“Hawaiian Fishes”. Published in 1905 in Honolulu by the Island Curio Company. David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann with Illustrations attributed to A. H. Baldwin, Charles Bradford Hudson and Kako Morita. More fishes from what I think was an earlier or later edition, too.

Front cover of David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann’s Hawaiian Fishes. 1905. American. Collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Uploaded by the Smithsonian Library and Archives. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/hawaiianfishes00jord/mode/1up
Hawaiian Fish Humuhumu. Page 1 of David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann’s Hawaiian Fishes. 1905. American. Collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Uploaded by the Smithsonian Library and Archives. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/hawaiianfishes00jord/mode/1up
Hawaiian Fish Kihikihi. Page 2 of David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann’s Hawaiian Fishes. 1905. American. Collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Uploaded by the Smithsonian Library and Archives. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/hawaiianfishes00jord/mode/2up
Hawaiian Fish Kapuhili. Page 3 of David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann’s Hawaiian Fishes. 1905. American. Collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Uploaded by the Smithsonian Library and Archives. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/hawaiianfishes00jord/mode/3up
Hawaiian Fish Hinalea. Page 4 of David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann’s Hawaiian Fishes. 1905. American. Collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Uploaded by the Smithsonian Library and Archives. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/hawaiianfishes00jord/mode/4up
Hawaiian Fish Nakunuku. Page 5 of David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann’s Hawaiian Fishes. 1905. American. Collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Uploaded by the Smithsonian Library and Archives. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/hawaiianfishes00jord/mode/5up
Hawaiian Fish Ohua. Page 6 of David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann’s Hawaiian Fishes. 1905. American. Collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Uploaded by the Smithsonian Library and Archives. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/hawaiianfishes00jord/page/n6/mode/1up
Hawaiian Fish Chastodon. Page 7 of David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann’s Hawaiian Fishes. 1905. American. Collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Uploaded by the Smithsonian Library and Archives. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/hawaiianfishes00jord/page/n7/mode/1up
Hawaiian Fish Julis Eydouxi. Page 8 of David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann’s Hawaiian Fishes. 1905. American. Collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Uploaded by the Smithsonian Library and Archives. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/hawaiianfishes00jord/page/n8/mode/1up
Hawaiian Fish Hilupilikoa. Page 10 of David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann’s Hawaiian Fishes. 1905. American. Collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Uploaded by the Smithsonian Library and Archives. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/hawaiianfishes00jord/page/n9/mode/1up
Hawaiian Fish Akilolo. Page 11 of David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann’s Hawaiian Fishes. 1905. American. Collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Uploaded by the Smithsonian Library and Archives. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/hawaiianfishes00jord/page/n10/mode/thumb
Front cover of Hawaiian Fishes. ca. 1905. American. Souvenir book, published immediately after the Honolulu Aquarium (now the Waikiki Aquarium) was founded in 1904. James Steiner. The Island Curio Company, publisher. Printed in Germany. © 2024 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8220/james-steiner/hawaiian-fishes

Hawaiian Flying Fish Malolo. ca. 1905. American. Taken from the souvenir book Hawaiian Fishes, published immediately after the Honolulu Aquarium (now the Waikiki Aquarium) was founded in 1904. James Steiner. The Island Curio Company, publisher. Printed in Germany. © 2024 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8220/james-steiner/hawaiian-fishes
Hawaiian Fish Laipala.ca. 1905. American. Taken from the souvenir book Hawaiian Fishes, published immediately after the Honolulu Aquarium (now the Waikiki Aquarium) was founded in 1904. James Steiner. The Island Curio Company, publisher. Printed in Germany. © 2024 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8220/james-steiner/hawaiian-fishes
Hawaiian Fish Kala.ca. 1905. American. Taken from the souvenir book Hawaiian Fishes, published immediately after the Honolulu Aquarium (now the Waikiki Aquarium) was founded in 1904. James Steiner. The Island Curio Company, publisher. Printed in Germany. © 2024 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8220/james-steiner/hawaiian-fishes
Hawaiian Fish Nohu. Odd Shapes and Bright Colors are Peculiar to Island Fishes. ca. 1905. American. Taken from the souvenir book Hawaiian Fishes, published immediately after the Honolulu Aquarium (now the Waikiki Aquarium) was founded in 1904. James Steiner. The Island Curio Company, publisher. Printed in Germany. © 2024 James E. Arsenault and Company. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8220/james-steiner/hawaiian-fishes

