Philinda Rand

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Philinda Parsons Rand Anglemyer (1876–1972) was an American English-language teacher in the Philippines. She was among the pioneering five-hundred Thomasites who landed on the shores of the Philippines in August 1901 on board the U.S. sea vessel, USS Thomas, a converted cattle ship. She is a native of Somerville, Massachusetts, and was a graduate of Radcliffe College (class of 1899). The tall and slender Rand was only twenty-three when she went to the Philippines, right after graduating from Radcliffe College. She wrote journals and letters to her relatives in the U.S. while in the Philippines. During her tenure as an English teacher in the Philippines, she also took pictures that show many aspects of the life in the Philippines at the start of the twentieth century. Most of these photographs were taken mostly in Silay and Lingayen where she resided. Her pictures include people, students, missionaries, buildings, animals, and sceneries from 1901 to 1907. Her journals, letters and photographs are now deposited at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe College.