Pilipino Ako! Promote Your Page Too. Photo taken on September 27, What confuses my untrained eyes and mind is the structure on the left which looks very much like a church. Domingo Church South East side. Instead, we should be seeing a portion of the old UST campus is that how it looked like?
But I dismissed the idea right away since the letters on the sign are not reversed. In the newer map, the northern corner of the area occupied by the old UST campus does not extend anywhere near the Aduana unlike in the older map which provides for an unobstructed view of a street like the one seen on the old photo.
So, what building is that? One more thing that makes me doubt somewhat my conclusions is that the street seen in the old photo is not visible in the recent photograph I took. Has the layout been changed once again after the war? Or am I looking in the wrong direction? From the United States National Archives website :. Therefore, no written permission is required to use them. We would appreciate your crediting the National Archives and Records Administration as the original source. From the University of Texas Libraries website :.
No permissions are needed to copy them. You may download them and use them as you wish. The two-storey structure you see on the left of the old photo is the Hospital de San Juan de Dios. According to the website of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila , the Hospital de San Juan de Dios is the oldest hospital in the Philippines which traces its roots to the arrival of Franciscan missionaries in the country on June 24, All classes in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Santo Tomas used to be held at this hospital from to In addition, Calle Real street shown in the photos used to be one of the busiest streets inside the walled city.
The site of the old hospital is now home to the Lyceum of the Philippines, a school founded by the late President of the Philippines Jose P. Note: The site on which the University of Santo Tomas used to stand is located a couple of blocks away from the Manila Cathedral and is now occupied by the BF Condo building.
