| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | The story of the Philippines: natural riches, industrial resources, statistics of productions, commerce and population; the laws, habits, customs, scenery, and conditions of the Cuba of the East Indies, and the thousand islands of the archipelagoes of India and Hawaii, with episodes of their early history
| | | | Creator: | Halstead, Murat, 1829-1908 | | | | | United States War Dept. | | | | Publication: | Our Possessions Pub. Co, Chicago,c1898. | | | | Notes: | "The Eldorado of the Orient. Personal character sketches of and interviews with Admiral Dewey, General Merritt, General Aguinaldo and the Archbishop of Manila. History and romance, tragedies and traditions of our Pacific possessions. Events of the war in the west with Spain, and the conquest of Cuba and Porto Rico." Illustrations prepared by the War Department of the United States. Issued simultaneously also under title "Our new possessions." | | | | Call #: | DS659 H196 1898 | | | | Extent: | 13-400 p., [24] p. of plates : front., ill., maps, ports ; 25 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Philippines -- Description and travel | Philippines -- History | Hawaii -- Description and travel | Hawaii -- History
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