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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.]
Image of 54 gallon drums filled with water being pulled onto the island for residents
Image of 54 gallon drums filled with water being pulled onto the island for residents
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Image of Albert F. Judd visiting Jarvis Island in 1935
Image of Albert F. Judd visiting Jarvis Island in 1935
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Image of Baker Island residents, Theodore Akana, Eugene Burke, Gabriel Victor, and Ah Kin Leong dated January 27, 1937
Image of Baker Island residents, Theodore Akana, Eugene Burke, Gabriel Victor, and Ah Kin Leong dated January 27, 1937
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Image of Collins, Summers, and Kalama repacking coconuts from Palmyra and Samoa to replant on Baker, Jarvis and Howland Islands
Image of Collins, Summers, and Kalama repacking coconuts from Palmyra and Samoa to replant on Baker, Jarvis and Howland Islands
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Image of Guano mounds on Jarvis Island
Image of Guano mounds on Jarvis Island
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