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Hawaiʻi Once Ran on a Half-Hour the Continent Forgot

Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi

From RN Collins, selected work

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Research cited

  1. evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/239 evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu
  2. STATUTE 107 Pg1510 (govinfo.gov) govinfo.gov
  3. evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu
  4. STATUTE 31 Pg141 (govinfo.gov) govinfo.gov

Other sources

  1. HRS 0001 0031 (data.capitol.hawaii.gov) data.capitol.hawaii.gov
  2. Local time faqs (nist.gov) nist.gov
  3. Time act (transportation.gov) transportation.gov
  4. data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/northamerica data.iana.org

Images, slide by slide

Slide 1
The clock on the tower of Aliʻiōlani Hale, Honolulu, in a 1966 survey photograph, with the Hawaiian motto lettered above the dialPhoto: Jack E. Boucher, HABS/NPSPhoto record
Slide 2
Illustrative photo: the USS California docking at Honolulu Harbor beside Aloha Tower on May 15, 1928, with the tower's clock faces at the leftPhoto: National Park ServicePhoto record (NPGallery asset 67d42b6b-1dd8-b71b-0bcd-ead33ae83b48)
Slide 3
The top of the front page of the Hawaiian Gazette, Honolulu, semi-weekly, Friday January 10, 1896: the issue that printed the Department of the Interior's standard-time notice on page 5Source: Hawaiian Gazette, Jan 10, 1896Photo record (page image n0)
Slide 4a
United States Marines and sailors from the USS Boston landing at Honolulu on January 17, 1893, drawn up in ranks on a wharf, in a Hawaiʻi State Archives printSource: Hawaiʻi State ArchivesPhoto record (image https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/resources/images/ark_70111_1zTn.0.jpeg)
Slide 4b
President Clinton signing Public Law 103-150, the joint resolution of November 23, 1993, at his desk in the Oval Office, with several people standing behind himPhoto: White House, NARAPhoto record
Slide 5
The Republic of Hawaiʻi cabinet seated around a table, in a Frank Davey photograph from the Hawaiʻi State ArchivesPhoto: Frank Davey (HSA)Photo record (image https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/resources/images/ark_70111_1xfv.0.jpeg)
Slide 6
The Hawaiian flag being lowered at the annexation ceremony at ʻIolani Palace on August 12, 1898, photographed by Frank Davey, in the Hawaiʻi State Archives 8 by 10 printPhoto: Frank Davey (HSA)Photo record (image https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/resources/images/ark_70111_1CLZ.0.jpeg)
Slide 7
Illustrative photo: the clock panel at a Mutual Telephone Company operator position in Honolulu, 1934, with separate clocks labeled Far Eastern, Pacific, Mountain, Honolulu, Central, Eastern and GreenwichSource: Hawaiʻi State ArchivesPhoto record (image https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/resources/images/ark_70111_1Bmx.0.jpeg)
Slide 8
Illustrative photo: the transit telescope room at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, between 1909 and 1919, with the instrument that observed the clock stars to fix the timeSource: Library of CongressPhoto record (Library of Congress LCCN 2016821018)
Slide 9
Illustrative photo: a hand setting back the hands of a large clock at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, 1918, in a Library of Congress photograph captioned as turning back the clock, cropped to the dialPhoto: Harris & Ewing, LOCPhoto record (Library of Congress LCCN 2016869006)
Slide 10
Illustrative photo: a war-bond display in a downtown Honolulu shop window at Hotel and Fort Streets in 1942, watched by uniformed police, with a street clock reflected in the window glassPhoto: U.S. Army Signal CorpsPhoto record
Slide 11
The Senate of the Twenty-Fourth Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, a group portrait taken in 1947 and held by the Hawaiʻi State Archives, cropped to the photograph and brightened from a dark negative scanSource: Hawaiʻi State ArchivesPhoto record (image https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/resources/images/ark_70111_51zq.0.jpeg)
Slide 12
Illustrative photo: the clock face and ALOHA lettering at the top of Aloha Tower, Honolulu, photographed in 2015Photo: Gerald WatanabePhoto record
Slide 13a
Illustrative photo: the clock stage of the Aliʻiōlani Hale tower, Honolulu, with two black clock faces, in a Historic American Buildings Survey photographPhoto: HABS/NPSPhoto record (LOC https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hi0040.photos.058030p, page not read: bot-blocked)
Slide 13b
Illustrative photo: the blue-faced clock with Roman numerals on the gray stone tower of Kawaiahaʻo Church, Honolulu, against a clear sky, photographed in 2022 by w_lemayPhoto: w_lemay (Flickr)Photo record (Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/59081381@N03/52238443573/)
Slide 14
Illustrative photo: three wall clocks labeled London, Berlin and Jersey at the Jersey War Tunnels museum, 2009Photo: fw190a8Photo record (Flickr 3481260516)
Slide 15a
Illustrative photo: Aliʻiōlani Hale with its clock tower, seen from ʻIolani Palace around 1888Source: Hawaii State ArchivesPhoto record
Slide 15b
Illustrative photo: the exposed timing mechanism of an antique clock, brass wheels, a lever arm and a round pendulum bob mounted on a wooden board inside a circular frame, in a 1949 photograph by Raymond Sato held by the Hawaiʻi State Archives, which labels it Queen Liliʻuokalani's clockSource: Hawaiʻi State ArchivesPhoto record (image https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/resources/images/ark_70111_1zWS.0.jpeg, cropped to the print)
Slide 16a
Kawaiahaʻo Church, Honolulu, with the round dial of its tower clock clear on the tower and a group of men at the churchyard gate, from a Hawaiʻi State Archives glass plate negative, cropped and contrast-adjustedSource: Hawaiʻi State ArchivesPhoto record (image https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/resources/images/ark_70111_48g0.0.jpeg)
Slide 16b
Illustrative photo: Fort and Merchant Streets, Honolulu, around 1897, looking toward the harbor, a dirt-and-rail street between stone commercial blocks with a round street clock hanging over the sidewalk at left, from the Hawaiʻi State ArchivesSource: Hawaiʻi State ArchivesPhoto record (image https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/resources/images/ark_70111_1Ds0.0.jpeg, cropped to the print)
Slide 16c
Illustrative photo: a plantation worker time clock standing in a small open wooden shed at Pioneer Mill, Lahaina, Maui, a round clock dial above a large wheel ringed with numbered pegs and a long lever, photographed by Jack E. Boucher for the National Park Service in July 1966 (Hawaiʻi State Archives)Photo: Jack E. Boucher, USNPSPhoto record (image https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/resources/images/ark_70111_4TM4.0.jpeg, cropped to the frame and reduced to 6000 px)
Slide 16d
Illustrative photo: the stone clock tower of Aliʻiōlani Hale, Honolulu, seen looking steeply upward from the side, a round clock dial under a flag, with palm fronds at left, photographed in 2006 by MordomoPhoto: Mordomo (Commons)Photo record

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