H. C. WHITE COMPANY
Hawley C. White,
who was a photographer, set up a factory to manufacture stereoviewers in 1874
in North Bennington, Vermont. He started to produce stereoviews
in 1899 with very high standards of quality control. By 1907, his production
capacity was about 15,000 views per day. He developed a line of about 13,000
titles. H. C. White closed the factory and retired in 1915, and sold his entire
stock to Keystone.
H. C. White
published a series of 104 Philippine views under the trademark The "Perfec"
Stereograph that were mainly sold in boxed sets. The numbers in
parentheses sometimes shown before the negative reference number correspond to
sequence numbers in the sets.The catalog number used here is the White reference number with the prefix W.
Almost all views
are on dark gray curved mount. Captions are printed in gilt in the deluxe edition
and in black in the regular edition. The only flaw was that the captions
are rather small and hard to read. H. C. White's
views depict mostly street scenes and everyday life of Filipinos in Manila and the rest of Luzon.
The captions are factual and respectful of Filipino customs.
W3501 Manila Bay, where Dewey's fleet destroyed the Spanish Squandron (sic)
W3502 Working fish nets in the Bay, Manila
W3503 Giving the buffalo his regular Noon-day Bath, Manila Bay
W3504 Fort Santiago overlooking Manila Bay
W3505 Where the Weeds now flourish on the Fortifications of Manila
W3506 The Puerta del Parian Gate to the Walled City, Manila
W3507 The Santo Domingo Gate, the Western Entrance to Manila
W3508 View from the Fort Walls looking East, Manila
W3509 On the bridge of Spain, Manila
W3510 The Bridge of Spain, over the Pasig River
W3511 On the Muelle del Rey, Manila
W3512 The Palace, Headquarters of Maj. Gen. MacArthur, Manila
W3513 The Courtyard of an Old Spanish Residence, Manila
W3514 Binondo Church from across Binondo Bridge, Manila
W3515 The Escolta, the Chief Business Street of Manila
W3516 A street scene in Binondo, the business quarter of Manila (see WS24)
W3517 Camisa Church in Binondo, Manila
W3518 A Cock Fight, the Filipino's Favorite Sport, Manila
W3519 Entrance to an Old Spanish Church wrecked by an Earthquake, Manila
W3520 A Group of Boys from a Normal High School, Manila
W3521 A Filipino Laundry in Old Manila
W3522 In the busy market place, Manila
W3523 Filipino Police, - once Insurgents, now faithful servants of Uncle Sam, Manila
W3524 Officers of the Insurgent Army, prisoners in Postigo Prison, Manila
W3525 The Beautiful Church of San Sebastian, Manila
W3526 A Filipino Beauty, Manila
W3527 Gambling on the open highway, Manila
W3528 Native Method of propelling Canal Boats on Escolta Canal, Manila
W3529 Escolta Bridge and Canal, Manila
W3530 Landing Horses and Cattle in the Canal, Manila
W3531 The Shortest Ferry Route in the world, fare 1/2c, Manila
W3532 Crowds of Native Boats at the Mouth of the Pasig River, Manila (see WS289)
W3533 The Pasig River, Manila
W3534 Shipping on the Pasig River - the quay near the Custom House, Manila
W3535 Where the Canoes and Rafts come down the Pasig River, Manila
W3536 In the Sloo, where Native Boats are made, Manila
W3537 The gun boat Napidan which has seen some hard fighting, Manila
W3538 General View of the Suspension Bridge over Pasig River, Manila
W3539 On the Suspension Bridge, Manila (2 variants)
W3540 The Penny Ferry Boats beneath the Suspension Bridge, Manila
W3541 Washing Buffaloes in the Pasig River, Manila
W3542 The bones from the graves of those whose burial rental was not renewed, Manila
W3543 Paco Cemetery, - each oval opening in the wall is a Tomb, Manila
W3544 The Stars and Stripes floating over the Walls of Old Manila
W3545 The guns with which Spain hoped to defend Manila
W3546 The gateway through the parapeted wall of old Manila
W3547 Ruins of an Old Spanish Residence Wrecked by an Earthquake, Manila
