Hawai’i: Alice Roosevelt, Nicholas Longworth, and others at Lugan Mill. 1905

Hawai’i: Alice Roosevelt, Nicholas Longworth, and others at Lugan Mill. 1905

Hawai’i
industry
America
politics

This photo shows Alice Roosevelt, the eldest child of the US President Theodore Roosevelt, in Hawai’i in 1905. The image is significant for two reasons. Firstly, it is possible that the visit was an official one as it comes during her father’s Presidency, and this may have been used as a way of consolidating American influence by sending the First Daughter to their new territory. Secondly, this photo shows Alice Roosevelt leaving Lugan Mill which was a Sugar Mill. This is important because it shows the development and diversification of the Hawaiian economy and industry, which was moving away from their traditional work. This suggests that there was a strong American influence on Hawai’i.

Burr McIntosh

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, The Smithsonian Institution

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1905

Georgia Day

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20th century Hawai'i