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ther recent additions of great interest to the readers are the dissertations on the
Philippines submitted to the various Universities and Colleges in the United States
(in xerographic and acid free reprints from the University Microfilm, Ann Arbor,
Michigan). There are more than 500 of them covering the period l958-l997, all of
which have already been in hardbound copies.
Carte des Isles Philippines, Dressée sur la Carte Espagnole du R.P. Murillo de Velarde (Lopez Museum Map Collection)
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Contemporary learned journals such the Philippine Social Science Review,
l930-l970 with many gaps, the Philippine Studies, l953 to the present,
and the Unitas, l923 up to the present, are quite useful to the readers
interested in specialized topics and other disciplinary areas of study.
With respect to the excellent map collection totaling 356, there are many old maps
providing good coverage of the early world—Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia and Philippine
historical geography. Some fine examples of the rare maps that will delight the
scholars to the crossroad of technology, science and the arts are: Abraham Ortelius,
Indiae orientalis insvlarvmqve adiacentivm typvs, Amsterdam, 1570; Henricus Hondius,
Asia recena suma cura deliniata, 1631; Carolum Allard, Exactissima asiae de lineatio
en praecipaus regiones, caetersq partes divisa et denio in lucem edita per…,
Amsterdam-Batavum, 1710; Antonio Zalta e Figli, Isole Filippine,
Venezia, 1785; and Pedro Murillo Velarde's map of the Philippines dated l749 done
by Nicolas de la Cruz Bagay, a famous Filipino engraver.
The collection of expensive coffee table books has steadily grown over the years.
These are extremely attractive to look at as well as delightful to read about.
Some of the recent publications by the Eugenio Lopez Foundation, Inc. belonging
to this category worthy of note are: Alfredo Roces' Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo,
and the generation of l872, Pasig City, l998; Santiago Albano Pilar's
Juan Luna: the Filipino as painter, Pasig, l980; Helen L. Valmayor's
Orchidiana Philippiniana, in two volumes, Pasig, l984; and
Rod. Paras-Perez's Manansala Nudes, Manila, l990 and
Fernando Zobel, Manila, l990.
The Lopez Museum has a keen eye for the out-of-the-way research materials.
A good case in point is the acquisition of the U.S. Army map collection, depicting
the various sectors—Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao—of the Philippines. The U.S.
military maps on the Philippines are invaluable reference materials for scholars
of geography, demography and historical geography.
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Turn-of-the-century Quiapo district (Photo Collection)
A view of Escolta from across the river Pasig in the early 1900s (Photo Collection)
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Microfilm copies of the Philippine Revolutionary papers or commonly known as the
Philippine Insurgent Records in 646 reels, American Consular Reports l8l7-l898 in
6 reels from the National Archives, Washington, DC. and several reels of the British
Consular Reports, circa 1844-1898, together with the H. H. Bartlett collection in
82 reels from the American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
are among the significant additions to the growing microfilm collection.
The microfilming of the Tribune covering years from l925 to l945,
Manila Chronicle, 1945-1972, Harpers Weekly, b
and other old newspapers has been a completed project carried out by Kodak
Philippines.
The cartoons and caricatures drawn skillfully by Liborio "Gat" Gatbonton are useful
and provide pretty good insights into the leading personalities of the age in which
he lived in. There are about 480 of them in the best state of preservation.
The photographs, numbering more than l0,000 in the collection, form a set of
documents with great potentials and distinct cultural values, being self-contained
images of personages, events and sceneries taken from certain perpective and at
a precise moment in time. The richness of details is one of the important qualities
of the photographic collection taken during the early American regime, the
Commonwealth era and post-independence period up to the Martial Law days.
Recently, Justice Camilo D. Quiason has donated about 500 copies of old photographs
relating to the Spanish-American war of l898 and Philippine-American War, l898-l902.
Another important addition is a gift of photos depicting rustic scenes and ethnic
groups taken during the early American period by former Ambassador Jose Teodoro.
Over the past few decades of the 20th century the Lopez Museum had been a recipient
of valuable resource materials from the heirs of Raymundo Milleza, the grand-daughter
of Friedrich Umbreit, the writer Gilda Cordero Fernando, the late humanitarian
Roberto M. Lopez and the Ateneo de Manila University Library, to mention but a few.
For bibliographies on the Philippines, the most authoritative and extremely helpful
guides to students, librarians and researchers are Dr. Trinidad Pardo de Tavera's
Biblioteca Filipina…, Washington, Government Printing Office, l903;
W. E. Retana's Aparato de bibliografico de historia general de Filipinas…,
Madrid, l903; James Alexander Robertson's Bibliography of the
Philippine Islands, Ohio, Arthur Clark & Co., l908, Shiro Saito's
Philippine Ethnography: A Critically Annotated and Selected Bibliography,
Honolulu, University of Hawaii, 1972 and A. Kohar Rony (compiler),
Philippine holdings in the Library of Congress, 1960-1987: a bibliography,
Washington, Library of Congress, 1993.
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With acknowledgment to Serafin D. Quiason
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