Following the establishment of American rule in 1898, the United States created military reservations across the Philippines to house its armed forces and administer territory. These reservations were surveyed and mapped in detail to define boundaries and support military planning.
This map documents a portion of a Philippine military reservation, recording boundaries, terrain, and infrastructure as surveyed during the American colonial period. Maps of this kind were technical documents, produced to define land set aside for military use and to support the administration of these zones.
This print preserves a record of military land survey during the American colonial period in the Philippines.
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