Manuscripts

Hawaiian shipping articles

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Description: Broadside form filled in. A bilingual (English and Hawaiian) broadside documenting the American whaling ship Europa's hiring of Hawaiian crews. The Europa added six native Hawaiians as crew members on 1868 March 24 and 26. The list includes a seaman, a boatsteerer, and four greenhands. Signed by the master of the ship, Thomas Mellen.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1868 March 24 and 26.
Call number: mssHM 84022
Creator: Europa (Ship : 1853-1872)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from McBride Rare Books, February 2020.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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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Hawaiian Antiquities

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The collection contains a wide range of material including research material for his major publications (Hawaiian Antiquities, Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth from Hawaii, and Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula), correspondence, short stories, essays, poetry, Hawaiian mele, notebooks, biographical sketches, diaries, book reviews, land deeds, wills, affidavits, ephemera, photographs and early drafts of Emerson's published work. The majority of the collection was written, collected or translated by Emerson; however, the collection does contain material by other Emerson family members and notable historical figures of Hawaiian history, such as W. D. Alexander, William R. Castle, Abraham Fornander, Davida Malo, Robert W. Wilcox, and several others. The subjects covered in this collection are: Emerson family history; the American Civil War and army hospitals; Hawaiian ethnology and culture; the Hawaiian revolutions of 1893 and 1895; Hawaiian politics; Hawaiian history; Polynesian history; Hawaiian mele; the Hawaiian hula; leprosy and the leper colony on Molokai; and Hawaiian mythology and folklore.

mssEMR 1-1323

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Hawaiian Revolutions of 1893 and 1895

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mssEMR 1-1323

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Long Voyages of the Ancient Hawaiians

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mssEMR 1-1323

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Hawaiian Trust Company, Ltd. 1 letter (1914, Sep. 15) to Henry Pope

Manuscripts

The collection consists of correspondence between Ida May Pope, her sister Anne, and fellow Hawaiians, missionaries and teachers. Some of the letters are written from the island Kosrae (Kusaie), Micronesia. Many of the letters include newspaper clippings or notes including obituaries for Ida May Pope. There are also two receipts. There is also an article about Anne Pope (after her death in 1932). Also included is a copy of Ida May Pope's Last Will & Testament. Subjects included in this collection include: education and teachers in Hawaii (and Kosrae); Hawaiian history and social customs; King David Kalakaua; Kamehameha Girls' School; Queen Liliuokalani; and the leper colony on Molokai.

HM 46991.

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Track of the Sea Witch from New York to San Francisco

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The track is a log of the daily latitude and longitude of the ship during the voyage

mssHM 62930

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