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Includes documents related to the Philippine Revolutionary and Philippine-American war efforts, including a war bond issued to Catalino Angelo for 10 pesos at 6% interest by the Revolutionary Government; some notes by Andrés Cacho[?] concerning war financing; and a military inventory list signed by Revolutionary Government treasurer Silvestre Legaspi. Also includes an order issued in Tagalog. Partial geographical list: Philippines, Manila (Philippines), Malolos (Philippines), Bolinao (Luzon, Philippines), Masbate y Ticao/Tikao (Philippines), Zamboanga (Philippines).

Includes four full length portrait/group portrait photographs, two on mounts of Manila photographers. Includes Gregorio Aglipay (in military uniform), with him "Carmen" and "Mercado," and other military officials. Philippine Liberation Army. Partial geographical list: Philippines, Manila (Philippines).

Bean in a small manila envelope with a contemporary manuscript statement, "One of the beans filled with lead, that a Filip[ino] woman was caught smuggling [th]rough the lines." Philippine-American War, arms smuggling, military applications for legumes.

Includes blank stationery with stamped/printed header of the Philippine Revolutionary Government or Katipunan, together with the envelopes in which they were placed. One of the envelopes also contains an excerpt from an American broadsheet paper (possibly a religious paper) that argues the Katipunan is irrevocably tainted by Freemasonry. Philippine Revolutionary Government, Kataastaasan Kagalang-galang na Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (KKK, Philippines). Partial geographical list: Philippines.

Depositions by purported witnesses of the American murder of unarmed Filipinos after the (First) Battle of Caloocan in 1899. War crimes, military hearings, courts-martial. Partial geographical list: Caloocan/Kalookan (Manila region, Philippines), Topeka (Kan.).

Consists of notes home from Thomas M. Bennett to his family in Indiana while he was stationed in the Philippines alongside the 4th U.S. Cavalry. In early 1900, two messages from Bennett's commanding officers were sent to his family informing them that he had died of typhoid in San Miguel, had been given full military honours, and would have his body returned to the United States at their first opportunity. Soldiers' letters, counterinsurgency, guerrilla warfare, battlefield deaths by disease. Partial geographical list: Lafayette (Ind.), San Francisco (Cebu, Philippines), San Miguel de Mayumo (Bulacan, Philippines), San Isidro [likely Nueva Ecija] (Philippines).

Consists of notes sent by George Briggs to his mother R.E. Briggs and his younger brother John, both in Denver, while George was being deployed from San Francisco to Manila in the Philippine-American War. In 1899, Briggs's regiment was deployed into the forests of Malolos and then to a more comfortable environment in Pampanga. Letters became sparse as George was sent to Luzon, but in late 1899 or early 1900 he was struck with a fever and sent to a hospital on Corregidor. He made several comments about the fact that illness was rife among the U.S. military stationed in the Philippines before returning to San Francisco (Calif.) in 1901. The file also includes a register of letters. Counterinsurgency, guerrilla warfare, soldiers' letters, disease in war. Partial geographical list: Denver (Colo.), San Francisco (Calif.), Camp Miller (San Francisco, Calif.), Manila Bay, Camp Dewey (Manila), Malolos (Philippines), San Fernando (Pampanga, Philippines), Angeles (Luzon, Philippines), Corregidor (Manila region).

Consists of letters sent by Benjamin Franklin ("Frank") Cheatham (who was promoted from Major to Colonel over the course of the war) of the 1st Tennessee Infantry, generally to someone in Tennessee named Mamie, during his time at the front. He expresses a deep curiosity about the Philippines and developed a love for cacao nuts and pearl fishing, but in October 1899 his unit was attacked in the hills south of Pasig and saw their first deaths, before being deployed into the forests for months at a time. In early 1900, as fighting subsided, Cheatham noted greater luck and comfort. Counterinsurgency, guerrilla warfare, pearl fishing, soldiers' letters. Partial geographical list: Tennessee, Manila, Iloilo (Ilo Ilo, Philippines), Pasig (Manila area), Calamba (Laguna, Philippines), Rosario (Philippines), Mauban (Quezon, Philippines).

Letters sent by Lt. Harry Gray to his brother from his station in Tabaco (which Gray spells Tobaco). Letters note the brutality of the military campaign, a volcanic eruption, and (in the second) Gray's increasingly nauseated attitude to the war. 1st Lieut. and Battalion Adj. 47th Army Infantry. Volcano, counterinsurgency, guerrilla warfare, soldiers' letters. Partial geographical list: Tabaco (Albay, Philippines).