Our Islands and Their Peoples

copyright 1898

Selected Images from Volume Two

Please note that these images were taken in the infancy of portable film photography.

Thus they are not of the extremely high quality demanded of todays photography.

Primitive Porto Rico

The 47th New York Volunteers
A Native hut and family near Coamo
United States soldiers embarking for home
The Docks at Ponce
Quarantine boat off the coast at Ponce
A coffee Plantation in central Porto Rico
A game of "Bolara"

Hawaii

Native canoe man coasting near Diamond Head
A native woman with her water bottle and calabash
King David Kalakaua
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani
Our artist at his home in Honolulu
Japanese contract labors at Honolulu
The harbor at Honolulu as seen from Diamond Head
Meat and fish market at Honolulu
A busy scene in the harbor at Honolulu
Japanese girl students at Honolulu
Preparing for a feast.
Banquet at Honolulu in honor of the American commissioners
Native grass hut
Native Poe manufacture
Loading sugar cane on railroad cars, Island of Kauai
Giants Tombstone, Mauna Loa
Japanese laborer's huts on a sugar plantation near Hilo
View of the suburbs of Hilo

The Riches of Samoa

Native hut and family, interior of Tutuila Island
Samoan Girl and canoe
Group of Samoan women
Samoan village and Deadhouse
Samoan double canoe

The Spanish Official History Of The Philippine Islands

Native Cock Fight
Water buffaloes, or "caraboas" of the Philippine Islands
Madame Aguinaldo
High-Class Filipino girl
Fruit sellers of Manila
Mestizo boy and girl
"Bamberos" or Manila fire company
Scene on the Pasig river at Manila
On picket duty
American outpost near San Roque, Manila Bay
American soldiers firing from a captured Filipino breastwork
A native farmhouse, interior of the island of Luzon
A memory of Dewy in the harbor at Manila
Enjoying life in the Philippines
Native house and fruit stand
Suspension bridge at Manila
Macabebe Warriors
Scene along the route described by Mr. Sargent
A Mestizo merchant
A Calamba Milk-woman
Two accomplished Filipino maidens
Negrito prisoners of war

Wild Races of the Southern Islands

Negrito warrior with palm-wood bow and bundle of poisoned arrows
Negrito warriors with bamboo spears
A typical country house of northern Luzon
Monteses of Negros island
A country house in Luzon
Tinguiane tree-dwellers
A tree house in the Philippines
Chino-Mestizo girl, Manila
Negrito Head men
Water carriers and fruit venders, Manila
Papuan village
A Montese, or mountain man with spear
Papuan man and women
Tagalog girl, showing usual style of wearing the hair
Native Tagalog priest

The Moros of Sulu

A Tagalog parlor
A Dato of the Moros
Negritos of the Southern Philippines
A Papaun warrior
Moro lake house
Women hulling rice
General Emilio Aguinaldo
Building a new house in the Philippines