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Snapshot photographs

Description: A collection of 56 black and white snapshot photographs mounted on pages of a photograph album. The photographs depict people, activities, and scenery on the islands of Kaua'i and O'ahu, Hawai'i in approximately 1910. The photographs include Native Hawaiians and a thatched building, Chinese and Japanese laborers, and agriculture such as rice fields, sugarcane, and a pineapple plantation. Nearly all of the photographs are labeled with handwritten captions. One caption refers to the visitors camping in the mountains of Kaua'i at "Mr. Gay's" during Halley's Comet. Images of Honolulu include Diamond Head, Pearl Harbor, Iolani Palace, and Waikiki. There are also group photographs of travelers onboard the SS Mongolia and SS Wilhelmina traveling from "San Francisco to Honolulu." One album page has two photographs of the "Grizzly Giant" tree in Yosemite Valley, California.
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Production date: approximately 1910.
Call number: photCL 744

Photographs of Kaua'i and O'ahu, Hawai'i

Visual Materials

A collection of 56 black and white snapshot photographs mounted on pages of a photograph album. The photographs depict people, activities, and scenery on the islands of Kaua'i and O'ahu, Hawai'i in approximately 1910. The photographs include Native Hawaiians and a thatched building, Chinese and Japanese laborers, and agriculture such as rice fields, sugarcane, and a pineapple plantation. Nearly all of the photographs are labeled with handwritten captions. One caption refers to the visitors camping in the mountains of Kaua'i at "Mr. Gay's" during Halley's Comet. Images of Honolulu include Diamond Head, Pearl Harbor, Iolani Palace, and Waikiki. There are also group photographs of travelers onboard the SS Mongolia and SS Wilhelmina traveling from "San Francisco to Honolulu." One album page has two photographs of the "Grizzly Giant" tree in Yosemite Valley, California.

photCL 744

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Hotoku Inafuku photograph album

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This photograph album documents the Inafuku family's life in Hawai'i. The album was presumably compiled by Hotoku Inafuku, who took many of the photographs as well as wrote the captions in the album. The photographs depict Hotoku, his wife Lillian, their children, extended family, and friends. Hotoku and Lillian seem to have three or four children whose names might be Hide, Donald "Yoshio", Caroline, and Lorraine. The photographs depict family portraits, social activities, school related meetings and activities, scenic views around Hawai'i, sugarcane and pineapple fields, and views of the family's garden and numerous orchid plants. Hawaiian locations across multiple islands are represented and include but are not limited to Honolulu, Panalu'u Valley, Kahuku, L+huʻe, Waimea, Mauna Kea, Hilo, Kekaha, Hα'ena. Additionally, there are a few images captured in Osaka and Nago, Japan. Also included are four images of newspaper pages from 1941 announcing Japan's entry into World War II. The album contains 387 photographs and photographic postcards.

photCL 757

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Snapshots

Manuscripts

The four-page letter from Theodore K. Griffin to his brother Byron describes the sugarcane plantations, geography, local vegetation, and Indigenous populations in Luzon, Philippines. The 33 snapshots and 4 photographic post cards depict local Indigenous groups including Igorot children, American soldiers, airplanes, and an aviation wreck. Many of the photographs have handwritten descriptions on the back and some of the people identified are: Brigadier General Hagood; Brigadier General Mitchell; Colonel Hand; and "Chief Lucas," a local Indigenous man given that title by General Hagood. Please note that this collection contains historical images and language that library users may find harmful, offensive, or inappropriate.

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Los Angeles to Honolulu on United States government ships

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Alt title: A new route to Honolulu on U.S. government ships. "J.H. Kemble"--typed owner's note along bottom of back cover. Government service history for the SS City of Los Angeles and SS City of Honolulu, promotion of their new route to Hawaii under LASSCO, descriptions of Hawaii, and a plan of the SS City of Los Angeles.

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[Album of photographs and snapshots of the Vermejo club and surroundings]

Rare Books

An album with approximately 250 photographs of the Vermejo Club and ranch in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, with views of the central buildings and landscape. Photographs of the exteriors and interiors of buildings are all on the first 17 pages of the album, with scenes of families at rest, playing tennis, and practicing archery. The interiors of the buildings are lavishly decorated, particularly the large hall that appears in several photographs and has a pool table, bear skin rug, and taxidermied wolf. Other rooms shown include bedrooms, sitting rooms, a bathroom, and an office. The photographs also include landscape scenes and various activities of ranch life, including horseback riding, hunting, and fishing. Outdoor scenery includes ponds and streams, wooded areas, and rock formations. One of the photographs appears to show the taxidermied wolf from the great hall posed outdoors, as though it is a wild animal.

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Group photographs and snapshots

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The Patton Family Collection consists of 156 glass plate negatives, 218 film negatives, 875 photographs, and a negative book, 1885-1945 (bulk 1895-1907), created and/or collected by members of the Patton family and friends. Also included are photographs of Lake Vineyard II taken in 1971. The collection provides an intimate look into the private lives of one of Southern California's prominent families around the turn of the twentieth century. In addition to the images created by Ann Wilson, the collection includes photographs created by Joseph Harrison Lamson, Frank G. Schumacher, George Steckel, and James D. Westervelt.

photCL 282

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