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The nilad plant, from which the city of Manila may have derived its name.
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Plaza Mayor, Intramuros. Around the public square are the Manila Cathedral, the Ayuntamiento on the left and the Palacio del Gobernador on the right.
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Calle Real in Intramuros, 1898.
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Nineteenth-century Intramuros.
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Filling in the moat around the Walled City (1905).
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Photo-engraving of the old Spanish fortification in Manila showing cannons. In the background is the Luneta, now Rizal Park.
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Tondo, an 'arrabal' (suburb) on the Pasig River (1863).
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Engraving of an 1850 procession in Santa Ana de Sapa, a suburb of Manila.
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La Naval procession in Intramuros.
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The Parian, the Chinese ghetto in Spanish Manila.
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Santa Lucia Gate and the San Agustin Provincial House, both in Intramuros (1900).
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Grand staircase of the Ayuntamiento (City Hall) in Intramuros, 1898.
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Senior hall of of the City Hall in Intramuros. c.1898.
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The San Francisco and the Venerable Orden Tercera Churches, two of the seven churches in Spanish Intramuros.
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Interior of the Santo Domingo Church, Intramuros,1863.
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Quiapo, Manila. c. 1889.
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Intramuros after the earthquake in 1880.
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A four-poster bed with a canopy and elaborate carvings, typical bedroom furniture of the wealthy in late nineteenth-century Manila.
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A well-to-do Tagalog couple in the sixteenth century.
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Sunset stroll at the Luneta.
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Male and female inhabitants of Luzon in their native attire (1830).
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Spanish conquistadores Ruy Lopez de Villalobos, Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, and Ferdinand Magellan. Legazpi was the founder of Manila.
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Intramuros as seen from Manila Bay.
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Revellin and Real Gate, 1886.
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A modern artist's rendition of a galleon in the port of Manila in the seventeenth century.
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Commercial houses along the Pasig River, which is dotted by various types of native watercraft.
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Chinese street vendor serving noodles to buyers.
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A native male transporting game cocks.
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A woman selling sugar-cane. The men on the left are playing a game involving sugar-cane.
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Spanish mestizo in their Sunday finery.
