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Group of approximately 250 photographs of the Philippines made and/or compiled by Dean C.Worcester.
With images ranging from portraits of indigenous people performing rituals, to factory, plantation,
and construction workers, as well as architectural views and mountainous landscapes; also with a few
ofWorcester himself posing with subjects. Silver prints, most approximately 4
1
/
4
x6
1
/
4
inches (10.8x15.9
cm.), some slightly smaller, some with captions, in pencil, on verso. 1890-1900
[5,000/7,500]
WITH
—
A group of 22 medium-format photographs of Pagsanjan, Laguna, and the Philippines, including
landscapes, interiors, and portraits.
Silver prints, 7
1
/
2
x9
1
/
2
inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), some with captions,
in pencil, on verso.
Dean C.Worcester (1886-1924), an American government administrator in the Philippines from
1901-13, is best-known for stridently perpetuating the American colonial agenda. An avid
photographer, he wrote numerous illustrated articles for
National Geographic
.Though trained as an
anthropologist, Worcester was a racist and ideologue whose practice of manipulating images to
maintain American dominance in the islands led one judge to characterize him as “the P.T. Barnum
of the ‘non-Christian tribe’ industry.”