AuthorHalstead, Murat, 1829-1908.
TitleThe story of the Philippines : natural riches, industrial resources, statistics of productions, commerce and population; the laws, habits, customs, scenery, and conditions of the Cuba of the East Indies, and the thousand islands of the archipelagoes of India and Hawaii, with episodes of their early history / by Murat Halstead.
PublishedChicago : Our Possessions Pub. Co., c1898.
Description13-400 p., [24] p. of plates : front., ill., maps, ports ; 25 cm.
General Note"The Eldorado of the Orient. Personal character sketches of and interviews with Admiral Dewey, General Merritt, General Aguinaldo and the Archbishop of Manila. History and romance, tragedies and traditions of our Pacific possessions. Events of the war in the west with Spain, and the conquest of Cuba and Porto Rico."
Illustrations prepared by the War Department of the United States.
Issued simultaneously also under title "Our new possessions."
SubjectsHawaii -- Description and travel.
Hawaii -- History.
Philippines -- Description and travel.
Philippines -- History.
OrganizationsUnited States. War Dept.
LC Card Number98-1821
Call Number/Copies 
 WRHS Research Library: DS 659 H196 1898
mq233581: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING]
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