Spanish Records in the Philippine National Archives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2802811 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edgar Wickberg (corresponding author), Edgar B Wickberg |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77 |
| Publication date | 1955-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2509252 |
| OpenAlex | W4252544884 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
T HE PHILIPPINE National Archives is by far the largest archival collection in that republic. It represents one of the two great sources for the study of the 333 years of Spanish rule in the islands-the Archivo General de Indias being the other. Yet less is known about this repository by specialists in Spanish colonial history than about any other large archives in the field. Its very existence has been questioned. That this should be trute even in the United States, despite a long Philippine-American tie, seems surprising. In 1904 the existence of a Philippine Archives and some of the outstancding groups of material in the collection were noted in an article by Worthington C. Ford, at that time chief of the division of manuseripts in the Library of Congress.' James A. Robertson mentioned the collection as a prime repository in the bibliographic volume of the collection of Philippine documents he edited with Emma H. Blair.2 But documents from the Philippilne National Archives were not used in the Blair and Robertson work, or in any other collection of docunments of Philippine history, and the Archives itself has never had funds for the publication of documents. From 1910 to 1915 Robertson served as librarian of the Philippine Library and Museum. During this time he wrote a brief article about the Archives, bringing up to date the information in Ford 's notes.3 These articles, and the informationi furnished in the Annutal Report of the United States Philippine Commission to the President (19011916) did give at least some idea of the collection to interested Americans. But Robertson returned to the United States in 1915 and in
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |