Taken in 1923, this photograph depicts 'Bottomside,' the low-elevation civilian and commercial district of Corregidor Island in Manila Bay, Philippines. Nipa and wood-frame houses climb the hillside above a waterfront lined with piers and native outrigger boats, illustrating daily life on the island nearly two decades before Corregidor became a heavily fortified U.S. Army harbor defense post and the scene of pivotal fighting during the 1942 fall of the Philippines and its 1945 recapture. Project: 218703