Hawaii War Records Depository Photos
The Hawaii War Records Depository (HWRD), which was established at the University of Hawaii Library in 1943, is an extensive collection of materials that document life in Hawaii during World War II. The HWRD includes 880 photographs taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps and the U.S. Navy during World War II. These photographs, taken between 1941 and 1946, document the impact of World War II in Hawaii. They depict Army and Navy activities in Hawaii and illustrate the military's relationship with…
Images from the Hawai‘i Congressional Papers Collection
The Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection comprises the archives of Hawaiʻi’s delegates to the U.S. Congress from statehood in 1959 to the present. Collections include letters, photographs, speeches, memos, reports, schedules, and other documents created in the course of the members’ work, as well as material relating to the members’ campaigns and pre- and post-Congress lives. These collections offer a window into Hawai‘i’s--and the nation’s--20th- and 21st-century political…
Patricia F. Saiki Papers
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…
Senator Daniel K. Inouye Papers
About Daniel K. Inouye (1924-2012) The son of Hyotaro and Kame Inouye, Daniel Ken Inouye was born in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi on September 7, 1924. He was a graduate of McKinley High School in Honolulu with ambitions on becoming a physician. Due to his interest in medicine, Inouye served as a medical volunteer during the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. He joined the United States Army after the enlistment ban was lifted for Japanese Americans. He served in the highly decorated 442nd…
Social Movements
The Social Movements Collection consists of pamphlets, brochures, and periodicals about the labor movement in the United States as well as global radical political movements, including anarchism, communism, and fascism. The bulk of this collection was acquired by the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library in 1966 from Eugene Bechtold, a bookseller and former instructor at the Chicago Workers' School. Mr. Bechtold began collecting this material in the 1920s; also included are items from the…
Tom Klobe Collection: Anatolian (Turkish) Architecture and Art
The photographs were taken by Tom Klobe primarily in 1978 using a 35 mm Nikon F and Nikon 300mm Zoom Telephoto lens.
Tom Klobe Collection: Cappella Palatina
The central ceiling of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Sicily was constructed and painted between 1140 and 1143, followed by the side aisle ceilings that were completed by 1180. The Norman king Roger II (r. 1130–1154) built the chapel. The Cappella Palatina represents the visual amalgamation of three distinct cultures. It combines a Latin basilica plan with a Byzantine central plan where the domed sanctuary and the walls of the nave and aisles are covered with Byzantine mosaics, but the…