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From RN Collins, selected work

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Start hereThe story on Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi hawaii-tech-week-project-record.vercel.app

Research cited

  1. libweb.hawaii.edu libweb.hawaii.edu

Other sources

  1. About the collection (guides.loc.gov) guides.loc.gov
  2. loc.gov/item/sn85047056 loc.gov
  3. papakilodatabase.com/pdnupepa papakilodatabase.com
  4. Nupepa engaged readers global affairs changing society (kawaiola.news) kawaiola.news

Images, slide by slide

Slide 1
The masthead and top of the front page of Hawaiʻi Holomua, Honolulu, May 2, 1891: the title in blackletter capitals either side of an engraved emblem of a coast with ships, a ribbon bearing the motto 'Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono', the date line and the first columns of Hawaiian-language typeSource: Hawaii Holomua, 1891Photo record
Slide 2
Illustrative photo: tall stacks of folded, printed copies of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin piled on the floor and on a bench in a plant, with a Society section lying on top and a small American flag on the wallSource: Hawaiʻi State ArchivesPhoto record
Slide 3
The masthead of Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, May 13, 1893: the title in ornate decorative lettering over a ribbon of Hawaiian text, with a subtitle line beneath, scanned at high resolutionMasthead: Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, 1893Photo record
Slide 4
Page one of Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, Honolulu, June 1, 1878 (Buke I, Helu 22), shown whole as a printed object: the title across the top, display advertisements down the left column, an installment of a serialized story (Mokuna VII of 'He Moolelo no na Kiai Ekolu') and a report on the legislature's 1878 session in the columnsPhoto: Chimchimere, CC BY-SA 4.0Photo record
Slide 5
The front page of Ka Lama Hawaii, Lahainaluna, Maui, December 5, 1834 (Makahiki I, Helu 22): the blackletter title, the Hawaiian motto line, a woodcut of a hyena and a column of Hawaiian text set in metal type, scanned from the aged paperSource: Ulukau, via Hawaiʻi Public RadioPhoto record
Slide 6
A crowd of newsboys in front of the Ke Aloha Aina Printing Office, 1906Photo: Ke Aloha Aina, 1906Photo record
Slide 7a
The front page of Ka Lama Hawaii, Lahainaluna, Maui, May 16, 1834, Helu 14, with a masthead, a Hawaiian motto line and an illustration of a lionPage: Ka Lama Hawaii, 1834Photo record
Slide 7b
Illustrative photo: a photograph of a bound volume of Ka Lama Hawaiʻi opened to the front page of Helu 7, printed at Lahainaluna on March 28, 1834, showing the masthead, motto, volume and issue line, and a printed engraving of a horse headed He LioSource: Hawaiʻi State ArchivesPhoto record
Slide 7c
A studio portrait photograph by H. L. Chase, about 1865, of the RevPhoto: H. L. Chase, Mission HousesPhoto record (Mission Houses Museum Archives item https://hmha.missionhouses.org/items/show/11291)
Slide 7d
Illustrative photo: the northeast front of Hale Paʻi, the printing house on the grounds of Lahainaluna Seminary on Maui, a low whitewashed stone building with a shingle roof, a door and two windows, under a large tree, photographed for the Historic American Buildings SurveyPhoto: HABS, Library of CongressPhoto record (LOC https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hi0010.photos.058642p)
Slide 7e
Illustrative photo: a bronze-colored plaque set into a lava-rock wall at Puʻukohola Heiau National Historic Site on Hawaiʻi Island, carrying a quotation attributed to Kamehameha I dated May 8, 1819, in Hawaiian with its English translation beneathPhoto: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0Photo record
Slide 8
Illustrative photo: a close view of a microfilm and microfiche conversion scanner, a nextScan FlexScan, with a roll of film threaded between the supply reel and a take-up reel and a macro camera lens above the film pathPhoto: Arid024, CC BY-SA 4.0Photo record
Slide 9
Illustrative photo: the scanning station of the He Aupuni Palapala project at Bishop Museum Library & Archives, a bound newspaper volume open on a padded cradle under an overhead camera on a tall stand, with studio lights and a computer showing the captured pageSource: Bishop Museum ArchivesPhoto record (image https://kaiwakiloumoku.ksbe.edu/images/articles/2021-bpm-new-machine.jpg, 1000 x 750; the earlier 800 x 600 file was a smaller copy of this same photograph)
Slide 10a
Illustrative photo: the 1889 Bernice P. Bishop Museum building in Kalihi, Honolulu, a dark lava-stone hall with turrets and tall windows behind pandanus trees, photographed in 2016Photo: Mark MillerPhoto record
Slide 10b
Illustrative photo: the front of the old Hawaiʻi State Archives (the Kanaina Building) in Honolulu, a white single-story classical building with the word ARCHIVES over its doorway and a walkway leading to wooden doorsPhoto: Steven Pavlov, CC BY-SA 4.0Photo record

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