Rare Books
Hawai Shashin chō = Hawaiian Islands
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- Description
- 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).
- Publication date
- Meiji 44 [1911]
- Call number
- 653750
- Provenance
- Purchased from McBride Rare Books, February 2022.
