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[Portraits of Hawaiian women and other views of Hawaii].
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Title:

[Portraits of Hawaiian women and other views of Hawaii]

Creator/Contributor:

Severin, Theodore P., creator, photographer.

Creator/Contributor:

Davey, Frank, photographer.

Creator/Contributor:

Davey Photo Co, photographer.

Abstract:

Includes a portrait of a young Hawaiian woman wearing leis and traditional attire ("Hawaiian girl"); a group portrait of Hawaiian women in leis and traditional attire ("Hawaiian girls"); a man posing in a boat on Waikiki beach with Honolulu and Diamond Head in distance ("Surf boat of the native, Honolulu, H. I."); a boy or young man climbing a coconut tree, with 2 children sitting below ("Gathering cocoanuts, Honolulu, H. I."); and a view from an unpaved road of the pali, probably on the eastern shore of Oahu (untitled).

Date:

1890 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-hi
Hawaiians -- Photographs
Hawaiian women -- Portraits
Hawaiian women
Hawaiians
Oahu (Hawaii) -- Photographs
Honolulu (Hawaii) -- Photographs
Waikiki Beach (Hawaii) -- Photographs
Oahu (Hawaii) -- Photographies
Honolulu (Hawaii) -- Photographies
Hawaii -- Honolulu
Hawaii -- Oahu
Hawaii -- Waikiki Beach

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers names written or printed in negative: 2 mounted portraits by Severin Phot.; 3 unmounted prints by Davey Phot Co.
Titles of images written or printed in negative.
Purchase ; from Pablo Butcher ; 2020.
Thoedore P. Severin and Frank Davey each operated photography studios in Honolulu in the 1880s and 1890s.
Portraits of Hawaiian women and other views of Hawaii, BANC PIC 2020.103, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
portraits.
Photographs.
Portraits.
Albumen prints.
Portraits.
Portraits.

Physical Description:

photoprint
5 photographs in 3 folders : albumen prints, some mounted ; prints 24 x 18 cm or smaller, mounts 36 x 26 cm

Language:

English

Origin:

California