Island of Kauai, Hawaii: Sleeping giant – Vintage Wall Art
![Island of Kauai, Hawaii: Sleeping giant, [193-] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d6/d65abcb01f74-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Island of Kauai, Hawaii: Sleeping giant, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Island of Kauai, Hawaii: Sleeping giant
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Few landforms on Kauai are as recognizable as the Sleeping Giant, a long ridge whose profile resembles a figure lying on his back. This print, credited to Pan Pacific Press and numbered 1570, shows that outline as visitors of the 1930s would have seen it, when island scenery drew growing numbers of tourists. Hawaiian tradition holds that the ridge is a giant who lay down to rest and was turned to stone, a story told by residents for generations. The record gives only the date "193-," so the view is best placed somewhere in that decade.
| Created / published | [193-] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo by Pan Pacific Press Photo. No. 1570. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mountains--Hawaii--Sleeping Giant; Hawaii--Kauai--193-; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,166 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141113 |
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