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Repository: Bishop Museum Archives

Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Bishop Museum), whose extensive related holdings include photo albums, over a hundred photographs, moving images, documents, and, most significantly, logbooks within which the colonists detailed their observations and experiences. Wrote Kamehameha Schools alumni Abraham Pi‘ianaia, who was one of the first Hawaiian colonists: “All we could do was watch with longing eyes, paying tribute to the ship that had been our home for the past 5 days. We watched in silence for several moments, then we all looked at each other with a mixture of sadness and happiness in our eyes. Sad to see our only contact with the world, our homes and friends, getting father away, yet happy to be left by ourselves on this little atoll that we hope will be of great importance someday.” [Baker Island Logbook, June 18, 1936.]
Images of the cook house and dining hall on an island
Images of the cook house and dining hall on an island
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Images off shore looking at ship and a man standing in tide pool near shore
Images off shore looking at ship and a man standing in tide pool near shore
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Images on Jarvis Island June 1936 hoisting the American flag
Images on Jarvis Island June 1936 hoisting the American flag
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Images on board and off shore of unknown island
Images on board and off shore of unknown island
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Images on board the Itasca wardroom mess and men bringing supplies on shore
Images on board the Itasca wardroom mess and men bringing supplies on shore
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