Three Philippine Photo Albums with Schools, Scouts, Police, Social Clubs, and Portraits. 1940s–60s. Silver gelatin. Albums containing a large group of mounted photographs documenting Filipino school, civic, social, and family life. Includes numerous class and institutional group portraits; Girl Scout and Boy Scout images; teachers, nurses, students, and women’s organizations; wedding and studio portraits; community events; images captioned or associated with Ballesteros, Centro West Community School, Malacañan Social Hall, and other Philippine locations; plus a 1957 PACOP convention photograph with uniformed police and officials. Albums also include some loose or related ephemera, including an unrelated earlier funeral notice. Housed in three worn spiral-bound period albums with decorative “Photo” covers. Photos various sizes, mounted to black album leaves, with some inscriptions in the negative or on the mounts. A substantial postwar Philippines vernacular archive with strong educational, civic, scouting, and social-history content

General album wear, rubbing, chipping, toning, handling wear, some fading, adhesive residue, and scattered losses or tears to mounts; photographs generally good or better.