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The site contains images of graphic designs used in Japanese advertisements during the 1920s.The images were published in 1928 as supplements to the publication, Shoten zuan senshu 商店図案撰集(advertisement designs) by the now-defunct Shotenkai 商店界. The Library accession record indicates that the supplement was donated by Bishop Yemyo Imamura Memorial Library of Honpa Honguanji Hawaii 本派本願寺in 1939.No information is available on individual graphic designs. The titles were created by the Library Asia Collection staff to identify each image. All the categories have been assigned by the Asia Collection staff based on the image.ResourcesNanba, Koji 難波功士, “Showa…

Unpublished drawings by Jean Charlot originally created for Paul Claudel's A Travers les Vitraux de Apocalypse and related textual materials held by the Jean Charlot Collection, University of Hawai'i Library.Drawings are described by the chapter and page numbers written on the original source. Paul Claudel and Jean Charlot met in 1928 and collaborated on many published projects. However, the largest project they planned has remained unpublished: an illustrated version of Claudel's A Travers des Vitraux de Apocalypse. Claudel sketched and described the illustrations he wanted, and Charlot acted as a kind of artistic medium to realize them. The drawings are, therefore, a unique witness to the…

About Pat Saiki (1930- ) Patricia “Pat” Fukuda was born a third generation Japanese American in Hilo, Hawaiʻi on May 28, 1930 and graduated from Hilo High School in 1948. She earned a B.S. degree from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1952, working her way through college as a flight attendant, babysitter, and sales clerk.  She was a teacher in Honolulu from 1956 to 1968 at Punahou School, Kaimuki Intermediate School and Kalani High School.  She married Stanley M. Saiki, a physician, and they had five children—Stanley, Jr., Sandra, Margaret, Stuart and Laura. Beginning in the 1960s, Saiki held several offices in the Hawaiʻi Republican Party and was a member of…

In summer of 1966, Joan Griffis was recruited by the National Association of Broadcasters to work as an on-air teacher in American Samoa. For the next two years, she worked in Pago Pago, American Samoa, teaching English as a second language, with her lessons being broadcast to high schools on all of the American Samoan islands. She then spent an additional two years at the Feleti Teacher Training school—later the American Samoan Community College—where she and a small staff worked closely with Samoan high school students, helping them prepare for college on the mainland, while also conducting teacher training classes. In 1970, she returned to the continental United States. Over the…

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.

Scanned photographs from two overland trips in China (1987 and 1988). The first trip began with a 2-day ferry from Kobe, Japan to Shanghai, and ended in Hong Kong. The second trip began in Hong Kong and ended with a train ride from Beijing to Moscow (through Mongolia) on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Travel on both trips was by train, long-distance bus, and once (Kunming to Jinghong, Xishuangbanna) by hitchhiking.

The album contains the passport applications for 165 people who wished to return to their native country. Every person was required to submit a photograph, and details on where they were born and when, what work they did in Russia, year and name of ship on which they came to Hawaii, what work they did here, how many children, and their religion.

This collection of posters covers the late 1960s to 70s. There are a wide variety of topics dealing with film, children, travel, architecture, Copernicus, economics, printing, graphics, folklore, archeology, and WWII commemoration. A useful background to Polish posters in general may be found at https://www.illustrationhistory.org/essays/reflecting-the-soul-of-a-nation-polish-poster-art

The Trust Territory Archives Photograph Collection is a unique resource of 50,000 photographs and 2,000 slides that documents the history of the American period in Micronesia (1947-1988), and includes invaluable visual representations of island cultures. Much of this material was salvaged from the former Trust Territory Headquarters on Saipan, and owes its very existence to the persistence of former Trust Territory Archivist Sam McPhetres and his team, who were engaged in microfilming the files of the American administration.The Trust Territory Archives Photograph Collection is made up of two separate collections. The largest set (originally housed in 126 binders) contains photographs by the…

The photographs were taken by Tom Klobe primarily in 1978 using a 35 mm Nikon F and Nikon 300mm Zoom Telephoto lens.