[2] Equally valuable to the researcher or historian, are the thousands of miscellaneous documents – pamphlets, reports, articles, and other items that had been collected – as well as the AHC’s unparalleled files of photographs.

[2] In 1950, US Ambassador Myron Cowen, who saw the devastation wrought by the Second World War on many things, including the memory of the times preceding it, encouraged the American community to donate books and other materials pertaining to the first half of the 20th century.

The AHC was first housed at the U.S. Embassy, then above the Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center in Makati.

Ambassador John Negroponte, the AHCF inherited the responsibilities of the American Historical Committee.

The Rizal Library is committed to preserve the collection, following the high standards it uses when conserving its own holdings.