Aloha
Hawaii Scrapbook A
collection of black and white photographs of scenic sites and
identifiable landmarks in Hawaii, programs, tickets, etc. Scrapbook was
compiled by Norma Stewart circa. 1935. It was acquired by or donated to
the University of Hawaii Library Hawaiian Collection.
The
Annexation Of Hawai'i: A Collection Of Documents
Digitized reports and debates from the late 19th and early 20th
centuries related to the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom and the
annexation of Hawai'i. Including the Blount Report and the
Anti-annexation Petitions.
Asia
At Work - Images from Books Within
the vast body of literature on Asia held by the Asia Collection at the
University of Hawaii are fascinating illustrations of the people of
Asia and the environment in which they live. These images are a visual
record of the lives of the people and their surroundings.
Bob
Krauss Research Index In
2006 the Hawaiian Collection received the private research index
created by the late Bob Krauss, longtime columnist for the Honolulu
Advertiser and commentator on cultural, social, historical, and
political developments in Hawaii. The index is by no means
comprehensive in subject or time coverage. It largely reflects Krauss's
research interests. Nonetheless it provides critical starting points
into Hawaii's newspaper literature, covering periods of time and
subjects in newspaper titles that have been formally indexed nowhere
else. Transcription of the index is underway as of spring 2007.
Chaplain
Hiro Higuchi Correspondence During
World War II, Hiro Higuchi of Hawaii volunteered to serve as one of two
chaplains attached to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, an all-Japanese
American unit formed in January 1943. While serving with the 442nd RCT,
Chaplain Higuchi wrote frequent letters to his wife Hisako reassuring
her of his safety and documenting his experiences and impressions of
the war. His descriptive letters provide insight into the mindset and
experiences of the soldiers of the 442nd RCT and the nature of military
life in World War II.
Creating Siapo: American Samoa 1967 A collection of eighteen 35mm slides, shot by Joan Griffis in 1967. The slides were donated by Ms. Griffis to the University of Hawaii-Manoa Library's Pacific Collection in 2009. The eighteen slides in this online collection depict the process of making siapo, as bark-cloth is known in Samoa. The slides were donated by Ms. Griffis to the Pacific Collection in 2009, in conjunction with another major gift to the University of Hawaii Library: A full-size siapo piece made by Mary Pritchard, one of world’s preeminent makers of traditional bark-cloth, and the person most often credited for reviving the nearly lost art in Samoa.
Dakin
Fire Insurance Maps: Honolulu (1891, 1899,
1906) Fire
insurance maps of Honolulu,
Hawaiian Islands surveyed for the Board of Fire Underwriters of
Honolulu. M.D. Monsarrat and Alfred Richard Gurrey, survey inspectors.
Donald
Angus Botanical Prints Donald
Angus' collection of botanical prints are housed at the Bishop Museum,
Foster Gardens, the National Tropical Botanical Garden, and the
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hamilton Library. These exquisite
illustrations were published in monographs and journals mainly in the
18th and 19th centuries. They reflect the enthusiasm of scientists, and
the popularity of the exotic flora being introduced and cultivated in
European botanical gardens.
eVols at University of Hawaii Library This repository is a central place which stores and maintains information in digital format for material which the library digitizes as part of grant projects and digital library program initiatives.
Fifty
Years as a Center of Our Lives: College/University of Hawaii, 1907-1957
An exhibit documenting the early years of the Manoa campus and focusing
upon the role the University played in the lives of students, faculty
and staff. Created as part of the Archives contribution to and
celebration of the upcoming Centennial of the University.
Filipino
Workers in Hawaii, 1926 "Photographs
in Connection with the Investigation of Working Conditions of Filipino
Laborers on Hawaiian Sugar Plantations, 1926," by Lt. Colonel Robert A.
Duckworth-Ford; collection is from Alex Ford of California; titles
taken from typed captions on each photograph.
Hawaii
Congressional Papers: Senator Hiram Fong Exhibit An
exhibit honoring Sen. Hiram L. Fong as 2002 recipient of the UH
Founders' Lifetime Achievement Award was featured in the bridge gallery
of Hamilton Library. The display showcased some of the fascinating
memorabilia from Sen. Fong's campaign trail; his important legislative
issues; and school days at the University of Hawaii.
