Historical Sources

(Visual Images)
Four examples of primary sources
related to visual imagery are the
following:

1.Maps
2.Photographs
3.Sketches, Drawings, Paintings
4.Cartoons
Maps
generally used to indicate locations
as well as topography
reveals how space and geography
were being used to emphasize trade
routes, travel routes, structural build
up, etc.
17th Century Map of the Taal Lake area in Batangas
Sketches and drawings that
may indicate the conditions of
life of the past societies
Cartoons for political expression or
propaganda also indicates the
temper of the times.
Paintings and other art works are
visual representations based on the
artist’s expression or interpretation of
events and ideas. These become
useful historical sources when we
have to know or understand the
context of the period in which they
are made.
Photographs reflect social
conditions of historical realities
and everyday life.
It also gives us visual ideas of
places, historical events as well
as people.
 It is said that pictures tell a
thousand words. Today, however, with
the advent of techonology, pictures can
easily be made to lie.
But photographs still tell stories
and from it we can distinguish details
that tell the other side of a story or
something beyond texts.
It is also a record of the past that is
useful for historians.
Objects and Artifacts
The Manunggul Jar
- recovered at
Chamber A of Manunggul
Cave in Palawan.
- an elaborately
designed burial jar with
anthropomorphic figures on
top of the cover that
represent souls sailing to
the afterworld in a death
boat.
- It is dated to as early
as 710 - 890 B.C. The
Manunggul jar was
declared a National Cultural
Treasure.
Callao Man (67,000 years old)
The latest discovery of what is now considered the oldest human fossil
remains found in the Philippines. Discovered in 2007 at the Callao
Caves in Penablanca, Cagayan Valley.
Photo shows the remains of the foot bone found in the cave excavations.
Calatagan, Batangas
Excavated by Dr. Robert Fox
in 1958, the burial site of
Calatagan yielded 505 burials
and 521 associated ceramics,
porcelains and stoneware jars
from China, Thailand, and
Vietnam, as well as hundreds
of local earthenware and iron
tools.
The Asian tradeware ceramics
of the site date to the early to
mid-Ming Dynasty (14th-15th
centuries AD).
Document
written in
baybayin
Philippine Social Life
19th century photograph showing women vendors in a public market.
Events
Newspaper photos of the Philippine Boy Scout Contingent of the 11th World Scouting Jamboree, 1963.
Photo on the left is their farewell flight from the Philippines to Bombay, India for Marathon, Greece. Photo
on the right is a newspaper headline of the crash of their United Arab Airlines plane in the Bay of India on
July 28, 1963. The victims of the crash were Dr. Bonifacio V. Lazcano, (Scoutmaster); Liberato Fernandez,
assistant Scoutmaster; Fr. Jose Martinez, SJ., (Chaplain); Florante Ojeda Jr. (senior Scout). The Boy Scouts
were Ramon V. Albano, Patricio Bayoran, Gabriel Nicolas Borromeo, Roberto Castor, Henry Chuatoco,
Victor De Guia, Jr., Jose Antonio Delgado, Felix Fuentebella, Jr., Pedro Gandia, Antonio Limbaga, Roberto
Lozano, Paulo Madriñan, Jose Fermin Magbanua, Romeo R. Rallos, Filamer Reyes, Wilfredo Santiago,
Benecio Tobias, Antonio Torillo, Ascario Tuason, Jr., Rogelio Ybardolaza.
Personalities
Historic Structures
Maraming Salamat Po!