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The Spanish Philippines in the US Midwest

CROPPED Translation, Memory, and the Archive Banner

A Historically Multilingual Space

Illustrations from pages 56, 24, and 14 of the Boxer Codex manuscript: Tagalogs, Visayans, Negrillos
Illustrations from pages 204, 152, and 198 of the Boxer Codex manuscript: Sangley, Japan, Tartar
Descriptio Philippinarum
Map of Manila from the Carta hydrographica y chronographica de las Yslas Filipinas (Hydrographic and Chronographic Map of the Philippine Islands) of the Library of Congress
Passage from section 37 of the prologue from Perfecta religiosa, 1662

Missionary Writing

Cover pages, from left to right, of Doctrina christiana en lengua española y tagala (Christian Doctrine in Spanish and Tagalog Languages), Bian zheng jiao zhen chuan shih lu (Testimony of the True Religion), Doctrina christiana en letra y lengua China (Christian Doctrine in the Chinese Language and Letters)
Pages 9-12 of Doctrina christiana en lengua española y tagala (Christian Doctrine in Spanish and Tagalog Languages)
The Lord's Prayer from the Doctrina christiana en letra y lengua China (Christian Doctrine in the Chinese Language and Letters)
Title Page in Spanish and Chinese from Espejo rico del claro corazón (Precious Mirror of the Clear Heart)
Opening Page of the manuscript of Fray Juan de Oliver

Indigenous Voices

"Gobernadorcillo" watercolor from Vistas de las Yslas Filipinas y trages de sus habitantes (Scenes from the Philippine Islands and Costumes of their Inhabitants)
"Indio Priest" watercolor from Vistas de las Yslas Filipinas y trages de sus habitantes (Scenes from the Philippine Islands and Costumes of their Inhabitants)
Cover Page, and beginning of the Pasyón from Manḡa panalanḡing pagtatagobilin sa caloloua nang tauong naghihinḡalo (Prayers of Commendation for the Souls of the Dying)

Filipino Enlightenment

Portrait of Pedro Paterno
Dedication to, and portrait of, Mrs. Taft, in the 1907 edition of Nínay
Portait of Isabelo de los Reyes

Rizal’s Noli and Fili

Portrait of José Rizal
Cover illustration from the 1961 facsimile of Noli me tangere

Between Two Powers

Insurgent prisoners
Dead insurgents
Pahayag sa mañga taga Filipinas / Proclama al pueblo filipino
Brochure for the "Philippine Exposition" at the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904
Class of Igorots, Negritos, Moros, Tinquianies and Bagabos in the Model School at the 1904 World's Fair

Resisting English

If they'll only be good / Ehrhart
Worcester with a Negrito
Worcester with Kalinga Chiefs
Se deshojó la flor (The Flower Has Withered)

A Golden Age?

Patria y redención, Cantos del trópico, Novela de la vida real, Filipinas

Near-Death and Afterlives

Cuento/Kwento, Cuentos Hispanofilipinos
La Nueva Babilonia, Hexalogía Teatral

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