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Manuel Antonio Rodriguez Sr. (January 1, 1912 [2] – May 6, 2017), [3] also known by his nickname Mang Maning, was a Filipino printmaker. He was one of the pioneers of printmaking in the Philippines and was dubbed as the "Father of Philippine Printmaking". Rodriguez was also the first Filipino to have exhibited his prints in biennial shows ...
The first Director of the Bureau of Printing was John Sylvannus Leech. Under his term, the Apprenticeship System was adopted in the Bureau to train future printers in the agency's operations. Among the apprentices who benefited from this program was Pablo Lucas, who went on to be the first Filipino Director of Printing.
The Price Mansion was built in 1910 by Walter Scott Price, an American from Philadelphia. He was a United States Army engineer who was assigned in the Philippines for the Spanish–American War . He married Cavite native Simeona Custodio Kalingag, and after the war they migrated to Leyte .
Following the occupation of the Philippines by the United States as a result of the Spanish–American War, the American military government issued regular stamps overprinted with the word "Philippines", for postal purposes. Stamps issued on June 30, 1899, were used up to August 1906, when the American civil government that supplanted the ...
Typographic printing in the Philippines was indigenous, not imported from other countries it was recognized by Wenceslao Retana as "the semi-invention" of the press in the country. In 1625, the press open up at the Colegio de Santo Tomás , soon became a university, and had since been known as the UST Press.
The National Historical Commission of the Philippines is a government agency of the Philippines whose mission is "the promotion of Philippine history and cultural heritage through research, dissemination, conservation, sites management and heraldry works and aims to inculcate awareness and appreciation of the noble deeds and ideals of our ...
This was the official gazette of the government in the Philippines which published government announcements, new decrees, laws, military information, court decisions, and the like. It also republished notices originally appearing in the Gaceta de Madrid which were relevant to the islands and decrees and other notices that required its ...
Filipino Struggles Through History, alternatively known as the History of Manila is a series paintings which depicts select events from Philippine history. [6] It composes of 10 canvas panels collectively measuring 2.7 meters (8.9 ft) high and 79.4 meters (260 ft) wide.