Walter W. Marquardt papers, 1896-1952

Summary

Creator:

Marquardt, Walter W. (Walter William), 1878-

Abstract:

Educator and director of education 1916-1919 in the Philippines. Bound volumes containing correspondence, appointments, speeches, writings, diaries, and travel accounts detailing career in the Philippines.

Extent:

8 linear feet
446 MB (online)

Language:

English

Call Number:

91421 Aa 2

Authors:

Finding aid created by May Davis Hill, 1981; Leonard A. Coombs, revised 1985.

Background

Scope and Content:

Walter Marquardt's collection is made up of bound volumes containing correspondence, appointments, speeches, writings, diaries, and travel accounts detailing his career in the Philippines and a collection of 360 hand-colored glass slides. The slides include views of Philippine people, buildings, and scenery, especially of native tribes, and slides of Marquardt and other American officials in the Philippines. The collection also includes one sound cassette of a radio speech, dated February 28, 1945, to be broadcast to the people of the Philippines by the Office of War Information, to mark the liberation of Manila from the Japanese.

Biographical / Historical:

Walter Marquardt (1878-1962) arrived in the Philippine Islands as a teacher in 1909. He was quickly made a supervising teacher, then high school principal, and eventually Superintendent of Schools for the province of Leyte.

He left Leyte in 1910 when he was made superintendent of the Philippine School of Arts and Trades in Manila. In 1916 he became the head of the entire Philippine school system with the title of Director of Education, remaining in the post until 1919 when he left to take charge of the "pensionado system," in which top Filipino students were sent to the United States at the Philippine government's expense for specialized training.

He gave up his work with the Philippine government in 1923 and was home in the United States on vacation in the summer of 1941.

Acquisition Information:

The collection was donated in 1974 by Marquardt's son, Frederic S. Marquardt (donor no. 5131 ).

Processing information:

Several images identified by Dr. Analyn V. Salvador-Amores, Professor of Anthropology at the University of the Philippines Baguio, in May 2023. See container list.

Accruals:

No further additions to the records are expected.

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Related

Alternative Form Available:

Digitization: The Library has undertaken the digitization of a number of sound recordings within this collection. The resulting audio files are available for playback only in the Bentley Library Reading Room. Links to item images and additional information are available within this finding aid. Original sound recordings are only available for staff use.

Subjects

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Subjects:

Education -- Philippines.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Philippines.

Formats:

Diaries.
Sound recordings.
Lantern slides.
Photographs.

Names:

Marquardt, Walter W. (Walter William), 1878-
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930.
Yeater, Charles Emmett, 1861-
Laurel, Jose P. (Jose Paciano), 1891-1959.
Osmeña, Sergio, 1878-1961.
Romulo, Carlos P. (Carlos Peña), 1899-1985.

Places:

Philippines -- History -- 1898-1946.
Philippines -- History -- 1898-1946.
Philippines -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.