Appeal in Hawaiian and English
In 1897, more than 21,000 native Hawaiians—out of a population of less than 40,000—signed this petition opposing the annexation of Hawaii. It contributed to the...
December 7 destruction
This photograph of the damage to Hickham Air Field, Hawaii, was originally taken by a Navy photographer. It was later an exhibit in a court case concerning the...
Lee Wai She and her children
Lee Wai She and her five children were photographed in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, in 1913.
No drill
This is the Boston Naval Yard’s copy of a December 7, 1941, dispatch from the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific, which announced the surprise Japanese attack on...
Pearl Harbor, January 1941
This aerial photograph shows the naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii (then the Territory of Hawaii), on January 17, 1941. The U.S. Navy was in the process of...
Photograph of the U.S.S. Maddox
This photograph was taken in May 1964, as the U.S.S. Maddox sailed into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Maddox served during World War II and the Korean War...
Senator’s father
Hyatoro Inouye immigrated to the Hawaiian Territory from Japan as a child aboard the S.S. City of Peking on July 24, 1899. Hyatoro and his Hawaiian wife Kame...