This panoramic photograph captures a large-scale military review on the parade ground of a U.S. Army post in Manila, Philippine Islands, during the American colonial era preceding World War II. Massed ranks of troops, likely U.S. Army garrison forces or Philippine Scouts, stand in formation before a long, arcaded barracks building characteristic of American military construction in the tropics. Civilian spectators in white tropical dress look on from the shaded foreground, reflecting the social rituals of colonial garrison life in the Philippines during the 1920s and 1930s. Project: 218614