Dear Friends, You might find this of interest.
Linda --- Historic Photos of the Philippines Online Resource from the University of Michigan A new online resource, an exhibit entitled, “The Dean C. Worcester Photographic Collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology,” has recently been funded by the University of Michigan's Center for Southeast Asian Studies. The direct link is: webapps.lsa.umich.edu/umma/exhibits/Worcester%202012/index.html >From 1890 until 1913, Dean Conant Worcester (1866-1924) took thousands of photographs of people and places throughout the Philippines. Worcester had first traveled to the region as an undergraduate zoology major in the 1880s on a scientific collecting mission for the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. He returned to the region after he graduated in 1890, this time making zoological collections for the Minnesota Academy of Natural Science. In 1893, Worcester was hired as a lecturer and curator in the University of Michigan Zoology Department and authored a number of scholarly and popular works on the Philippines. When the Philippines came under U.S. control at the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Worcester was recognized as an American expert on the region. He quickly rose to prominence in the colonial government, serving on the first and second Philippine Commissions and then as Secretary of the Interior of the colonial government, a position he held until 1913. Worcester’s fascination with the Philippines was coupled with his fascination and commitment to the relatively new technology of photography. During his time in the region, he and his employees in the Interior Department’s "Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes" took thousands of photos. A passionate imperialist, Worcester used many of his photographs in public lectures and popular articles supporting the colonial mission, and America’s responsibilities to "civilize" the tribal peoples of the Philippines. Others sought to be scientific records, framed through troubling 19th century racial classifications and evolutionary paradigms. ___________________________________________ --- Philippine Expressions Bookshop The Mail Order Bookshop dedicated to Filipino Americans in search of their roots. PO Box 4201, Main Post Office Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274, USA Tel (310) 514-9139 www.philippineexpressionsbookshop.com [email protected] Join Friends of Philippine Expressions Bookshop in FaceBook http://www.linkedin.com/pub/linda-nietes/29/558/7ab Visit the personal page of Linda Nietes in FaceBook ---- "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. We have blazed the trail in promoting Philippine books in America. 2012 marks our 28th year of service to the Filipino American community. Mabuhay. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Filipino Librarians" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians?hl=en.
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