The production of fire insurance plans of North American cities was dominated by two companies, the Sanborn Map Company of New York and the Charles E. Goad Company of London. The stories of other publishers, for the most part, have not been adequately told. The West, includ[ing] Hawaii, had a number of individuals and institutions which produced insurance plans. One of the more successful of them was the Dakin Publishing Company of San Francisco. Dakin was in existence from about 1885 until the…

In October 2004, heavy rain caused multimillion-dollar flood damage to the Manoa area, including Hamilton Library. Over the next 4 years about 10,000 maps were cleaned and restored; an additional 40,000 were sent for work at a mainland contractor. This collection features some of the restored maps treated by University of Hawaii at Manoa Preservation staff.More information about the preservation aspects of the map treatments may be found in the document Protocol for Conservation Treatment:…

This is a collection of over thirty aerial photographs of Hawaii in the 1920s and the 1930s taken by the U.S. Army Air Corps. They provide valuable insights into the pre-World War II landscape and scenes around the Hawaiian Islands. Maps, Aerials, and GIS (MAGIS) received the photographs from an anonymous donor in 2019.