers.

Elwell Stephen Otis (1856-1928) papers, including related to his time as Military Governor of the Philippines.

Papers of U.S. army servicemen serving in the Philippines during the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection, particularly from the 1st and 3rd Nebraska Infantry units.

Edward Earle Bomar(1757-1942) papers: letters of 1931-35 give information on political events in Manila. Robert L. Eichelberger (1728-1984) papers, including materials on the military campaigns he led in New Guinea and the Philippines during World War II (1942-1945). Lyman Walter Vere Kennon (1863-1917) papers, including materials on his service in 1899 as Military Governor of the Philippines. James Alexander Robertson (1568-1939) papers, including information on politics in the Philippines in the early 20th cent., religion in the islands, the administration of the Philippine Library in Manila, and U. S. control of the Philippines. Manuel Sastrón (1893-1900) papers, Correspondence and other papers relating to the U. S. occupation of the Philippine Islands, collected by Sastrón who was president of the Spanish Board of Liquidation for the transfer of the Philippine Islands to the U.S.. Alexander Russell Webb (1892) papers, Chiefly journals of Webb's first months of missionary work after his resignation as U.S. consul in Manila.

Several collections from soldiers stationed in the Philippines during the Philippine Insurrection and World War II.
Leonora Febre (1941-1945) papers, describing her life as a Filipino refugee from the Japanese during World War II. Elizabeth Gordan Griffin (1918-1969) including materials pertaining to Griffin's internment by the Japanese at Los Banos and conditions of civilian internees there and at Santo Tomas and Manila during World War II. Edgar Ralph Rankin (1945-1950) papers, describing his transpacific voyage, farming practices and life styles of Filipinos, and the countryside around Camp O'Donnell, Luzon Island. Edmund J. Lilly (1941-1974) papers, relating chiefly to Lilly's experiences during World War II in the Philippines and Japan as soldier and prisoner, describing battle of Bataan, Bataan death march, Japanese treatment of prisoners of war, liberation of prisoners, and hanging of Japanese Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita.

Lacey Company (1898-1958) papers, Correspondence, ledgers, journals, and financial records, of a timberland acquisition company, operating, among others places, in the Philippine Islands.

Annie Laurie Burton (1942-1949) papers, including materials related to her work as a Red Cross field officer in the Philippines. U.S. serviceman Laurie C. Nichols' diary (1899-1901) of his time serving during the Philippine American War.

Collections of U.S. officers stations in the Philippines and U.S. politicians involved in Philippine issues.

Several collections with material related to the Spanish American War and Philippine Insurrection.

2 collections of papers from U.S. army personnel stationed in the Philippines during the Philippine Insurrection. Also papers of
Francisco Robles (1898-1899), a priest serving during the Spanish American War.

Manuscript collection including 6 typewritten extracts about friars from official reports of the U. S. Philippine Commission

Papers of Guy Potter Benton (1892-1956), president of the University of the Philippines (1921–1925)

U.S. ambassador to the Philippines William Edwards Stevenson (1943-1961) papers. U.S. Army officer John Henry Beacom (1877-1917) papers, including documents (1899-1902) captured from Filipino insurrectionists. Dutton family (1911-1984) papers, including materials on Philip Drew Dutton's activities as a teacher at Silliman University in the Philippines (1950-1952).

Carl B. Eschbach (1941-1946) papers, related to his work as a United Brethren missionary in the Philippines and his activities at Japanese internment camps during World War II.

William C. Flocken papers, primarily concerning his experiences on the island of Luzon, Philippines during the Philippine-American War. Other collections related to the Philippine-American War and U.S. operations in the Philippines.

Several collections with correspondence and other materials related to missionary work in the Philippines.

Military and U.S. servicemen papers related to the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection.

Officer of the Philippine Constabulary. Diaries, personnel file, recollections, manuals, and Philippine language dictionaries (Tagalog and Ilocano).

Collections of U.S. servicemen stationed in the Philippines during the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection.

Extensive number of collections, including those related to the U.S. administration, teaching, and missionary work in the Philippines, as well as the Spanish American War.

James A. Bancker (1842-1849) Letters, including letters on a trip to the Philippines. Victor George Heiser (1894-1966) Papers, including material on the establishment of the leper colony in the Philippines. Robert Cushman Murphy (1912-1960) Journals, including zoological study in the Philippines.

Collections of U.S. army officers John Rutter Brooke (1753-1903) and Charles E. Longden (1898-1900), stationed in the Philippines, as well as material of naval officer
John Rodgers (1791-1885) on Perry's expedition to the Philippines.

Collections of several Presbyterian missionaries to the Philippines. Papers of Arthur Leroy Carson (1899-1960), president of Silliman University.

Numerous collections papers from U.S. soldiers serving in the Philippines during the Spanish-America War, the Philippine Insurrection, and World War II.

