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The Jean Charlot Collection at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is an extensive archive of art works and documents relating to the artist and writer Jean Charlot (1898-1979) and to other artists, intellectuals, and friends he worked with or knew in his long career in France, Mexico, the mainland United States, and Hawaii. This image collection showcases the work of four prominent photographic artists Charlot knew and worked with in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s. Note that many of the titles have bracketed information, this indicates a descriptive title rather than a title given by the photographer. This is just a sampling of the fine art photographs and portraits of Jean Charlot in the…

"Photographs in Connection with the Investigation of Working Conditions of Filipino Laborers on Hawaiian Sugar Plantations, 1926," by Lt. Colonel Robert A. Duckworth-Ford, Aide-de-Camp to Governor-General of the Philippines Leonard Wood. This collection is from Alex Ford of California, grandson of Lt. Colonel Duckworth-Ford. Titles are taken from typed captions present on each photograph. Full text of the report is available here in PDF format.Related reading:Report of the Director of Labor to His Excellency the Governor-General of the Philippine Islands is available here in PDF format. You may be interested in reading Filipino History in Hawaii Before 1946 found…

The Dodie Warren Collection includes 71 different images (as well as 8 proofs and 7 color variations), 3 hand-rocked mezzotint plates, 2 sketchbooks, 5 drawings, 5 portfolios, and award certificates. Dodie Warren (1929-2018) was a key figure in Hawai‘i’s printmaking community. Born in Pittsburgh, she earned a BS degree in zoology from Chatham College in 1950 and became a scientific illustrator for the Felton Design Studio in Washington, D.C. She studied watercolor in San Francisco. In 1965, she moved to Hawai‘i and continued watercolor studies with Hon Chew Hee. She became interested in printmaking after taking a class at the University of Hawai‘i and went on to earn an MFA degree in…

Isami Doi (1903-1965) was a printmaker, painter, jewelry maker and one of Hawaii’s first visual artists to garner an international reputation. He was a mentor to younger artists who blossomed after World War II. He was raised on Kauai and was influenced by its natural beauty throughout his career. He became interested in art at an early age and in the 1920s took University of Hawaii classes in design, drawing and ceramics. His early career as an artist took him to New York. He returned to Kauai before leaving in 1930 to spend several months in Paris.This collection was gifted to Hamilton Library in 2002 with the core material being the personal letters from Isami Doi to his friend and…

Vladimir Ossipoff (1907-1998) was Hawaii's foremost modernist architect with a career spanning more than sixty years. He opened his own firm in 1936 which changed names several times because Ossipoff worked with many of Hawaii's most talented architects. In the 1940s he organized the Associated Architects with Allen Johnson, Philip Fisk, and Alfred Preis. In 1956, architects Gregory Goetz, Alan Rowland and Sidney Snyder joined the firm and later became partners in Ossipoff, Snyder, Rowland and Goetz. The firm worked on over 800 projects from homes to iconic buildings, including the IBM Building, expansion of the Honolulu International Airport, the Pacific Club, Outrigger Canoe Club,…

Here you will find posters from Southeast Asia countries; Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, The Philippines, and many more. Our collection houses various types of posters, from socio-political, environmental, to radio and TV promotion.Note: Material may be subject to copyright; it is the responsibility of the user to determine restrictions, give appropriate attribution and/or obtain permission for reproduction or use.

The visually stunning propaganda posters produced by the new Soviet government from 1917 onward are fairly well-known. Communist Party slogans to the masses were featured. There are many books on the subject, and several good collections now available on the internet: Hoover Institution, Duke University, New York Public Library, Swarthmore, Library of Congress, and so on. There are also sites on Yandex in Russian.Our collection of 145 posters covers the Cold War period: roughly the end of World War II until Gorbachev’s perestroika/glasnost era (1984), and a few into the late 1980s. Socialist realism art and utopian images of life in the Soviet Union dominate. Political propaganda,…

3 Hawaii lanternslides are listed in the 1917 publication Visual Education Through Stereographs and Lantern Slides: School Work Visualized and Vitalized on page 16 in the Geographical Classification section "Outlying Possessions of the United States": 259 (10154) Luxuriant vegetation in the Mauna Loa Valley, Hawaii; 260 (10161) With the flag goes the public school - Royal School, Honolulu, Hawaii; 261 (10156) Pretty hula girls. Honolulu, Hawaii.Information about Ray Jerome Baker lantern slides is available in wikipediaThe lantern slides in this collection were donated to the UHM Library by two donors: the Seiju and Ayako Ifuku family of Honolulu, and Jerry Drew of Monterey, California.

In 2002, the library acquired the Hawaiian music collection of Dirk Vogel, who had been collecting Hawaiian music since the 1920s. The collection contains 6,000 78s, 2,650 LPs, 900 45s and thousands of other items.Also in 2002, the library received a bequest of 2,533 Hawaiian music recordings from the estate of James Grant Cathro of Glasgow, Scotland, who died in 1999. Mr. Cathro collected the recordings, with special interest in steel guitar music, over the course of many years. This collection contains 2,056 phonodiscs (33-1/3, 45 and 78 RPM speeds); 236 cassettes and various other recordings. The Vogel and Cathro collections serve as the foundation of the Hawaiian Music Collection, which…

Treasures from the Library are located in all collections. This site includes examples from the:Asia Collection China Japan Korea Russia South Asia Southeast Asia Charlot Collection Hawai'i War Records Depository Hawaiian Collection Manuscripts Maps Pacific Collection University Archives This site contains images of objects originally displayed in a 2005 exhibition at the UH Art Gallery. A 163-page catalog Making connections : treasures from the University of Hawai'i Library was published for the exhibition. Some print copies are available for purchase from the University of Hawai'i Library. Full text of the item descriptions are available for download from Scholarspace, the Library's…