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Queen’s Hospital, Honolulu
This is an image of the Queen’s Hospital in Honolulu taken by Frank Davey; a photographer who took many photos of Hawaii during his lifetime. This photo shows a hospital in the midst of the scenic Hawaii, it shows some people sitting on the porch of…
Los Angeles, December 17 1905, page 8, Image 32
This source is a newspaper article entitled ‘Grider and Hamilton’s Hollywood’ advertising the new housing development in Hollywood opening Monday the 25th of December. The source provides the prices of these houses being from $400-$800 and encourages…
Threes and Eights
This is an image of a manuscript found among Queen Emma’s private papers titled ‘A Short Elementary Grammar of the Owhhie Language’ along with a note on the manuscript saying ‘Believed to be Obookiah’s grammar.’ This is the first example of a grammar…
The Planter’s Monthly, Published for the Planters’ Labor and Supply Company of the Hawaiian Islands, No. 8, Vol. 5
Hawaii was seen as ideal land for agriculture during both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Hawaiians had already been farming there throughout their history to great success. The establishment of agricultural businesses by Europeans and…
Photograph of telegraph line construction
A photograph (dimensions unknown) captioned ‘an uphill pull’, by federal government employee Lance Burdon, of two workhorses pulling a large load uphill over felled trees, followed by two men supervising. The construction of the telegraph line…
Chinamen washing for Gold near Northbend
The dry plate image, which is creased and is fading, still tells us enough about the Chinese immigrants who were transported on the trains, working to find gold through traditional means of washing for gold. Due to the efforts of the Canadian…
Crowds at C.P.R. wharf viewing the arrival of the first train in Vancouver
The B&W glass negative photo depicts the arrival of the first train, Engine NO.374, to arrive in Vancouver in 1887. The use of dry plate gelatin matches the similar photos taken during the same period and furthermore the crease on the edge of the…
Hotel Hollywood
This source is a postcard of The Hollywood Hotel in California in colour with the caption ‘Hotel Hollywood at Hollywood, ca’. The postcard shows the front of the hotel and the road alongside it. The Hotel was opened in 1902 by one of Hollywood’s…
Roller Derby Skate Board
Painted red wooden plank with modified roller blade wheels bolted to the underside of the plank. Roughly 15 inches long and 5 inches wide with a flat tail and rounded nose. The words ‘Roller Derby’ are in a handwritten italic sporty white font…
Newspaper advert for Vancouver Island
An advertisement in the Daily Colonist newspaper for Vancouver Island in 1941, with illustrations of a cargo train hauling lumber along with cargo steamships. The advertisement was published in the leading newspaper for British Columbia, with a vast…