Philippine-American War Scrapbook and Ledger Collection

Collection

Identifier: 9999-181

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Philippine-American War scrapbook and ledger collection consists of one book containing newspaper clippings pasted onto the pages of a school ledger. The newspaper clippings, dated from March to June of 1900, document the United States military perspective of the Philippine-American War. Newspaper clippings document battles between U.S. and "rebel" forces, military events and military personnel, death tolls, Manila schools and libraries, economic news relative to the war, and military and civilian crimes in various cities in the Philippines.

The school ledger documents the school registration of individual children in the Manila border towns of Sampaloc, Ermita, and La Miguel from 1890 to 1898. The ledger includes the children's full name, their age, the name of their father and his profession, their school fees, and the date they started their studies. Not all pages are legible, as newspaper clippings were pasted directly on top of the ledger pages.

Dates

Creation: Majority of material found in 1900

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

The copyright interests in some or all of these materials have not been transferred to San Diego State University. Copyright resides with the creator(s) of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. The nature of archival collections is such that multiple creators are often applicable and copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine. In any case, the user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, obtaining publication rights and copyright infringement. When requesting images from Special Collections & University Archives for publication, we require a signed agreement waiving San Diego State University of any liability in the event of a copyright violation.

Historical Note

The Philippine-American War (or Filipino–American War) was fought between the First Philippine Republic and the United States from 1899 to 1902. With the end of the Spansih American War, Spain relinquished ownership of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris. The First Philippine Republic objected to the terms of the treaty and subsequently declared war against the United States on June 2, 1899, seeing the conflict with the United States as a continuation of the fight for independence beginning with the Philippine Revolution in 1896. At least 200,000 Filipino civilians died as a result of the war, though some estimates place the death toll as high as a million. The war ended on July 2, 1902 with a victory for the United States.