Hawaii, United States
1920s
Hand-colored photograph, framed
Height: 10½ in (26.7 cm), Width: 23½ in (59.7 cm), including frame, minor bowing
Provenance: Randolph Crossley, Carmel, California
Hand-colored panoramic photographs of Hawaiian harbors and waterfronts were produced throughout the territorial period as decorative and documentary works, capturing the built environment of the islands at a moment of significant transition between the annexation of 1898 and statehood in 1959. Panoramic format photographs of this width are less common than standard format examples and required either a wide-angle lens or a rotating camera mechanism, giving them a documentary scope that single-frame photographs of the same subjects cannot match. The Carmel, California provenance through Randolph Crossley connects this piece to the mainland California collecting tradition for Hawaiian material, where interest in territorial-era Hawaii has historically been concentrated.
The image depicts a Hawaiian waterfront townscape with harbor, buildings, and a prominent hillside backdrop, hand-colored in the muted greens and blues characteristic of 1920s Hawaiian photographic colorist work. The wide horizontal format gives the image a landscape painting quality, and the period frame is intact with minor bowing noted.
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Hawaii, United States
1920s
Hand-colored photograph, framed
Height: 10½ in (26.7 cm), Width: 23½ in (59.7 cm), including frame, minor bowing
Provenance: Randolph Crossley, Carmel, California
Hand-colored panoramic photographs of Hawaiian harbors and waterfronts were produced throughout the territorial period as decorative and documentary works, capturing the built environment of the islands at a moment of significant transition between the annexation of 1898 and statehood in 1959. Panoramic format photographs of this width are less common than standard format examples and required either a wide-angle lens or a rotating camera mechanism, giving them a documentary scope that single-frame photographs of the same subjects cannot match. The Carmel, California provenance through Randolph Crossley connects this piece to the mainland California collecting tradition for Hawaiian material, where interest in territorial-era Hawaii has historically been concentrated.
The image depicts a Hawaiian waterfront townscape with harbor, buildings, and a prominent hillside backdrop, hand-colored in the muted greens and blues characteristic of 1920s Hawaiian photographic colorist work. The wide horizontal format gives the image a landscape painting quality, and the period frame is intact with minor bowing noted.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
