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[Kaumakapili Church, Chinatown, Honolulu fire photographs].
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[Kaumakapili Church, Chinatown, Honolulu fire photographs]Abstract:
Photographs documenting the progress of a fire that destroyed much of Honolulu's Chinatown, January 20, 1900. Most views depict,
from a distant vantage point, Kaumakapili Church before it was burned, while it was on fire, and its later ruins. One image
includes a person identified in caption, "Dr. Nathaniel Emerson on horseback?"
Date:
1900 (issued)Subject:
n-us-hiFires -- Hawaii -- Honolulu -- Photographs
Plague -- Hawaii -- Honolulu
Incendies -- Hawaii -- Honolulu -- Photographies
Peste -- Hawaii -- Honolulu
Fires
Plague
Honolulu (Hawaii) -- Photographs
Chinatown (Honolulu, Hawaii) -- Photographs
Honolulu (Hawaii) -- Photographies
Hawaii -- Honolulu
Hawaii -- Honolulu -- Chinatown
Kaumakapili Church -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer unknown.
Backs of mounts bear hand-written captions describing general subject matter of images.
Purchase from Pacific Book Auction via John Windle ; 2021.
The fire that destroyed much of Honolulu's Chinatown in January of 1900 was started with the intent of burning a few buildings
thought to be infected by the bubonic plague that arrived in late 1899. Strong winds caused the fire to eventually spread
uncontrolled.
Kaumakapili Church, Chinatown, Honolulu fire photographs, BANC PIC 2022.059, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Physical Description:
photoprint
6 photographs in 1 folder : gelatin silver prints on card mounts ; prints 16 x 21 cm or smaller, mounts 26 x 31 cm
Language:
English