Our Islands and Their People as Seen With Camera and Pencil, only volume 1 (of 2), edited by William S. Bryan (Oversized HC, 1899, 384 pages, spine is loose, $20, which is 1/3 the internet price.)
"Embracing perfect photographic and descriptive representations of the people and the islands lately acquired from Spain, including Hawaii and the Philippines; also their material resources and productions, homes of the people, their customs and general appearance, with many hundred views of landscapes, rivers, valleys, hills and mountains, so complete as to practically transfer the islands and their people to the pictured page."
The problem here is that this is only volume one, which does NOT seem to have anything in it about either Hawaii or the Philippines. It DOES however, have 384 pages of photos and drawings of Cuba, and Puerto Rico.
It is hard to try to understand what it must have been like to wake up one morning after the end of the Spanish American War to find out that we now owned all these new places, most of which were unknown to the usual citizen. This book was meant to address that problem. I am only sorry we only have the first volume. Being able to see the photos Hawaii and the Philippines would have been nice.
Look for this book on the glass case in the front.
