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Hawai shōkai shashinchō

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Description: Black and white photographic illustrations of Hawaii. Captions in Japanese and English. Depicts cultural and business landmarks, as well as natural features. Honolulu and Oahu are the most prominently featured, but Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Hawaii are also shown. Agriculture businesses are also shown with images from sugar cane plantations, pineapple, coffee and rice farms.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1930].
Call number: 653597
Provenance: Purchased from Asia Bookroom, July 2021.
Dimensions: 20 x 28 cm
Associated organization: Nippu Jiji Co.

Maui - Oahu - Hawaii

Manuscripts

Bound in black faux animal skin. A fleur de lis graphic element is embossed on the center of the cover, and below that the title, "Maui - Oahu - Hawaii." The number "52" is affixed to the top of spine with glue. Album contains photos of Jack and Charmian London's travels through Hawaii in 1907, including volcanoes, plantations, and Hawaiian people they met along the way.

JLP 490

Oahu

Manuscripts

Album is bound in brown faux animal skin material. A fleur de lis graphic element is embossed in center of cover, and below that the title, "Oahu" is embossed in gold lettering. The number "51" is affixed to top of spine with glue. Photos are of the London's 1907 stay on Oahu, including yacht races, visits with friends, sugar and pineapple plantations, and schools on those plantations.

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Shinsen Hawai Chizu / Ichimei Hawai Annai / 新撰布哇地圖。一名布哇案内

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Covers Oahu, Maui, Kaui, Hawai'i and the island chain of Hawaiʻi. Shows topics of interest to the Japanese visitor or immigrant to Hawaiʻi including: population demographics of Japanese on the different islands; places of interest, average temperatures, list of Buddhist religious centers, Japanese primary schools, charts of distances between places on the Islands (for example: from Honolulu to Lihue). Text also contains traveler's advice for immigration, entry/re-entry into Hawaiʻi. The outer border consists of blocks of text and graphics containing advertisements from Japanese businesses, including bicycle shops, Western (European) clothing and hat stores, bakeries, hotels, grocery stores and photography studios.

646987

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Hawai Shashin chō = Hawaiian Islands

Rare Books

Comprised of full-page halftone reproductions of photographs, this photobook focuses on Japanese American communities in Hawaii. A majority of images are of Japanese-American sugar plantation and processing plants, as well as depictions of agricultural laborers in taro, coffee and other crops. Portraits of notables such as President Taft and Queen Likliokalani and other political and civic leaders are included. Other images are of important Hawaiian landmarks and of various Japanese group activities such as Buddhist groups, baseball team and Japanese schools. Indigenous Hawaiians are also depicted at a feast (luau) and outside of a traditional thatched house (hale).

653750

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Ewa Plantation, Oahu, Hawaii

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An album with 26 photographs of the Ewa Plantation on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, as well as other Hawaiian locations. Views of the Ewa Plantation show workers reaping sugar cane in the fields and working in the processing plant and a family home on the plantation grounds. Photographs of other locations show street vendors and the executive building in Honolulu, the leper settlement on Molokai, and Diamond Head. Some of the photographs are the work of J. J. Williams of Honolulu.

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A New and General Plan of the Hope Estate in the Parishes of Kingston and St. Andrew, Jamaica, the Property of His Grace The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. / Surveyed in the Year 1826 by Edwd. McGeachy

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Hope Estate in 1826 with outline of fields, other plantations, including Papine, Mona, and Hall's Delight, the City of Kingston, and "Merrymans Hill in Coffee". There is also a inset with two illustrations of the division of water to various estates. Scale is 20 chains to one inch.

mssST West Indies Box 11 [map 1826a]

Hawai shōkai shashinchō

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