Hawaii
War Records Depository (HWRD) is
an extensive collection of archival materials that document life in
Hawaii during World War II. The Territorial Legislature of 1943
authorized the University of Hawaii Library to collect materials to
document the impact of the war upon Hawai'i and its populace. The
collection includes approximately 1,325 photographs.
Hawai'i
War Records - U.S. Army Signal Corps Photographs includes
880 photographs taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps and the U.S. Navy
between 1941 and 1946. They depict Army and Navy activities in Hawaii
and illustrate the military's relationship with Hawaii's civilian
population.
Hawaiian
Language Newspapers Images
of Hawaiian language newspapers published from 1834 to 1948. Includes
stories, chants, photographs, advertisements, political notices,
letters to the editor. Documents a unique period in history and
presents the Hawaiian view of events, genealogy and culture.
Hawaiian
Photo Album The
Hawaiian collection contains a number of photograph albums and
miscellaneous collections of photos. Most are incompletely identified
however the images are of historical and research interest. Scanning of
the images is underway as of spring 2007.
Japanese
American Veterans Collection - National Archives Documents Relating to
the 442nd RCT The
442nd Veterans Club in Honolulu sponsors an ongoing project in which
volunteers copy documents located in the National Archives that relate
to the activities of the 442nd Regimental Combat team during World War
II.
Jean
Charlot Murals and Sculpture The
Jean Charlot Collection is an archive of art works relating to the
artist and writer Jean Charlot and to those with whom he came in
contact in France, Mexico, the United States and the Pacific. A
selection of scanned slide images held in the Jean Charlot collection
have been digitized. Murals featured are frescoes unless otherwise
indicated.
Jos
Guadalupe Posada In
1921 the young French artist Jean Charlot, then working as a muralist
in Mexico City, encountered the broadsides of Jos Guadalupe
Posada. Charlot's enthusiasm for Posada resulted in the assembly of an
extensive personal collection of Posada's art. This collection includes
digital images from slides of cover illustrations produced by Posada to
illustrate a series of pamphlets for children on the history of Mexico.
Lian
Huan Hua Chinese Picture Story Books
Lian Huan Hua literarily means "linked serial pictures." They are
pocket sized picture-story books first published by a Shanghai
publisher in the 1920s. Lian huan hua is also commonly known as Xiao
ren shu, children's book for their simplicity and heraldic subjects. In
the early 1920s, lian huan hua first appeared mainly as adaptations of
Jingju (Peking Opera) and Chinese literary classics. The pictures were
created mostly in line drawings, sketches, and oil-wash painting. After
the People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded in 1949, lain huan hua
became an extremely popular art form and was used to popularize new
government policies and regulations. From 1951 to 1956, more than
10,000 titles, and approximately 26 billion copies were published in
China.
Local
Sightings/Citings
Online project created at The Center for Teaching Excellence, funded by
an Educational Improvement Fund (EIF) grant from the Office of the
President of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The project focuses on
a specific period of time in the history of Hawai'i - the early
Territorial period, from 1898 - 1933. We located primary sources,
textual and graphic, which can be integrated into a teaching manual.
The goal is to raise questions and engender in the users/viewers of the
materials a desire to take seriously the challenge to recover and
rediscover the history of this place.
Magic
Lantern
Slides Collection from Japan   Produced in
the late 1800's and early 1900's; some were exhibited in the
Treasures
from
the Library show in 2005. The slides were donated by the
grandchildren
of Reverend Takie Okumura, a local spiritual leader and founder of
Makiki Christian Church, established 1904, as well as the Okumura Boys
and Girls Home (originally called Okumura's Christian Home) established
in 1901.
Maps:
flood-damaged items restored by Preservation A
sample of items damaged in the 2004 flood, restored by the University
of Hawaii at Manoa Preservation Department.
Margo
Duggan Collection: Slides of Micronesia and Hawaii, 1949-1954 Margo
Duggan served in the United States Marine Corps in World War II, from
1943 through 1945. In late 1949 she began work as a civilian employee
of the United States Trust Territories Administration. Between 1949 and
1954, she worked on or visited a number of locations in the Marshall,
Mariana, and Caroline Islands, as well as in Hawaii. Her
photographs document an important moment in the history of Micronesia,
as the various island nations emerged from the life and death struggles
of World War II and began the process of redefining their political
status.
