Description
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Series -
PP
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Box # -
38
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Folder # -
1
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Image # -
016
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Title -
Honolulu, City of - 1857
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Description -
Subject - Queen Street, Honolulu in 1857; Original Photo by - From a drawing by G. H. Burgess. When Copied - About 1938; Data - George H. Burgess, artist, was a brother of Edward Burgess, a Honolulu business man. Edward conducted eating places, restaurants, and later bars and saloons. Edward Burgess appears to have been associated with others in the operation of the Royal Hotel, Nuuanu at Merchant street, His last place of business was the Bank Exchange, located on Nuuanu street He died July 24, 1870. George Burgess the artist, and brother of Edward visited Honolulu a number of times. His name appears on the first of the Emmert series of drawing as the engraver. He made drawings, many of them charming, of Honolulu scenes. He was present at the laying of the corner stone of St. Andrew's Cathedral in 1867, made a sketch which was later published. This drawing of Honolulu in 1857 shows the mauka wall of the Old Fort, Queen street looking toward Diamond Head, the Court House, built in 1851, and more distant, Kawaiahao Church.; [from the front]: Diamond-head. From Look-out. Drawn from nature & on stone by G. H. Burgess. Entered by G. H. Burgess in year 1857 according to Art of Congress in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern Disctrict of the State of Cali. Printed by Britton & Rey.
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Photo Credit -
original - Burgess, George Henry (1831-1905); copy - Baker, Ray Jerome (1880-1972)
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Gift Of -
Baker, Ray Jerome (1880-1972)
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Negative Number -
HC 16,554
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Display Date -
1857
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Start Date -
01/01/1857
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End Date -
12/31/1857
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Contributed Metadata -
Description: Original sketch and lithograph by George H. Burgess and published by Britton & Rey of San Francisco.
The Fort on the right, the Court House, Kawaiahao Church in the distance and Diamond Head in background.
Keywords: Honolulu
Title: Queen St. , Honolulu, 1857.
Date: 1857
Photographer: Burgess, George Henry, 1831-1905, artist
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