256 •(TAI SING LOO--HAWAII) A thick album of approximately 110 photographs compiled by a U.S. Navy sailor, featuring photographs by official Naval photographer Tai Sing Loo.
The photographs chronicle life in Hawaii, including native Hawaiians producing Tapa, fishing, and ploughing paddy fields; photographs of naval ships and the Hawaiian landscape; sailors touring Hawaii and participating in leisure activities, such as a coconut milk contest; and one print of Tai Sing Loo posed at the edge of Halemaumau Crater. Silver prints, the images measuring 6¾x4¾ inches (17.1x12.1 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, approximately 40 with Tai Sing Loo's credit, inventory number, and/or title, in the negative, and some with descriptions, in ink, on recto. Oblong 4to, black leatherette; ties. 1910s-20s

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