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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 taken on Baker Island posing in front of a flag pole, men aboard ship and men transporting cannon found on Baker Island to the ship for eventual presentation to the Bishop Museum
Images taken on Baker Island posing in front of a flag pole, men aboard ship and men transporting cannon found on Baker Island to the ship for eventual presentation to the Bishop Museum
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Kamakaiwi Air Field on Howland Island
Kamakaiwi Air Field on Howland Island
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Map titled "Jarvis Island: From Surveys By The United States Coast Guard 1936-1937”.
Map titled "Jarvis Island: From Surveys By The United States Coast Guard 1936-1937”.
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Men bringing supplies ashore unknown island
Men bringing supplies ashore unknown island
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Men on Howland Island in front of the flag pole and "Government House"
Men on Howland Island in front of the flag pole and "Government House"
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