Roy C. Hilton papers (1940-1946), including materials on the Philippine campaign during World War II and the Bataan death march. Richard H. McMaster diary (1899-1901), including entries on his time as a member of Light Battery G, 6th Artillery in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

Several collections of U.S. army and navy officers stationed in the Philippines during the U.S. occupation and World War II.

Lyman C. Ogilby papers, (1958-1970) including essays and addresses written by Ogilby while bishop of the Philippines, concerning the role of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.

Diary and other materials of Edgar Slaughter Gable (1941-1946) regarding his time in Cabanatuan Prison Camp in the Philippines during World War II.

Paul E. Bellamy (1899-1955) and Albert S. Frost (1882-1922) papers, with material related to their service in the Philippines during the Spanish American War.

War of 1898 stereoscopic picture collection, including 22 stereoscopic pictures showing 17 views of Philippine and American troops in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War of 1898.

Papers of John Ephraim Thomas Milsaps (1750-1930), including material on his service as a chaplain in the Philippine Islands during the Spanish American War.

Steed collection (1568-1822), including documents relating to the conquest and administration of Spanish America and the Philippines.

Audio interview with Berdine Adams (1900-2000) and diary of Edward Charles Hendricks (1942-1945), both concerning their time spend as prisoners of war in Japanese internment camps in the Philippines.

William Edwin Dyess (1916-1976) papers, including account of his service in the Philippines during World War II and experience as a prisoner of war on the Bataan death march.

Hattie Rilla Brantley, including photographs and other material related to her service in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II, and subsequent imprisonment by the Japanese.

George Charles Felix Butte (1897-1932) papers, including related to his service as Governor and Supreme Court Justice in the Philippines. Archivo General de Indias papers, including materials related to Spanish administration in the Philippines.

Papers of U.S. soldiers stationed in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War and World War II.

James J. Halsema was the son of E.J. Halsema, the colonial mayor of Baguio. During World War II, Halsema was captured and incarcerated in the interment camp at Camp Holmes, where he was tortured by Japanese forces. The collection is comprised of over three thousand books, two thousand maps, and the personal papers of James J. Halsema.

Collections of U.S. army officers and departments, most notably General Douglas MacArthur, related to US operations in the Philippines.

Several collections featuring papers and materials from U.S. military personnel stationed in the Philippines during World War II.

Several collections from U.S. servicemen stationed in the Philippines during the Spanish American War and World War II. William Mellard Connor (1908-1945) papers, on Philippine law and serving as attorney of Moro and Manila Province. George Alexander Kerr (1927-1936) papers, relating to the Philippine Cutch Corporation and to the Philippine economy and government.

Eben Swift (1872-1925) and Samuel Dickerson Rockenbach (1889-1945) papers, including material related to their service in the Philippines.

Dean C. Worcester papers, 1881-1925, including biographical material, correspondence, reports of trips in the Philippines (1901-1910), journals (1913), pamphlets and books, and photographs.

William Reed letters (1898-1899), relating to his service with Company D, 1st Idaho Infantry, U.S. Volunteers, in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

Major F.V. Berger papers (1888-1945) including letters describing his service in Manila during the Spanish American War.

Several collections of U.S. servicemen serving in the Philippines during the Philippine Insurrection. Filipino author Carlos Bulosan (1916-1956) papers, including short stories, plays, poetry.

James Francis Smith (1896-1928) papers, relating to his time as army officers and Governor (1906-09) of the Philippines. Other collections of soldiers serving in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War and World War II.

The online exhibit brings together research and teaching materials collected by Wisconsin faculty and staff, as well as unique or valuable items held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries pertaining to Southeast Asia. Collections of interest are the E. Murray Bruner Philippine Image Collection, the Liberato Picar Philippines Military Academy Album, the Library of Congress Philippines Image Collection, and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Image Collection.

This collection contains personal narratives of various soldiers from Wisconsin during the Spanish-American and Filipino-American War. A full finding aid is available online.

The Wisconsin Historical Society contains a number of genealogical documents of Wisconsin citizens who spent time in the Philippines. Of interest to researchers would the Jane Theresa Taylor photograph collection, which documents her activities as an Army nurse at the Mission Hospital in Davao, Mindanao, Philippines (ca. 1911-1918).

Consists primarily of correspondence, most of which is between family members. The majority of the family correspondence is letters from Charles King to his wife and daughter Carolyn about daily matters, his involvement in the Indian War of the American West and the Philippines, and battles with Native Americans.

Albert Stevens Crockett (1903-1961) papers, including a journal of his 1913 trip to the Philippines. Various collections of military officers serving in the Philippines.

Frank Merrill Caldwell (1890-1905.f) papers, relating to his service in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection.

Bataan death camp survivor Hubert B. Gater (1945-1979) papers and diary. Meredith B. Givens (1929-1976) papers, including materials on economic development in the Philippines.