Content note: Photograph of two dead Filipino soldiers. This object is shown as it was published. Why
"A Sacrifice to Aguinaldo's Ambition" (commercial stereograph, 1899)
A commercial stereograph sold to American households shows two dead Filipino soldiers behind their trenches at Malabon, captioned as a sacrifice to one man's ambition rather than a battlefield loss in a war both sides were fighting.
- Date
- 1899
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Underwood & Underwood (Strohmeyer & Wyman, publishers)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Mckinley Administration
- Leader
- William Mckinley
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism, Media and information
- Event
- Philippine American War
- Techniques
- Card stackingName-calling
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published in the U.S. in 1899; LOC: no known restrictions on publication)
Underwood & Underwood (Strohmeyer & Wyman, publishers), "A Sacrifice to Aguinaldo's Ambition - Behind the Filipino Trenches after the Battle of Malabon, P.I.", stereograph, 1899; LC-DIG-stereo-1s48247
Text on the object
Strohmeyer & Wyman, Publishers, New York, N.Y. Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London, Toronto Canada, Ottawa Kansas. A Sacrifice to Aguinaldo's Ambition—Behind the Filipino Trenches after the Battle of Malabon, P. I. Copyright 1899 by Underwood & Underwood.
The card is a stereograph (two near-identical side-by-side photographs); the printed publisher/distributor lines run in cursive type along the left and right card margins, and the descriptive caption runs along the bottom, all transcribed once rather than duplicated per panel.
