American Historical Collection

A rich repository of materials from the American period in the Philippines. These go back to before the U.S. era. In 1950, U.S.

Equally valuable to the researcher or historian are the thousands of miscellaneous documents – pamphlets, reports, articles, and other items that had been collected – as well as the AHC’s unparalleled files of photographs. era and include photos of Filipino notables as well as U.S. officials and prominent members of the Manila community in the U.S. Ambassador Myron Cowen, who saw the devastation w

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The American Historical Collection
(AHC) consists of some 13,000 books, 18,000 photographs, and other
materials related to the American experience in the Philippines and to
the relationship of the two countries. With the possible exception of
the holdings of the U.S.Library of Congress, it is the largest, most diverse and most complete in the world.