(PHILIPPINES) worcester dean c (1866 1924) Group of approimx

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(PHILIPPINES) worcester, dean c. (1866-1924)
Group of approimxately 60 remarkable photographs of indigenous Filippinos photographed and/or compiled by Dean C. Worcester (who was Secretary of the Interior for the United States Insular Government in the Philippines), including a study of Worcester posing with native chiefs. Silver prints, nearly all are 4 1/4x6 1/4 inches (10.8x15.9 cm.), a few with numeric and/or caption information, in pencil, on verso. 1890-1900

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Dean C. Worcester, an American government administrator in the Philippines from 1901-13, is best-known for stridently perpetuating the American colonial agenda. An avid photographer, he wrote numerous articles for The National Geographic Magazine, which were illustrated with his photographs. Though trained as an anthropologist, Worcester was a racist and ideologue whose practice of manipulating images to maintain American dominance in the islands led one judge to characterize him as "the P.T. Barnum of the 'non-Christian tribe' industry."