The illustrations from the copy of Hawaiian Fishes with the red cover are reproduced from selected images appearing in The shore fishes of the Hawaiian Islands with a general account of the fish fauna, by David Starr Jordan and B.W. Evermann (part 1 of The aquatic resources of the Hawaiian Islands, published between 1905 and 1906; based on specimens collected by the United States Fish Commission during the 1902 expedition of the steamer Albatross)

Illustrations attributed to A. H. Baldwin, Charles Bradford Hudson and Kako Morita, based on their names appearing as illustrator on similar plates in The aquatic resources of the Hawaiian Islands. The images are taken from a scanned version in the Collections of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Uploaded by the Smithsonian Library and Archives, it is available on the Internet Archive.

Also a few more fish from what looks to be a different edition of the same Hawaiian Fishes but with the cover being blue not red. These having been found up for sale by the rare book dealer James A. Arsenault with the description on their website stating that:

This appealing souvenir book, published immediately after the Honolulu Aquarium (now the Waikiki Aquarium) was founded in 1904, reproduces illustrations made by A. H. Baldwin, Charles Bradford Hudson (who was actually in Honolulu in 1901, sketching local fish), and the Japanese painter Kako Morita. According to the promotional information on the rear paste-down, the Aquarium typically displayed “600 to 1000 fishes of approximately 200 varieties. Those shown in the pictures published herewith are only a few of the most striking specimens.” These illustrations include the “Humuhumu,” the state fish of Hawaii, alongside several other fish native to Hawaii’s waters. Unlike the scientific captions accompanying The Aquatic Resources’ illustrations, this collection presents the fish with their Hawaiian names, with occasional comments on the peculiarity of fish in Hawaii. The promotional material contends that “[l]anguage cannot do this subject [Hawaii’s fish] justice. No words can accurately portray what one has seen here. The fish are odd in shape and have all the hues of the rainbow. The tints are laid on as if with a brush and yet no painter could imitate them. No visitor to Honolulu should fail to see the Aquarium.” The promotion further notes that the Aquarium “is visited by about 50,000 persons annually” who are each charged “[a]n admission fee of 25 cents’’ to assist with “operating, enlarging and improving the exhibit.” The fish of the Aquarium, once pictured by the Island Curio Co., “became mass commodities in a visual economy of images that linked Hawai‘i with America and Europe” (“Extended Personhood”).


As far as I can determine I haven’t used these chromolithographs before. I’ve found them on their website before and it is it’s own post. Should I be mistaken well these are fun images and I for one am happy to see them again with new fish to add to the school.

On vacation in Honolulu. Photographs from a ca. 1900 handmade photograph album with the lettering on the cover reading “Honolulu Views.” The name of the tourist whose album it was is not known but his or her pictures are fun.

Front cover of a homemade string-bound photograph album with Honolulu Views in gilt script on the front cover. ca. 1900. © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. Fair use license. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/60/honolulu-hawaii-handmade-c-1900-photo-album.
Government Building. Page from a homemade string-bound photograph album with Honolulu Views in gilt script on the front cover. ca. 1900. © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. Fair use license. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/60/honolulu-hawaii-handmade-c-1900-photo-album.
Hawaiian Hotel. Page from a homemade string-bound photograph album with Honolulu Views in gilt script on the front cover. ca. 1900. © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. Fair use license. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/60/honolulu-hawaii-handmade-c-1900-photo-album.
Entrance to the Whitney residence. Page from a homemade string-bound photograph album with Honolulu Views in gilt script on the front cover. ca. 1900. © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. Fair use license. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/60/honolulu-hawaii-handmade-c-1900-photo-album.
Picnic party at Tonights (?) Villa. Page from a homemade string-bound photograph album with Honolulu Views in gilt script on the front cover. ca. 1900. © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. Fair use license. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/60/honolulu-hawaii-handmade-c-1900-photo-album.
R. M. S. (Royal Mail Ship) Steamer ‘China’ taken as we were towing out. Page from a homemade string-bound photograph album with Honolulu Views in gilt script on the front cover. ca. 1900. © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. Fair use license. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/60/honolulu-hawaii-handmade-c-1900-photo-album.
Diamond Head. Page from a homemade string-bound photograph album with Honolulu Views in gilt script on the front cover. ca. 1900. © 2023 House of Mirth Photos. Fair use license. via https://www.houseofmirthphotos.com/pages/books/60/honolulu-hawaii-handmade-c-1900-photo-album.

