This research underscores how industrial labor in the Philippine prisons became a unique component of American craft traditions during US imperialism. Focused on wicker furniture produced for global markets, this research reveals how craft was an integral facet of an American colonial imaginary.
Selected works
bilibid prison catalog; page from the 1912 "Catalogue of products of the Industrial Division of Bilibid Prison: and general information," in the digital collection The United States and its Territories, 1870 - 1925: The Age of Imperialism at the University of Michigan Library Digital Collections.
incarcerated mother in peacock chair; Mother and Child, Bilibid Prison, part of the Charles E. Doty photographs relating to Cuba and the Philippines at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, circa 1896-1912
Bureau of Prison wicker department; Excerpted image from the 1912 "Catalogue of products of the Industrial Division of Bilibid Prison: and general information" in the digital collection The United States and its Territories, 1870 - 1925: The Age of Imperialism at the University of Michigan Library Digital Collections.
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