Charles E. Doty photographs relating to Cuba and the Philippines
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 73-26A
name: label: Creator
content: Doty, Charles Edward, 1862-1921
label: Names
content: Bilibid Prison (Manila, Philippines)
label: Names
content: United States. Army
label: Photographer
content: De la Carreros, Gomes
label: Depicted
content: Estrada Palma, Tomás, 1835-1908
place: label: Place
content: Havana Bay (Cuba)
label: Place
content: Manila (Philippines)
label: Place
content: Havana (Cuba)
topic: label: Topic
content: Church buildings
label: Topic
content: Fortification
label: Topic
content: Cemeteries
creator: label: Creator
content: Doty, Charles Edward, 1862-1921
culture: label: Culture
content: Cubans
label: Culture
content: Filipinos
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Charles Edward Doty (1862-1921) was born in Ohio and began his career as a portrait photographer in Hamilton.  He joined Company C of the 2nd US Volunteer Engineers as the company's photographer and traveled to Cuba with the unit.  Following the Spanish-American War, Doty was a civilian employee posted with the Engineers Department, Division (later Department) of Havana, Military Government of Cuba.  As the "official photographer of the United States government in Havana," his duties included documenting the modernization of Cuba under American governorship.  Though Doty's work was interrupted by the termination of military govenrment in 1902, he returned during renewed American control in 1907-1908.  In 1904, Doty entered the Philippine civil service, where he worked as a photoengraver for the Bureau of Printing.  Aside from a break in 1907-1908, he remained in the Philippines until 1920, when illness forced his return to the United States.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 509 Items (circa 509 negatives and positives, glass)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1898-1912
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The photographs were probably donated to the United States National Museum by Charles Doty in 1912 (USNM accession 54342). They were turned over to the Smithsonian's central photographic laboratory in the early to mid 20th century. They were returned to the Department of Anthropology in 1973.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.73-26A
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogate is available online. Copy negatives of some photographs are available with the collection.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made and collected by Charles Edward Doty during his time stationed in Cuba (1899-1902) and the Philippines (1904-1906).  Some of the Cuban photographs are marked by the Engineer's Department, with which Doty was employed, and some may relate to his official activities.  The bulk of the photographs document the city of Havana as well as the harbor and ships (including wreckage of the USS Maine), American military personnel and installations, Spanish forts, a garotting machine and demonstration of its use, and the inauguration of President Tomas Estrada Palma.  There are also images of reconcentradoes, farm families, and people involved in transportation, industry, and commerce.  Most of the photographs were taken by Doty, but a few were obtained from other photographers, including a Mr. Miles and Gomez de la Carreros.

Doty's photographs made in the Philippines document the old walls and gates of Manila, churches, Bilibid prison, and Fort Santiago.  There are also some portraits of Filipino people.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Doty photographs are held in National Anthropological Archies Photo Lot 97, Photo Lot 8, Photo Lot 87-20, and in the Herbert William Krieger Papers.