The Snapshots in Time Collection
Album Page, Honolulu Liberty Photographs: Koko Head, Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Hula Dancers, and Aloha Tower, 1939
This 1939 photo album page preserves a sailor's shore-leave impressions of Honolulu, Hawaii, likely taken during a U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet port call. The four mounted snapshots capture the volcanic profile of Koko Head, the celebrated Royal Hawaiian Hotel at Waikiki Beach, a group of hula dancers performing for visitors, and the newly built Aloha Tower overlooking Honolulu Harbor. Together these images reflect the popular tourist sites that shaped sailors' memories of Hawaii in the years just before the outbreak of the Pacific War, when Honolulu was both a working naval port and a growing destination for leisure travel. Project: 218720