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RECEIPTS THEN AND NOW. When you buy a car today you are issued an OR (Official Receipt) and CR (not "Comfort Room" but Cer...

RECEIPTS THEN AND NOW.
When you buy a car today you are issued an OR (Official Receipt) and CR (not "Comfort Room" but Certificate of Registration) that indicates the brand, model, year, color of car the plate number etc. The documents shared today are two different receipts.
The one in the MIDDLE and RIGHT date from 1921 when Mariano Dinglasan sold a cow to Anselmo Mercado for 80 pesos. I acquired this from a pile of old documents in an Ermita antique shop for a song, drawn by the ill...

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My Book Signing on Saturday morning October 7 @Holy Angel University, Angeles Pampanga is icing on the cake. Please come and to visit the museum of the Center for Kapampangan Studies and take a peek at the Filipiniana Collection I donated to the university.

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There is something about the gaze of sitters in 19th century studio photographs that is distinct. So different from photos taken...

There is something about the gaze of sitters in 19th century studio photographs that is distinct. So different from photos taken in the 1900s more so in today’s selfies.



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Timeline photos

Honored to be in the Anvil Bestseller list with Nick Joaquin and Lualhati Bautista at the 2023 Manila International Bookfair.



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FAKES & HOAXES FROM PHILIPPINE HISTORY One of three bonga bark manuscripts with Visayan baybayin written in cuttlefish ink ...

FAKES & HOAXES FROM PHILIPPINE HISTORY
One of three bonga bark manuscripts with Visayan baybayin written in cuttlefish ink donated to the National Library in 1913. James Alexander Robertson declared these "the greatest literary find in the Philippines." He believed them to be the only surviving fragments of preSpanish Philippine culture destroyed by Spanish missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries..

These mysterious objects were actually fakes donated by Jose E. Marco who had...

The faces behind: Leonard Wood Road in Baguio (left) and Forbes Park in Makati (right). Leonard Wood was U.S. Governor-general 1...

The faces behind: Leonard Wood Road in Baguio (left) and Forbes Park in Makati (right). Leonard Wood was U.S. Governor-general 1921-1927 William Cameron Forbes was Governor-general 1909-1913. The 1922 Report on Conditions in the Philippines by the Wood-Forbes Mission may be a century old but makes for engaging reading because it shows how much has changed in the last 100 years and how much has also remained the same.
My Inquirer column today on what we can learn from the Wood Forbes Missio...

ROCKWELL today is known for its upscale shopping mall and equally upscale condos. Power Plant Mall is a reference to the former ...

ROCKWELL today is known for its upscale shopping mall and equally upscale condos. Power Plant Mall is a reference to the former thermal plant on the Makati site that operated from 1950-1973. The old Power Plant is history now, just like John C. Rockwell and I'm glad we have a passport photo to connect the Rockwell name with a face.



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Found a prewar photograph of Rizal's notebook in the Library of Congress (Left) that we can compare with its present state (Righ...

Found a prewar photograph of Rizal's notebook in the Library of Congress (Left) that we can compare with its present state (Right).
The ink is corrosive and is earting into the manuscript. There must be a way to arrest the deterioration and conserve this original "Notebook of Various Questions" for future generations.



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Understanding Philippine History through Maps and Visual Arts

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Historian and Humanities Professor Ambeth R. Ocampo was the featured speaker at the September 7 presentation “Rizal, Maps, and the Emergence of the Filipino Nation,” jointly organized by the US-Philippines Society and Sentro Rizal Philippine Embassy Washington DC, in support of the Philippine in...

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See you on October 14 and 21 @Ayala Museum for the ERAS Lectures.

See you on October 14 and 21 @Ayala Museum for the ERAS Lectures.


Look what you made us do 🐍

Ambeth Ocampo comes back stronger than a 90s trend with History Comes Alive: The Eras Lectures!

Get ready as he takes us through the eras of Philippine history through the lens of iconic objects and then through the eras of Juan Luna's life and career.

October 14, 2023 (Saturday) | 3:00-4:30 PM: Cabinet of Curiosities: Eras in Philippine History

October 21, 2023 (Saturday) | 3:00-4:30 PM: The Pursu...