These photographs from the collection of Dean C. Worcester are part of a larger collection of ethnographic and geographical docu...

These photographs from the collection of Dean C. Worcester are part of a larger collection of ethnographic and geographical documentation of the Philippines and the Filipinos in the early 1900s. Documentation of the U.S.trying to understand her far-off colony.
I chose these two wondering what it was like for upland Filipinos to encounter new technology for the first time: the phonograph, the motor car, and, of course, hidden from our view, the camera that captured these images.
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