The Snapshots in Time Collection

Aerial View of Fort Santiago and the Walled City (Intramuros), Manila, Philippines

Aerial View of Fort Santiago and the Walled City (Intramuros), Manila, Philippines

A hand-tinted aerial view of Fort Santiago and the Walled City of Intramuros, Manila, taken looking down on the Pasig River mouth. Souvenir photographs like this were popular among U.S. servicemen stationed in the Philippines in the decades before and after World War II, documenting the historic Spanish colonial fortress that would later be devastated in the 1945 Battle of Manila. Project: 218608