[Collection of Vernacular Photographs of Settlers in Remote Rural Regions of the Philippines]

[Philippines, 1950. Very good.. Thirty-one original photographs, each measuring 4 x 5 inches. Minor wear and dust soiling. Mostly sharp, clean images. Fascinating group of over thirty candid photographs depicting Philippine settlers and their homes on the large southern island of Mindanao just after World War II. Over half over these show settlers and their homes in the Panguantucan and Nabaliwa areas of Bukidnon province, in the center of the island, as wells as images of coffee and soybean farms, a poultry enterprise, rural roads and bridges, and more. Additional photographs show similar scenes in Lanao del Sur, also on Mindanao, and a few in the Tinambac municipality of the more central Camarines Sur province -- farmers with their products by the road, agricultural families at work, a plant nursery, and settlers' children in the fields. Mindanao is one of the principal centers of agricultural production in the Philippines, and the island was subject to a series of resettlement efforts across the 20th century by both colonial and independent governments aimed at increasing production. The photos are captioned in manuscript in English on the versos, and scattered images of crude roads and construction equipment suggest that these images were taken by a U.S. Army engineer or a private contractor after the war.