Retrato: Filipiniana Photo Collection - Compiled Threads

[Animo]

Filipinas Heritage Library: http://www.filipinaslibrary.org.ph/filipiniana/Retrato/

Philippines "Then" and "Now" Photos (Parte I-IV):

Parte I: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=176939

Parte II:http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...=268402&page=1

Parte III: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=297314

Parte IV: http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread...=314203&page=1

Old Photos of the Philippines (American and Spanish Era):

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...=106973&page=1

Wartime Philippines: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...=109967&page=1

[Lili]

It's good to create this thread @Animo so that those precious Philippines 'Then and Now' photos do not get lost and buried in the Archived threads. It's easier to tap this thread.

There are some more 1800s photos posted by @Paulkrps not included in the links.

[Animo]

Originally Posted by Lili

There are some more 1800s photos posted by @Paulkrps not included in the links.

No problem. The other thread is almost on its limit and dizflip asked about those links. Which thread was that?

[Animo]

Antonio Luna is better known as the brash and abrasive general of Aguinaldo`s who was murdered by the presi-dential guard. But before he came to the Filipino War of Independence, he was an important prppa-gandist. He continued to write for La Solidaridad as "Taga-ilog" through most of its duration..



Eduardo de Lete, a Philippine-born Spaniard, was an early arrival in Europe. Belonging to the less radical representatives of Filipino interests in Spain, his editorship of Espana en Filipinas turned it into a tame reformist paper. He was considered part of the Propaganda Movement but was not well liked by its more important members.



Graciano Lopez Jaena was one of the early Filipino voices in Spain. After writing "Fray Botod" which satirizes the friars, he had to flee to Spain to escape their ire. From 1880, he devoted himself to attacking the friars and to seeking reforms in the way the colony was ruled. He founded "Revolucion" a masonic lodge open to Filipinos. He was the first editor of the propagandist newspaper La Solidaidad.

[Animo]

Jose Ma. Basa, a bitter enemy of the friars, Basa was exiled to the Marianas in the wake of the Cavite Mutiny of 1872. He later setup base as a merchant in Hong Kong from where he smuggled into the Philip-pines materials produced by the propagandists in Spain. Copies of Rizals` Noli me tangere and issues of La Solidaridad were brought in through his efforts. On establishing Indios Bravos, Rizal asked Basa to arrange that various people be at his disposition "to foster the ends of the society, such as the propagation of instruction in our country."



Marcelo H. del Pilar, founder of Diariong Tagalog (1882) and a prominent editor of La Solidaridad (1889), del Pilar was one of the more important propagandists. He was the de facto leader of the Filipino colony in Spain. A fierce critic of the government and of the friars even while in the Philippines, del Pilar had to go on exile in 1888 to distance himself from an arrest order for his political activities. He died on July 4, 1896, shortly after years of dedicated work in Spain towards reforms in his country.



Juan Luna was one of the early group of painters trained in Europe whose themes and style broke away from the conventions of religious painting in the Philippines.

A skilled realist, his spolarium earned him the gold medal in the 1884 exposition in Spain. His achievement was celebrated by the Propagandists as a proof of how Filipino genius can stand to the talents of Europe.

[Animo]

Mario Ponce was an unsung workhorse of the Propaganda Movement. He was business manager of La Solidaridad and starting 1891 a regular contributor to the paper under the pseudonyms Naning, Kalipulako, and Tigbalang. He decided to abandon his medical studies in favour of working for the movement.



Maximo Viola finished his medical studies in Barcelona. He was a wealthy scion who funded the printing of the Noli me tangere. He was deeply involved in the Propa-ganda Movement and was a close aassociate of Rizal.



Miguel Morayta, a spanish anti-clerical free thinker, professor at the Universidad Central de Madrid and a prominent figure in the Republican party. He was the president of the Asociacion Hispano-Filipina. Although many of the propagandists did not want to do anything with him, he was a friend and supporter of Marcelo H. del Pilar. He was also instrumental in the founding of the Masonic movement in the Philippines

[Animo]

Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanchez, SJ; Rizal`s favorite professor, taught him Rhetoric, Geometry, French, Latin and Greek. He was key to the development of Rizal`s literary abilities. In 1892, Fr. Sanchez was assigned to Dapitan where Rizal was in exile. Rizal and Fr. Sanchez worked on common projects. They taught children on Sundays, undertook scientific explorations, and built a relief-map of Mindanao in the town plaza.



Pedro Paterno was among the students who arrived in Spain before 1880. He saw his writings as expressions of Filipino creativity. In his attempt to extol the Filipino charakter, he published highly exaggerated descriptions of pre-Hispanic civilisation.



