The Snapshots in Time Collection
Zigzag Mountain Road, Likely Kennon Road to Baguio, Benguet Province, Philippines, Early-to-Mid 20th Century
A dramatic switchback road winds through the pine-forested mountains of Benguet Province in this hand-tinted photograph, likely showing the historic Kennon Road built by the U.S. Army to link the lowlands with the hill station of Baguio. Engineered through extraordinarily difficult terrain in the early 1900s, this road became one of the most celebrated feats of American colonial infrastructure in the Philippines. Project: 218613