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Bibliographic title: Diary of a trip from Willets Point, N.Y., to Manila, Philippine Islands, of a detachment of U.S. Engineers. Kept by S.N. Petersen, en route and during his stay in the Philippines commencing May 15th, 1899.

Written by Samuel N. Petersen (Company A, Battalion of Engineers). He starts his trip to the Philippines from New York, telling of going to San Francisco by train. May 22, he boards the US General Meigs headed for The Philippines and describes this trip in detail. He arrives at Manila Bay on June 19 and starts to repair buildings and roads. Then he is assigned to guard the School of Mines, and having nothing else to do, he tours Manila and tells of it in detail, its districts, the streets, houses, churches, the people, the Lunetepark, lifestyles. Included are 3 printed and manuscript passes and orders.

Spine detached; in fragile condition, with brittle yellowing pages.

Purchased, 2001.

Corporal Arthur J. Lowell, Company "D", 35th Infantry, U.S. Army, wrote these ten letters to Iva Hutchinson between February 14, 1900 and January 10, 1901. Lowell writes of going into the mountains to "clear out insurectos," the number of dead and captured, the use of water torture on Filipino prisoners, eating bats, his plan to translate into English the history of the Philippines that had been written on shells, the upcoming U.S. Presidential election, and a continuous thread concerning when he would be returning home.

Also included are two letters from Will Hutchinson to his sister Iva Hutchinson. These are dated September 8, 1899 and May 27, 1900.

Record made while serving as 1st Lt., 11th Infantry, U.S. Army, during the Philippine-American War. At the end are an outline of facts about the Philippines and financial records for his men. Includes a sketch of an Indigenous home (pasted in) and sketch map of country traversed on an expedition to Cabalian, Leyte.

Purchased from Alfred Goodman, 1974. Accompanied by photocopy (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Library, 1974).

Manuscript diary, 1902-1905, recording the experiences of Corporal John Williams including service in the Philippines with the United States Army, 10th Infantry, 1902-1903.

A report written to the Chief of the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes in Manila. The first part consists of lists of short numbered sentences arranged under subject headings (e.g., physical characteristics, clothing, housing, agriculture, music and dancing, education, government, religion, etc.) describing the indigenous Silipanes (an Ifugao subgroup). The second part contains short essays on additional ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines, including the Ilongot, Aeta, Gaddang, and "Quiangan" [presumably, the Ifugao of Kiangan].

Illustrations consist of six drawings in pencil (two colored) depicting the clothing and housing of the different ethnolinguistic groups.

This collection consists of one folder containing typed reports, prepared by John J. Pershing. The first is of an expedition along the West shore of Lake Lanao from Camp Vicars to Marshui (May 15, 1903). The second is a typed report on an earlier expedition along Lake Lanao on Febuary 20, 1902.

Concerns provision of a subscription to his publication, The Filipino People, and the gift of two books, for the Library.

Documents related to the March 26-28, 1962, conference "The Army's Limited-War Mission and Social Science Research" held at the Mariott Key Bridge Motor Hotel in Arlington, VA.