256 results for "postcards"

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Boats - Outrigger Canoes

• Series: PP • Box #: 4 • Folder #: 9 • Image #: 005 • Title: Boats - Outrigger Canoes • Description: Native Outrigger Canoe, Hawaii. The Hawaiian canoes are patterned after the Outrigger canoes of the Southern Pacific Islands and are hallowed out of a single tree with a strip of wood passing along the upper edges on each side which closes entirely over the top at both stem and stern. The Outrigger consists of a slender log of light wood passing parallel through the canoe, its purpose being to steady the boat. Many of these canoes are used for surf riding at Waikiki Beach. [postcard] • Photo Credit: Mid-Pacific Curio • Display Date: undated • Contributed Metadata: Description: Canoes protected by coconut fronds. Colorized post card Title: Two children and dog with canoes on beach.
  • Level: Record
  • ID: ark:70111/1D3R
  • Reference: PP-4-9-005
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Hawaiians: Lei Sellers

• Series: PPWD • Box #: 7 • Folder #: 2 • Image #: 003 • Title: Hawaiians: Lei Sellers • Description: [postcard]; Flower Girls, Honolulu; The famous flower girls of Hawaii can be seen on all the street corners in the markets at Hawaii and other places on the Island where they vend their perfumed pua or roses, each one being decorated with a beautiful wreath or lei around her neck. Hawaii is famed for its profusion of beautiful flowers and it is the native custom to cover travelers when they arrive or depart with the beautiful flower leis.; This is a small port of #2470-A (8x10 glass); 2470-B and -C are nearly the same as -A • Photo Credit: Honolulu Paper Company • From Collection: Virgil Biggs Collection • Negative Number: 2,470-A • Negative Size: 8x10 • Contributed Metadata: Title: Hawaiians: Lei Sellers
  • Level: Record
  • ID: ark:70111/1xpD
  • Reference: PPWD-7-2-003
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Hawaiians - Hula Dancers

• Series: PP • Box #: 32 • Folder #: 9a • Image #: 002 • Title: Hawaiians - Hula Dancers • Description: [postcard]; The Royal Hula-hula dancing girls were a feature of olden days in Hawaiʻi. The Hula-hula is acting out by gestures and movements the ideas expressed by the song which accompany them. The time is marked by striking on gourds of hokeo and in some instances these dancers are in honor of the Gods or chief as the alaapa-apa. The professional hula dancers are devotees of the Goddess Laka. The dancers are generally women, though children are sometimes engaged in the less objectionable dances and men act as buffoons between the acts; Published by Hawaiʻi and South Seas Curio Company, Honolulu; [from the front]: Royal Hula-Hula Dancers, Hawaiʻi • Photo Credit: Hawaii & South Seas Curio Company • Negative Number: 2,283-A; 18,553 • Negative Size: 8x10; 4x5 • Display Date: undated
  • Level: Record
  • ID: ark:70111/1DhT
  • Reference: PP-32-9a-002
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Hawaiians - Lei Sellers

• Series: PP • Box #: 33 • Folder #: 8 • Image #: 006 • Title: Hawaiians - Lei Sellers • Description: [postcard]; Flower girls, Honoulu; The famous flower girls of Hawaii can be seen on all street corners and in the markets at Hawaii and other places on the Island where they vend their perfumed pua or roses, each one being decorated with a beautiful wreath or lei around her neck. Hawaii is famed for its profusion of beautiful flowers and it is the native custom to cover travelers when they arrive or depart with the beautiful flower leis; This is a small portion of #2470-A; 8x10 glass; [from the front]: Flower girls, Honolulu • Photo Credit: Mid-Pacific Curio Store • Display Date: undated • End Date: 12/31/1930 • Contributed Metadata: Description: Color post card Keywords: Lei sellers Title: Lei sellers at the waterfront, Honolulu Harbor.
  • Level: Record
  • ID: ark:70111/1Dnc
  • Reference: PP-33-8-006
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Monument - Douglas, David

• Series: PPWD • Box #: 11 • Folder #: 4 • Image #: 018 • Title: Monument - Douglas, David • Description: [from the front]: See Paradise of the Pacific, Dec. 1934, Pg. 28 - article and names given; Dr. (sic) David Douglas, Botanist. Monument erected at North Hilo, Hawaii on July 12, 1934, in commemoration of his death by misadventure near this spot 100 years ago. 5.8" x 3.7" direct photo 1/2-tone cut from the Star-Bulletin of July 20, 1934 and 2-direct photo-postcards; [from caption]: In Memory of Great Naturalist: This photo was taken at the dedication of a monument in memory of Dr. David Douglas on the slope of Mauna Kea last week. Fir trees, which bear the name of Dr. Douglas, were also planted on the Big Island where Dr. Douglas lost his life a century ago. (by the Hilo Burns Club); Honolulu Star Bulletin, July 20, 1934 • From Collection: Cooke Collection • Negative Number: 23,767 • Negative Size: 4x5 • Display Date: 1934 July 12 • Start Date: 07/12/1934 • End Date: 07/12/1934
  • Level: Record
  • ID: ark:70111/1BDt
  • Reference: PPWD-11-4-018
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Letter, 1896-01-18, Carl Von Scheidt to His Royal Highness King Kalakaua

• Box: 7 • Folder: 72 • Number: 006 • Citation: 7-72-006 • Level: item • Title: Letter, 1896-01-18, Carl Von Scheidt to His Royal Highness King Kalakaua • Display Date: YEAR: 1896 • Display Date: MONTH: January • Display Date: DAY: 18 • Date Begin: 1896-01-18 • Date End: 1896-01-18 • Language: English • Scope and Content: Letter, 1896-01-18, Carl Von Scheidt to His Royal Highness King Kalakaua, Carl Von Scheidt writes to Kalākaua in regards to requesting postcards; Letter was composed in Germany on 1896-01-18.
  • Level: Record
  • ID: ark:70111/1G0v
  • Reference: M93.02-7-72-006