W3548 Life in the slums of old Manila
W3549 The site where many of the Astor Battery fell, August 13th, 1899
W3550 In the fishing village of Ermita
W3551 In the Fish market at Ermita
W3552 The Filipinos as they go to Market, Ermita (see WS21)
W3553 Haying in the Fields around Ermita
W3554 A Filipino School House of the most primitive type
W3555 Filipino Children outside a Native School House
W3556 Home Life of the Filipinos in their Thatched Huts
W3557 A Well-to-do Home in the Rice Fields of the Philippine Islands
W3558 Native Huts of Bamboo Thatched with Nipa
W3559 A Typical Village Scene in the Philippine Islands
W3560 The Primitive Style of Life among the Natives
W3561 Among the earthquake ruins of old Manila
W3562 A Filipino restaurant, Manila
W3563 At the mouth of the Pasig River, Manila
W3564 The rapid fire guns in the fighting top of an American river gun boat, Manila
W3565 Native boats in the harbor, Manila
W3566 One of the numerous canals in Manila
W3567 Native watering his caraboa (water buffalo), at sunset, Manila Bay
W3568 A crowd of freight boats passing the new automatic lift bridge, Binondo Canal, Manila
W3569 The Filipino Americanized - constabulary soldiers, Manila
W3570 Street parade on the Luneta, Rizal Day, Manila
W3571 Assorting leaf tobacco in a cigar factory, Manila
W3572 Filipino girls stripping the tobacco leaves for cigar manufacture, Manila
W3573 A crowded room in a cigar factory, women and girls making cigars, Manila
W3574 Trimming the ends of finished cigars and packing into bunches, Manila
W3575 Native women rolling cigarettes by hand in a big factory, Manila
W3576 Where modern appliances have been adopted - making cigarettes by machinery, Manila
W3577 The packing room in a large cigarette factory, boys and girls at work, Manila
W3578 Cigarettes by the million - handling the waste product in a large factory, Manila
W3579 When church is out - Filipinos in holiday attire leaving an ancient church at Antipolo
W3580 Filipino Farmers with their buffaloes plowing rice fields, Luzon
W3581 A "corner in pork", Filipino financiers "wire pulling" is the stock market, Pasig
W3582 Stripping hemp - producing fibre for making Manila rope and hemp fabrics
W3583 Drying the hemp fibre for Manila's most important product, rope and cordage
W3584 Assorting the hemp fibre in a rope factory, Manila
W3585 Native method of making rope, women twisting the fibre by hand
W3586 The crude loom in which the Filipino woman weaves the fine hemp fibre into cloth
W3587 Schoolgirls in native dress, upper garment made of hemp gauze
W3588 Rapid transit in the tropics - a caraboa cart
W3589 Filipino children in their play house, Luzon
W3590 Primitive caraboa (water buffalo) cart, wheels one solid piece of wood
W3591 Igorrote (wild Filipino) mother and child, Luzon
W3592 Ten thousand acres of cocoanut palms
W3593 Preparing cocoanuts for shipment, the husking process
W3594 The daring Tuba man at work extracting sap from the cocoanut palm
W3595 In the heart of a native village, typical of life in the tropics
W3596 The verdure clothed walls of Pagsanjan Canyon (see K24012)
W3597 A fisherman's home and primitive dug-out boats
W3598 A Negrito huntsman with an aboriginal war weapon, the long bow and arrows
W3599 Igorrote girl, type of one of the largest native tribes, Benguet province
W3600 Among the lofty Benguet mountains, Luzon
W3601 Beautiful Mayon, highest volcano in Southern Luzon
W3602 Ruins of Daraga church and distant Mayon, Southern Luzon
W3603 Native girls with their singular water vessels made of long shafts of bamboo
W3604 Legaspi, a seaport town of Southern Luzon, at the foot of majestic Mayon, (8274 ft.)
W8001 The Boys who Fought at Manila, - Dewey Parade, New York
W8568
Ox cart used in the Philippines, War Department Exhibit,
Government Building, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis