The Presidential Papers of Manuel L. Quezon has been inscribed to the Philippine Memory of the World Register. The Nomination Form, prepared by Dr. Bernardita R. Churchill, was reviewed by the Philippine Memory of the World Committee (MOWPhil) and accepted for inscription to the National Register last 03 December 2009. According to Dr. Churchill's assessment, the Quezon Papers is probably the richest source in the Philippines for the American period (1898-1946). The collection was willed to the public early in 1942 when the Commonwealth President was evacuated from Corregidor to the United States, after the Japanese bombed the Philippines (in December 1941) and occupied the country (until 1945). After the war, the documents of the Philippine Commonwealth in-exile (in Washington, D.C.), which Vice-President, and later President Sergio Osmeña had apparently screened following Quezon’s death (at Saranac Lake, New York, on August 1, 1944), were added to the main collection, making it a full record of Philippine public affairs from 1907-1944. The Quezon Papers are housed in the National Library of the Philippines, Jose Vargas Museum and Archives of the University of the Philippines, the Library of the Congress of the Philippines, and the Bentley Historical Library of University of Michigan, United States of America.
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