Two men wearinng hats and walking barefoot are carrying luggage. A long bamboo stick is on both of their shoulders, with the luggage hanging from the middle of the bamboo stick. The road is flat and wide, and thatched roof houses (flat on the ground, not on stilts) are on the left side of the photo. Electricity pole and wires run along the street.
Annotation:
Phillipines. 2 cooolies carrying baggage
Cite As:
Gerow D. Brill papers, #1379. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
The content in Selected Images of the Philippines from the Gerow D. Brill papers is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the date creation and the date of the creator’s death, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections. Digitization took place between 2021 and 2022 from glass negatives held in the Gerow D. Brill papers, 1884-1924. For more information about these volumes, please contact the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection (rareref@cornell.edu) at Cornell University Library. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.
