The ruined front facade of the Minor Basilica and Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Manila, which was destroyed by the Japanese in 1945.

The ruined front facade of the Minor Basilica and Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Manila, which was destroyed by the Japanese in 1945. The photographer was on a run ashore from the tanker Caltex Melbourne (1945). A vertical format negative.

Object Details

ID: P50009
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bird, Henry P.
Date made: 31 July - 4 August 1955
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection
Measurements: Overall: 70 mm x 46 mm