Description
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Series -
PP
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Box # -
38
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Folder # -
3
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Image # -
019
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Title -
Honolulu, City of
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Description -
Subject - View of Fort Street from the Lookout on the Brewer Building. About 1872; Original Photo By - Probably H. L Chase; When Copied - 1952, the copy was made from a half-tone picture; Data - At the left, the recently built store of C. E. Williams. The Hawaiian Gazette, June 21, 1871 says: "The property now belongs to C. E. Williams who intends to put up a two story fire-proof building on it, which will extend ten feet on the lot makai. The lower store is intended as a store, and the upper will be used as furniture warerooms. The new building will be an ornament to Fort street as well as one of the finest business places in the city." Hawaiian Gazette, February 14, 1872: "The new fire-proof building on Fort street was opened to the public for business purposes last Saturday. The first floor is divided into two stores, the mauka one being occupied by the prop. Mr. C. E. Williams as a furniture wareroom, and the other one by Hazelden Bros., Dry Goods. Williams occupies the remainder of the building with his furniture business." - - The building was later occupied by the Hollister Drug Co., and the site still later became a part of the James Campbell building. The Cosmopolitan Photographic Gallery was the shop and entrance to the Henry L. Chase studio. Chase kept curios and sold his photographic views in his shop. The large skylight projecting above the roof of the frame building on the corner was his camera room. Chase occupied this building from November 1870 until a disastrous fire destroyed his gallery in 1877. On the corner of Fort and Hotel streets in the Pantheon saloon and livery stable. In the distance at the corner of Fort and Beretania streets is the steeple of the Fort Street Church. In the immediate foreground is the photo gallery of M. Dickson. This had been the location of Chase for several years, and was occupied by Dickson after Chase vacated it for the location across the street in November, 1877. The Dickson gallery was later sold to J. J. Williams, who occupied the same building for many years, and the same location has been occupied, with many building changes, by the Williams studio up to the present time (1952).
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Photo Credit -
original - Chase, Henry L. (1831-1901)?; copy - Baker, Ray Jerome (1880-1972)
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Gift Of -
Baker, Ray Jerome (1880-1972)
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Received Date -
1952
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Negative Number -
HC 22,821
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Negative Size -
4x5
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Display Date -
circa 1872
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Start Date -
01/01/1871
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End Date -
12/31/1873
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Contributed Metadata -
Description: On left is the C.W. Williams store and the Cosmopolitan Photographic Gallery of Henry L. Chase. In immediate foreground is the photo studio of Menzies Dickson.
Copied by photographer Ray Jerome Baker from a half-tone print in 1952.
Keywords: Honolulu
Title: Fort St. from the lookout on the Brewer Bldg., Honolulu.
Date: ca. 1872
Photographer: Chase, H.L. , 1831-1901.
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