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National Printing Office (NPO) is one of 3 Recognized Government Printers in the Philippines (together with Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Apo Production Unit). It was first established in 1901 as the Philippine Bureau of Printing.
The first labor union in the Philippines called Union de Impresores (UI) was first established in June 1901 by a group of printers.Following the establishment of other similar unions within the printing business after the UI, the UI and these other unions were united as a single group and formed the Union de Impresores de Filipinas (UIF) on either December 30, 1901 [2] or in January 1902 ...
Francisco Blancas de San José made a significant print contribution with "Arte y reglas de la lengua tagala," a grammar book in the native language of the Philippines. Published in Bataan in 1610, this work, printed on papel de China (rice paper), was considered authoritative by missionaries, aiding in the dissemination of the Catholic faith.
The Philippine one-peso note (₱1) was a denomination of Philippine currency.On its final release, José Rizal was featured on the front side of the bill, while the Declaration of the Philippine Independence was featured on the reverse side.
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 ...
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 ...
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".
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.