The Snapshots in Time Collection

Album Page, Honolulu Sightseeing Photographs: Kamehameha Statue, Waikiki Sunset, and Nuuanu Pali, 1939

Album Page, Honolulu Sightseeing Photographs: Kamehameha Statue, Waikiki Sunset, and Nuuanu Pali, 1939

This page from a 1939 U.S. Navy scrapbook continues a sailor's tour of Oahu landmarks during Pacific Fleet shore leave. Two photographs feature the bronze statue of King Kamehameha I, Hawaii's revered founding monarch, shown from different vantage points near Honolulu's government buildings. A silhouetted Waikiki sunset and an elevated view of the famed Nuuanu Pali pass round out the page, illustrating the natural and historical sites that drew off-duty sailors during the final peacetime years before the Pacific War. Project: 218720