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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 coconuts from Palmyra in 1935, American Samoa in 1936, and Fanning in 1937 were successfully transplanted on Baker, Jarvis and Howland Islands
Image of coconuts from Palmyra in 1935, American Samoa in 1936, and Fanning in 1937 were successfully transplanted on Baker, Jarvis and Howland Islands
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Image of four colonists on Jarvis Island. Original caption reads "Hawaiian Colonists - American Citizens, Kamehameha School Graduates, Jarvis Group 1937"
Image of four colonists on Jarvis Island. Original caption reads "Hawaiian Colonists - American Citizens, Kamehameha School Graduates, Jarvis Group 1937"
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Image of landscape of Jarvis Island
Image of landscape of Jarvis Island
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Image of men aboard ship checking machinery to be used on the islands
Image of men aboard ship checking machinery to be used on the islands
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Image of men bringing supplies ashore
Image of men bringing supplies ashore
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