Photograph of Four American Soldiers Posing with a Filipino Family in Tanauan During the Spanish-American or Philippine-American War.
San Fernando, Philippines: 1898–early 1900s. Photograph measuring 4 x 5 ¾ inches, on heavy cardstock measuring 5 x 7 inches. Cardstock stamped recto “W. Hirota From Japan San Fernando.” Manuscript verso providing location, year, and names of soldiers. Very good contrast. With stains and wear, overall very good minus. Item #List2992
A photograph of four American soldiers posing with a Filipino family in front of what appears to be a market stall. Several pieces of handwriting on the back of the card identify the men, location, and year; the men are Fred Garland, Edward Finnegan, and Thomas Carroll of “Co ‘G’” and Warren Willis of “Co H.”, though their regiment is not identified. The Filipinos are identified as “native”. The location is placed as “Tanuauan” (Tanauan), a city in the province of Batangas on Luzon, and the year as 1898. However, the year is possibly inaccurate: Tanauan was largely uninvolved in the 1898 Spanish-American war, but it was the site of a “zone of protection”, or “reconcentration” area, during the Philippine-American war, which began in 1899. These areas, which critics described as concentration camps, were locations where non-combatant men, women, and children were confined, so that they could be distinguished from insurgents and so that supplies to insurgents could be cut off.[1]
[1] Christina Twomey, “Reconcentration and the Camp System: The Legacy of the Philippine-American War”, in Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History, ed. Robert Cribb, Christina Twomey, and Sandra Wilson (Brill, 2022), 25–42.
Price: $200.00
Status: On Hold