Valentin Ventura came to Barcelona in 1881. He did not believe in the idea of a propaganda paper based ubroad and believed that enough had been done in and out of the Philippines to convince the Spaniards to grant reforms if they were so inclined. His funds were crucial in the completion of the printing of El Filibuterismo.

[Animo]

Ferdinand Blumentritt

This Austrian schoolmaster became Rizal`s intellectual brother. He wrote many articles on the Philippines some of which were ethnographic studies. His voluminous correspondence with Rizal reveals his extensive scholarly interest in things Philippine.

His friendship and relationship with Rizal and their intellectual debates are very wide and exemplified illustrated on the austrian webpages Rizal-Blumentritt Friendship.

Link: http://www.univie.ac.at/Voelkerkunde...fi/fblumen.htm

[Animo]

Filipinos prisoners of war in Old Manila. Philippine Islands.
Spanish-American War


Filipino Home


Rosario Street and Binondo Church from the Pasig River, Manila, Philippine Islands.


A Prince and Four of his Slaves. Philippine Concession.


Filipino police, once insurgents, now faithful servants of Uncle Sam, Manila, Philippine Islands.

[Animo]

The old world and the present.

Originally Posted by Animo

Filipino Home

Originally Posted by Animo

Generations have come and go and yet, the Noel house still stands in perfect grandeur. Don Florencio Noel’s old house is located across the street of St. Catherine’s Church, Carcar Cebu. It was built sometime in middle of 19th century; the owners Don Florencio Noel and Filomena Jaen had their two-storey house constructed with strong materials of wood and stone to last for ages. It probably is the oldest house along Sta. Catalina street which is fronting the plaza, the church, convent, school and the municipal hall - an address which gives a hint to the Noel’s social standing at that time.

Don Florencio Noel was Carcar’s gobernadorcillo for more than 20 years. It cannot be denied then that the house must have been the grand setting of countless festive events and must have once been an elite home.

Influenced by the bahay kubo of centuries past, the house is square and airy in structure and has elevated living quarters. The second floor has wide, big windows and sliding panels that form a giant capiz screen, which provide ventilation. There are actually two windows: one is enormous enough for adults to lean-out safely and the others is the waist-high balustered ventanilla through which children could take a glimpse outside.



The ground-storey is built with stone pilasters and a high tympanum, framing the main entrance. The door is high and wide to possibly park the carriages.

There is, however, a service door cut into it for visitors on foot and attached to this door is an iron ring which serves as the "knocker."

As one enters the house, the guest passes through the Zaguan, an area whose walls are made of stone and whose floor made-out of granite, creating a cold atmosphere. Empty carriages and saints’ floats (also called as andas) is kept in this part of the house. The Zaguan was sort of a storeroom of the family’s old furniture, dusty chests, and wooden bins. It could also be the Don’s hiding chamber for jars of jewels and silver pesos, in lieu of banks.

The grand stairway that ascends in two flights leads to the house proper. The first steps of the stairway level off into a landing that is known to be as the meseta or descanso. It is here where visitors are said to rest awhile before stepping on another stairway of wood, bordered by wooden balusters (barandillas) to get into the caida.

The caida is actually a drawing room for friends on any occasion. It is a long room and is so spacious that it includes the dining, at an area separated by posts. The comedor is cool for it faces the terrace. This is where ceremonious meals are served on the long rectangular table. In the evening, a chandelier lits the room as a cabinet of antique china bounces back the rays of light.

The sala introduced by the caida through open doors, is smaller than the caida but is the best room of the house. It is big enough for lounging chairs, a round table, marble-topped tables for lamps, mirrors and a chandelier. It is cozy enough for discussions in literature, business, history, and art. It is where men must have played cards and checkers while women strummed on harps and pressed on the piano.

One bedroom still displays a four-poster bed, very similar to the late 19th century Ah-Tay bed; a closet and a chest. Sisters must have shared the same room, closet and bed. This goes to with the brothers.

The heirs Mario Noel (Don Florencio’s grandson) and Jerry Martin Alfafara (Don Florencio’s great-grandson), have plans of restoring the house. This serves as a gift to the late Catalina Norl-Alfafara, Jerry’s mother, who had very much wanted to revive the house as it was centuries ago.



Carcar’s parish priest, Father Anastacio del Corro, who was fondly called “Padre Tatyong”, had the desire to put up an all-girl school. He wanted to educate the young in Carcar, Cebu. He fulfilled this envisioned commitment and founded St. Catherine’s school on June 15, 1923 with the assistance of four Belgian sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (ICM) congregation headed by Sister Marie Alix.



