The Save Our Surf (SOS) digital collection consists of unpublished material from the SOS organization - an environmental, social, political, and cultural movement that contributed to the contemporary Hawaiian Sovereignty movement. Note: Copyright is retained by the creators of these materials, their descendants, or the repository if copyright has been signed over, as stipulated by United States copyright law. It is the responsibility of the user to determine any copyright restrictions, obtain…

Images scanned from slides of flowers, seeds, leaves, plants used in making Hawaiian lei. Slides and digital images donated by Jim Hollyer, Program Manager, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific (ADAP), College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii. More information about these plants may be found online:Native Plants HawaiiHawaiian Native Plant Propagation DatabasePlants of Hawaii (Images by Forest & Kim Star)Weed Risk Assessments for Hawaii and…

Images of "tourist travel" to and in Hawaii from 1956 and the early 1970s taken by Leslie Sheraton, described as "an avid photographer". The slides were in the possession of Leslie Sheraton until his death in 1978. His son, Don Sheraton then inherited the records until his death in 2003, when they passed into the custody of his widow, Kathy Ingraham, who donated the slides to the Hawaiian Collection at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2012.

This album was put together by Henry Warner while he served in the US Army at Schofield Barracks in what was then the Territory of Hawaii. Commentary about the pictures is by his son, Gary View the album in PDF format

A collection of black and white photographs of scenic sites and identifiable landmarks in Hawaii. Images are from a variety of albums and scrapbooks acquired by or donated to the University of Hawaii Library Hawaiian Collection. If captions or notes were available those have been used to "title" the photos. Descriptive titles were provided when no captions or notes were present.

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…

This collection of images is based on the slide images and research material produced and gathered by Lisa Schattenburg-Raymond in 1983. The original material consists of a 3-ring binder of slides and text titled A Pictorial Illustration of Hawaiian Kalo Varieties at Lyon Arboretum with descriptions from Taro Varieties in Hawaii.The binder contains a dedication page which reads:This project is dedicated to Don Anderson.His lifes work has been devoted to the collection, propagation,…

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…

Scrapbook containing photographs taken in Hawaii by Hazel Williams Gill between June 8, 1929 and June 21, 1930. Also contains other memorabilia of her Los Angeles-Hawaii round-trip such as cruise ship menus and programs, map, passenger lists, postcards, telegram, and baggage tag. Additional photographs and newspaper clippings also added to scrapbook after the completion of the trip.

The Hawaiian Collection, University of Hawaii at Manoa received an album of photographs from the Margaret S. Fitzharris Trust, Trust & Investment Services, Mount Dora, Florida, via Dana Myers (former Library Development Officer) in 2012. Donor may be "Margaret S Fitzharris: 02 Feb 1911-08 Sep 2005, last residing in Zellwood, FL".* The Hawaiian Collection has no information about the Fitzharris family. The photographs appear to date from the early 1900's. They may have been collected by…

"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…

Research materials on the anatomy of the pineapple, Ananas cosmosus (L.) Merr.. Volume II - The Vegetative Organs before Floral Differentiation and Volume III ... Original research files from Beatrice R. Krauss used to write the following articles: Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Pineapple, Ananas comosus (L.) Merr Merr. I. Introduction, Organography, the Stem, and the Lateral Branch or Axillary Buds Botanical Gazette, Vol. 110, No. 2 (Dec., 1948), pp. 159-217, Stable URL:…

A collection of black and white and hand-colored photographs of scenic sites and identifiable landmarks in Hawaii, programs, tickets, etc. Scrapbook documents the summer trip of "Miss Rae Chadwick and Miss Norma Stewart, Weber county school teachers" who travelled on the S.S. Malolo to Hawaii in 1935. The scrapbook was acquired by or donated to the University of Hawaii Library Hawaiian Collection. If captions or notes were available those have been used to "title" the photos. Descriptive titles…