| Item Call Number |
ME00116 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
ME00116 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - ME00116
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| Main Entry |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Moncado Monument
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| General Note |
- General note - Monument of Hilario Camino Moncado, before the fire of January 6, 1960, was said to revolve facing the sun at all times. This was done with the aid of a mechanical device hidden from view. One of the most colorful personalities of the 1930's, Moncado was born in the poor barrio of Pondol, Balamba, Cebu. While still young, he left the country and went to Hawaii as a laborer, and then U.S. as a labor leader. He organized successfully the Filipino Federation of America, and returned to the Philippines in 1933; he became the official timekeeper of the Constitutional Convention as the delegate-elect from Cebu. He was the first Filipino the have traveled across the Pacific as a passenger on the "Hawaii clipper" of the Pan American Airways from the U.S. to the Philippines on October 27, 1936.
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| Additional Physical Form Available Note |
- Additional physical form available note - With prints
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| Immediate Source Of Acquisition Note |
- Source of acquisition - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Ownership And Custodial History |
- History - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - 1970
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Monuments and markers
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1970
- Focus term - amrt
- Focus term - equifilibricum
- Focus term - hilario camino moncado
- Focus term - lanao del sur
- Focus term - marawi
- Focus term - mindanao
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