Photographs of Manila/PH by Photographer Oswald Lubeck

Photographs of Manila/PH by Onboard German Photographer Oswald Lubeck for the Hamburg-America Line (Now Hapag-Lloyd AG), During Its World Tour, 1911-1913 (Via Saxon State Library).

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Hapag (HAPAG) tourists posing in and around a car with a local driver and children in front of traditional houses.

Tourist group after the arrival of a Hapag ocean-going passenger ship, local children and a local uniformed man at the entrance to the hall of Pier 5.

Tourists posing with a horse-drawn carriage and local driver in front of a hall after the arrival of a Hapag ocean-going passenger steamer.

Tourist group after the arrival of a Hapag ocean-going passenger steamer in front of the hall of Pier 5 before their departure by passenger vehicles.

Members of a Filipino family including an older woman with a toddler, a small boy with a cigarette in his mouth, and two women.

Street vendors, mostly children, sit on the roadside and offer their wares from round baskets.

A boy, local men of different ages and a tourist in front of a simple hut.

Street scene with cockfighting.

Local man with an ox team.

Street scene in front of Quiapo Church.

Same. Note: Cheesetorian chose to add this to show the cable lines that are visible in this pic.

Las Pinas City. St. Joseph Church. Partial view of the nave and bell tower. Home of the famous bamboo organ.

Native hut.

Tourists and locals at Pier 5 before embarking at the port of Manila, 1910.

World travel. Manila. Street scene with oxcarts. Note: Cheesetorian looked up the store in the picture at old directories, and the address for Kwong Lee Yuen, US Grocery is 353-355 Echague St. (now C. Palanca St.) in Quiapo.

Passenger steamer 'Ysabel' LHN 812 on a river.

Wreck of a Spanish warship, 1911/1913. Note: these were wreck of warships sunk in the 1898 Battle of Manila Bay; the wrecks sat on the bay for decades, and became a tourist attraction until they were taken out sometime in the 1920s-30s and following land reclamations.

Anda St. Manila. Note: These buildings and the connecting bridge was destroyed in the WWII.

Houses on Pasig R. near Manila.

Private Residence, Manila.

You can see how many of the residence of Manila used to use the river: as a highway. The ramps were used for river boats that dropped of residents off in this case a relatively wealthy river side residence. Billowing smoke at the back showed the industrialization of the city.

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