When the school opened, it initially had 57 students coming from the North and South of Carcar and Cebu City as well. The school year 1924-1925 was a period with steady growth as Kindergarten, complete Elementary Course (Grades 1 to 7) and First Year High School were offered. It was in 1927 that the first commencement exercise was held. St. Catherine’s College was like a boarding school it housed its students especially those who lived in far-off places. The population of students was increasing and to meet the demand of the growing population they constructed additional buildings in 1927. The school wanted to expand and improved its curricula, they opened a Secondary Course with dual curricula, and the General and the Bureau of Education approved the Vocational Secondary Courses. Enrollees in the Vocational Secondary Course earned units in Business English, Geography, Bookkeeping, Typing and Stenography. But students were not enough to support the curricular offering and therefore it concluded in 1930. Even with the sudden turn of events, the school continued to offer few vocational courses to answer the request of parents who wished their daughters to be trained in becoming refined ladies skilled in home management.

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Originally Posted by arnoldsa

But here's a similar house here in Cebu City. I think this was the house of a certain Don Mariano Cui. This house also became the temporary "Casino Español" two years ago when the original casino right across underwent renovation.

Originally Posted by JudeD

Here are more pics of St. Catherine's school.

Originally Posted by slerz

Some ancestral structures in Carcar Cebu

[Animo]

Binondo Church From Across Binondo Bridge, Manila, Philippine Islands.


A "corner in pork", Filipino financers "were pulling" in a stock market, Pasig, Philippine Islands.


The gun boat Napudan which has seen some hard fighting. Manila, Philippine Islands.


The shortest ferry route in the world for 1/2 N., Manila, Philippine Islands.


Ruins of an old Spanish residence wrecked by an earthquake, Manila, Philippine Islands.

[Animo]

Locomotives and Cars wrecked by Insurgents at Bamban Bridge, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Photographer: Underwood & Underwood Place of Publication: New York. Date of Publication: c1900.


Bridge over the great Pampanga River, on the Manila - Dagupan line. Revista de Obras Públicas. 1898 Despite the difficulties involved in its construction resulting from problems in laying the foundations, this bridge with its lattice-work beams was one of the major achievements of Spanish engineering in the Philippines.

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Is this the same bridge?

[overtureph]

Great finds Animo. Impressive!!!

[overtureph]

A very beautiful house. I wonder if it's still standing. Does anybody have an idea where this house is located?

[Animo]

Originally Posted by overtureph

A very beautiful house. I wonder if it's still standing. Does anybody have an idea where this house is located?

I seriously doubt it still exist but it is really a great looking house.




Bahay na bato, Cebu

[AH-7Raja]

very impressive pictures, something that will still make me proud as a filipino...

[overtureph]

[Lili]

Delete - double posting.

Anyway, to make use of this space, can we retain the thread title "Philippines Then and Now" for the photo comparisons/juxtapositions and have this thread for all other heritage/vintage photos?

For the non-Spanish speaking visitors, they might not know what "Retratos" are and it is not readily accessible in search engines. But I do like the novel way of presenting it.

[Lili]

Bayanihan
Pronounced like "buy-uh-nee-hun," bayanihan is a Filipino word derived from the word bayan meaning town, nation, or community in general. "Bayanihan" literally means, "being a bayan," and is thus used to refer to a spirit of communal unity and cooperation.

Although bayanihan can manifest itself in many forms, it is probably most clearly and impressively displayed in the old tradition of neighbors helping a relocating family by getting enough volunteers to carry the whole house, and literally moving it to its new location. They do this by placing long bamboo poles length-wise and cross-wise under the house (traditional Filipino houses were built on stilts), and then carrying the house using this bamboo frame. It takes a fairly large number of people -- often 20 or more -- working together to carry the entire house. All this is done in a happy and festive mood. At the end of the day, the moving family expresses their gratitude by hosting a small fiesta for everyone.

Bayanihan has been a favorite subject of many artists. The picture above is from a mural by Filipino National Artist Carlos "Botong" Francisco, commissioned in 1962 by UNILAB founder Jose Y. Campos, and currently on display at UNILAB's administration building in Manila.

Photo and Description excerpt from: http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/bayanihan/bayanword.html


Bayanihan by Joselito Barcelona 1993


Bayanihan by Araquel 1999


Bayanihan spirit in action captured by Englishman tourist, Paul Pratt, during his sojourn in the Visayas when he witnessed neighbors helped move a house on foot in a Cebu town.

[Wonderboy]

I was trying to locate the exact spot where the photo was taken and ended up at the CCP complex:


Looking Across Manila Bay From The Walls Of Fort Malate



Actually, Malate was just a few meters away but I just got tired from walking. He he…

I will post a better ‘then and now’ photo sometime soon.

Good work on this thread Animo!