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Princess of Mauoa" float Honolulu" – Antique Wall Art

Princess of Mauoa" float Honolulu", 1909 March 18. — historic print
Princess of Mauoa" float Honolulu", 1909 March 18.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Princess of Mauoa" float Honolulu"

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A float carrying a "Princess of Mauoa" rolled through Honolulu on March 18, 1909, in the kind of decorated procession the city often staged in those years. Mauoa is a valley behind the city, so naming the float after it tied the parade to local place and island stories rather than mainland themes. The photograph comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news pictures made in the early twentieth century, and it shows how Honolulu's pageants mixed Hawaiian imagery with the tastes of a territory that had been part of the United States since 1898.

Created / published1909 March 18.
MediumLOT 7227 [P&P]Check for an online group record (may link to related items)
GenreNo. 666-8. George Grantham Bain Collection.
Subjects1 photographic print.
Original scan1,536 × 944 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169330

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