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Map · 1882 · The Philippines

Karte der Philippinen zur Darstellung der ethnographischen Verhältnisse... / entworfen von Prof F. Blumentritt ; bearbeitet... von B. Domam

An old map of the Philippines: The Philippine Islands at 1:3,000,000 coloured to show the ethnographic distribution of the archipelago's peoples, taken from Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, Ergänzungsheft no. 67.
The Philippine Islands at 1:3,000,000 coloured to show the ethnographic distribution of the archipelago's peoples, taken from Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, Ergänzungsheft no. 67.

This 1882 map sorts the country's peoples the way a European scholar of the time did. Its names and groupings are his, not Scene's, and several are no longer used.

Open a larger copyThe full scan is on its record at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Its record

Kind
Map
Made by
Blumentritt, Ferdinand (1853-1913); Domann, Bruno (1854-1920)
Date
1882 · The institution's record
Held by
Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans
Catalogue number
GE D-8828; notice ark:/12148/cb40762752k; Gallica ark:/12148/btv1b84591685
Rights
Public domain
Credit
Blumentritt, Ferdinand (1853-1913); Domann, Bruno (1854-1920), Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans
Named in it
Philippinen
Scene archive number
country-philippines-22
Why Scene may show it
In the public domain by age: made in 1882. Held by Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans.
Source
Its record at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Page updated October 9, 2026. Archive catalog release e205c7180a5b.

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