Botanical pictures with more than a whiff of a lei and a tropical sea. Taken from Mrs. Francis Sinclair’s “Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian islands” which was published in London in 1885.

"Ohai." Page 105.
“Ohai.” Page 105. Collection of the National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/CAT11021591/page/n105

"Kolokolo-Kuahiwi. Page 126.
“Kolokolo-Kuahiwi. Page 126. Collection of the National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/CAT11021591/page/n126

"Papala." Page 194.
“Papala.” Page 194. Collection of the National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/CAT11021591/page/n194

"Ohia-AI." Page 182.
“Ohia-AI.” Page 182.Collection of the National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/CAT11021591/page/n182

"Ieie." Page 30.
“Ieie.” Page 30. Collection of the National Agricultural Library, United States Department of Agriculture. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/CAT11021591/page/n30

An envisioning . . . 1932 and a cocktail on the veranda at the officer’s club outside Honolulu.

Oh to be there.

Hawaii and the breeze wandering through the palm trees. Winter to spend and spring back home in New York. Cuba maybe next year but not this. No, someone’s cousin stationed at Pearl Harbor and dinner following dinner along with gin and tonics that never end.

Ballroom to dance in upstairs and men in white uniforms everywhere. Waiters with their trays, men mowing the lawn and gentlemen to dine and dance with.

A treat. Many places just as pretty but this one the old Haleiwa Hotel with memories of honeymooning from before the war. Flying boat over from Los Angeles faster than the old steamers were and just as exciting.  The lobby different what with no desk clerk but the same potted palms set around and fans overhead.

A joy. Picture of the place colored up in the old days lying on a table and somehow sneaking into one’s handbag. . . not nice but what can one do . . . not there forever and the husband gone three years later. . .something to keep in the jewelry box where no one ever dies.

Haleiwa Hotel on Oahu in its final reuse as a World War II officer's club.
Haleiwa Hotel on Oahu in its final reuse as a World War II officer’s club. Built in 1899 and demolished in the 1950’s. Hand tinted photograph. via Facebook.

Paintings of erupting Hawaiian volcanoes that look spookier than last summer’s pictures . . .the fire goddess must have been having a major tantrum . . Jules Tavernier, French artist (1844-1889). Member of the Hawaiian Volcano School.

Untitled (Dripping Lava). 1886.
Untitled (Dripping Lava). 1886. Oil on canvas. Collection of the National Park Service, Volcanoes National Park. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Untitled_(Dripping_Lava)%27_by_Jules_Tavernier,_1886,_oil.jpg.

"Kīlauea Caldera, Sandwich Islands." 1886.
“Kīlauea Caldera, Sandwich Islands.” 1886. Oil on canvas. Photo credit: wmpearl. Collection of the San Diego Museum of Art. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kilauea_Caldera,_Sandwich_Islands_by_Jules_Tavernier,_San_Diego_Museum_of_Art.JPG.

"Full Moon over Kilauea." 1887.
“Full Moon over Kilauea.” 1887. Oil on canvas. Location not given. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jules_Tavernier%27s_painting_%27Full_Moon_over_Kilauea%27,_1887.jpg.

"Le Volcan Kilauea." 1887
“Le Volcan Kilauea.” 1887. Oil on canvas. Location not available. via https://leprincelointain.blogspot.com/2016/12/jules-tavernier-1844-1889-le-volcan.html.

"Volcano, Kilauea, Island of Hawaii." 1885.
“Volcano, Kilauea, Island of Hawaii.” 1885. Gouache and pastel on paper. Collection of the National Park Service, Volcanoes National Park. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Volcano,_Kilauea,_Island_of_Hawaii%27_by_Jules_Tavernier,_1885,_gouache_and_pastel_.jpg

All artworks in the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over a hundred years.