TY - BOOK AU - Muijzenberg, Otto Diederik van den. TI - The Philippines through European lenses: late 19th century photographs from the Meerkamp van Embden collection SN - 9789715505765 AV - DS 675 .M896 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Quezon City PB - Ateneo de Manila University Press KW - Philippines N1 - Published in cooperation with Kitlv Press, Leiden, The Netherlands N2 - Romblon and Cebu. Includes photographs of people of the Cordillera by Dr. Alexander Schadenberg; the abaca trade; Presents the photograph collection of P.K.A. Meerkamp van Embden, a Dutch businessman who served as honorary consul in the Netherlands from 1889 to 1927.The years covered by his photographs witnessed the increasing integration of the Philippines into the world economy, the 1896 Revolution and the violent change of sovereignty from Spanish to American. The subjects are varied: the people, streets and homes of Ermita, where Meerkamp resided ER -