SOUTH OVER THE PASIG RIVER
 

. The City Hall tower can be seen in the background. Jones Bridge in the foreground.  I have no idea what the name of the monument is.   (National Archives photo )

David "Sarge" Ross, who is working on a military board game "Battle of Manila"  writes:-  "The caption on photo #10 talks about a monument by the Jones Bridge. With all the research I've done on my Battle for Manila project, I've acquired a number of US Army, Navy, and private party photos plus the Archive ones. I have several that show this "monument". However...

If this were the Jones Bridge, from the angle of the photo, you would see the HUGE Post Office Building...It's not there! If you go downriver one bridge, to the Quezon Bridge...the P.O. would be off to the right, out of the photo...to the left, warehouses etc...the City Hall tower in background...and the "monument"...it's the smokestack atop the Insular Ice Plant...I have five or six photos and they all show the same thing.  Magellan's Monument is along the south shore of the Pasig, but it's much closer to the Treasury Building, smaller in size, and white in color...not black. Just thought you'd like to have an answer for your mystery.

 

 

 

  

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