Oliver
Statler Collection
is the accumulated materials that were the basis for the scholarly
writings of Oliver Statler, most notably,
Japanese Inn,
Japanese Pilgrimage, and Shimoda Story. The collection
includes correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, source materials,
brochures, clippings, postcards, maps, art prints, photographs, slides,
films, audiotapes and more.
Opium
in Asia - Images from Books Within
the vast body of literature on Asia held by the Asia Collection at the
University of Hawaii are fascinating images related to opium usage in
Asia. These images are a visual record of the impact opium has had on
Asian peoples during certain historical times.
Rapanui:
the Edmunds/Bryan Photograph Collection, 1904-1929 Henry
P. Edmunds and William A. Bryan were both photographers who shared the
experience of Rapanui, or Easter Island, during the early 1900s. Both
of them took remarkable photographs documenting Rapanui's
archaeological wonders and everyday life, and some of these fascinating
images are presented here.
Russian
Passport Album The
album contains the passport applications for 165 people who wished to
leave Hawaii and return to Russia. Every person was required to submit
a photograph, and details on where and when they were born, what work
they did, year and name of ship on which they came to Hawaii,etc. The
images of the album pages are accompanied by an image of the text
transcribed in Russian and an abbreviated English translation.
Save
Our Surf (SOS)
a collection of unpublished material from the SOS organization begun by
John Kelly, including posters, flyers, articles, petitions, etc. SOS
was an environmental, social, political, and cultural association that
contributed to the contemporary Hawaiian Sovereignty movement.
ScholarSpace
is UH Manoa's Digital Repository. Our mission is to store the
intellectual works and unique collections of this academic community
and to provide a permanent web location for those accessing these
resources.
Shackford
Collection of photographs of China
These photographs were taken
during the late 1920s and early 1930s by William Shackford during his
travels and tenure as an English teacher in southern China.
Social
Movements Collection Pamphlets,
brochures, and periodicals about the labor movement in the United
States as well as global radical political movements, including
anarchism, communism, and fascism. Acquired from Eugene Bechtold, a
bookseller and former instructor at the Chicago Worker’s
School; the collection also includes items from the collection of John
Reineke.
South
East Asia Posters This
website was created in late 2006 and is dedicated to digitizing posters
from countries in the South East Asia region.
Steve
Thomas Traditional Micronesian Navigation Collection is
comprised of unpublished papers, audiovisual and photographic materials
(including oral history transcripts and 35mm slides), publications and
miscellaneous items related primarily to traditional navigation on the
island of Satawal Island, Yap. 1866 color slides have been digitized.
TRAIL-Technical
Report Archive and Image Library is
a collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent
and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to
1975. Organizations involved in this pilot site are libraries in the
Greater Western Library Alliance (
GWLA
- http://www.gwla.org) and the Center for Research Libraries (
CRL -
http://www.crl.edu).
Treasures
of Okinawa: Frank Hawley Collection Regarded
as one of the rarest and the largest known collection of Ryukyu/Okinawa
ancient manuscripts, maps, scrolls, and prints. To celebrate the first
Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival in Hawai'i, this digital exhibit of
selected materials from the Hawley Collection was created.
Trust
Territory Photo Archives The
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands included the Micronesian
archipelagoes of the Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas during the U.S.
administrative period from 1947 to 1994. The archive contains over
52,000 photographs and visually document nearly 50 years of the U.S.
administration’s programs in education, health, political and
economic development.
University
of Hawaii Masao Miyamoto Photographs Miyamoto
began his career as official University photographer in April 1936. In
the course of the next forty-one years, he photographed and collected
approximately 70,000 negatives of a wide variety of events and people
associated with the University of Hawaii. The collection was placed in
the Library Archives in 1991. Only a small sample of images have been
digitized.
Videos Online Since March 2009, Sinclair Library has been digitizing many of its older videos, focusing on those in the Hawaiian/Pacific and Asia collections. Digitized videos are now available online via links in the Voyager catalog. A UH username and password are necessary for accessing the videos. To search for all the streaming videos currently available, type
Sinclair streaming into the Basic Search box. Refine your search by adding more specific terms if you are looking for videos on a certain subject.
XXth
Century, Shanghai, 1941-1945 Published
monthly beginning in October 1941 until its final issue in June 1945.
PDF images of the articles are being linked to the index prepared by
Eric Bott for University of Hawaii Professor John J.
Stephan’s seminar on Klaus Mehnert (editor-in-chief of the
journal).