Significant characters in Philippine history and culture
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Significant characters in Philippine history and culture
Description
Philippine newspapers not only report the news, but also include interviews to relevant personalities of the moment, and biographies and tributes to those contemporary or past people who, in the opinion of the editorial team, played an important role in the history of the Philippines. In this way, we can understand how national heroes and heroines were created, what aspects of their lives were most appreciated and how they have been commemorated over the years.
Collection Items
Portrait of Rosa Sevilla de Alvero
Excelsior, a Spanish newspaper, prints a portrait of suffragist Rosa Sevilla de Alvero in its 818th issue. She was the founder and director of the Instituto de Mujeres of Manila, the first Catholic school for women in the Philippines. In addition,…
Interview to Mariano Ponce
El Heraldo de la Revolución was the official organ of the Revolutionary Government.
On January 1, 1899, El Heraldo published an interview from The Shanghay Daily Press with Mariano Ponce y Collantes (1863 – 1918), an active member of the…
Andrés Bonifacio
The Philippines Boy Scout was one of the first juvenile publications of the Philippines in English. It was created in November 1929 as the magazine of the Philippines Boy Scout movement with Jose P. Giron as its editor. Its objective was to address…
José Rizal - his last hours
The Young Citizen was an illustrated monthly magazine for first, second, and third-grade students. Most of its content was related to the education of the young Filipinos in civil virtues. It included sections on the learning of English, natural…
Andrés Bonifacio
Bulaklak Magazine (“Flower Magazine”), which subtitled Hiyas ng Tahanan (“Gem of the Home"), was a Tagalog-language magazine that was first published on 14 April 1947. Published by the Social and Commercial Press of Beatriz M. de Guballa,…
The Trial and Death of Bonifacio
Panorama was an English-speaking Sunday magazine created in 1936. It went dark in 1941 after the Japanese invasion, and only managed to come back after Dec 7. 1955. From the very beginning, Filipino intellectuals such as Claro M. Recto or Carlos P.…
Mabini: architect of the Philippine revolution
In line with the recuperation of revolutionary figures in the 60’s, Panorama published an article by Cesar Adib Majul where he outlined the principal thesis of his book on Mabini (1960), the standard biography of Apolinario Mabini, Emilio…
Eulogy for General Emilio F. Aguinaldo
The Cabletow (1923 - today) is the monthly publication of the Grand Lodge of the Philippines. In May 1964, it published an article by Emilio P. Virata with a eulogy for General Emilio F. Aguinaldo, a Filipino patriot and a brother mason. Aguinaldo…
Los Ilocanos honran a su poetisa Leona Florentino con un monumento
Leona Florentino (1849-1884) was an Ilocano poetess who apparently composed works in Spanish and Ilocano. She was the mother of the intellectual Isabelo de los Reyes (1864-1938), who in his work El folklore filipino (1889) included as an appendix…