A curated archive of historical images from the Philippines, including Tipos del País illustrations, vintage posters, and early maps of the Philippines. This collection documents the country's visual and cultural history, from the colonial period to the early modern era.
José Honorato Lozano was more than a painter. Through his Tipos del País watercolors, he became one of the most important visual chroniclers of 19th-century Philippine society.
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Tipos del País, literally "Types of the Country," are 19th-century miniature watercolor paintings that documented the people, dress, and social hierarchy of colonial Philippines. Produced for foreign traders and wealthy...
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For over three centuries, the plants of the Philippine archipelago were documented by hand by Jesuit missionaries, Spanish botanists, and Filipino artists. Many of those illustrations have been sitting in...
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In 1762, British forces occupying Manila seized the copper plates used to print the most consequential map the Philippines has ever produced and shipped them to England. The copies had...
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Maynila Archive is a curated collection of Philippine historical artworks, carefully restored and reproduced as museum-quality fine art prints.
Each piece is selected for its cultural value and visual strength, then printed using archival techniques to create timeless artwork for modern interiors.
Browse our growing collection of articles on Philippine historical art, colonial-era illustrations, vintage maps, and botanical prints.
Justiniano Asuncion's Un Indio Ordinario documents the everyday Filipino at the base of colonial society.
A Memecylon edule plate from Flora de Filipinas, documenting a tropical shrub of Philippine forests.
A Musa troglodytarum plate from Flora de Filipinas, documenting a banana species found across the Philippines.
A Nelumbo nucifera plate from Flora de Filipinas, documenting the sacred lotus found in Philippine freshwater.
A Pinus kesiya plate from Flora de Filipinas, documenting the Benguet pine of the Philippine highlands.
A Russelia juncea plate from Flora de Filipinas, documenting the firecracker plant cultivated in Philippine gardens.
A 1944 Japanese map of the Philippines from the final year of the wartime occupation.
A survey map of a Philippine military reservation from the American colonial period.
A 1906 map of the Philippine islands from the early years of American colonial administration.
A Theobroma cacao plate from Flora de Filipinas, documenting the cacao tree central to Filipino chocolate.
A 1945 map of the Philippine islands from the final year of the Second World War.
José Honorato Lozano's Alguacil de Pueblo captures the town constable who maintained order in colonial Philippine towns.
