Photo Archives - Philippines Collections

Between 1908-1910, Museum curator Fay-Cooper Cole visited the Philippine Islands and Indonesia and produced over 400 photographs while visiting the areas. Through Edward Ayer and the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Field Museum made copies of the Newberry's collection of Dean C. Worcester's collection of photographs. Over 2,000 copy negatives were made of the photographs made by Worcester and by his government photographers.
Learn moreBetween 1908-1910, Museum curator Fay-Cooper Cole visited the Philippine Islands and Indonesia and produced over 400 photographs while visiting the areas. Through Edward Ayer and the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Field Museum made copies of the Newberry's collection of Dean C. Worcester's collection of photographs. Over 2,000 copy negatives were made of the photographs made by Worcester and by his government photographers. The Worcester Collection is an important resource for the study of Philippine anthropology and late colonial Philippine history.
View lessThe collection of Worcester photographs at The Field Museum have not been digitized so that they are not available on-line. There are several on-line sources of the Dean C. Worcester collections.
- Worcester Collection at University of Michigan:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/umma/collections/photographyandarchivecollections
- Worcester Collection at the Smithsonian:
http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?q=Worcester+Dean+Conant&view=&date.slider=&dsort=title
- The Internet Archive has an extensive collection of digital copies of Philippines Past and Present, by Dean C. Worcester that contain several hundred photographs.
http://www.archive.org/details/philippinespastp01worcuoft
http://www.archive.org/details/philippinespastp02worcuoft
- In addition to those books, go to http://archive.org and do a search for "Report of the Philippine commission to the President"
(no quotes). There are more than 10 volumes, written by Worcester that contain hundreds of photographs from his collection.

