Period photograph
12 1/4 in x 41 in including frame / 31.1 x 104.1 cm
Provenance: Doc Buyers, Hilo, HI
This 1946 panoramic photograph documents the aftermath of the Hilo tsunami in Hawaiʻi. The long format records a broad view of the damaged waterfront area, with scattered debris, damaged structures, and the townscape visible across the image. As a period photograph, it preserves a direct visual record of one of the most destructive natural disasters in twentieth-century Hawaiʻi.
The panorama format gives the image documentary force, allowing the viewer to read the scale of the destruction across the shoreline. Its restrained black-and-white surface keeps the focus on the site, damage, and historical moment rather than on dramatic effect. With Hilo provenance, the photograph fits within Hawaiiana, disaster history, and mid-twentieth-century documentary photography.
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Period photograph
12 1/4 in x 41 in including frame / 31.1 x 104.1 cm
Provenance: Doc Buyers, Hilo, HI
This 1946 panoramic photograph documents the aftermath of the Hilo tsunami in Hawaiʻi. The long format records a broad view of the damaged waterfront area, with scattered debris, damaged structures, and the townscape visible across the image. As a period photograph, it preserves a direct visual record of one of the most destructive natural disasters in twentieth-century Hawaiʻi.
The panorama format gives the image documentary force, allowing the viewer to read the scale of the destruction across the shoreline. Its restrained black-and-white surface keeps the focus on the site, damage, and historical moment rather than on dramatic effect. With Hilo provenance, the photograph fits within Hawaiiana, disaster history, and mid-twentieth-century documentary photography.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
