U.S. Army gun crews manning railroad guns as they proceed along a railroad. A field filled with massive columns of thousands of American soldiers in precise formations, performing drills. Army demolition teams blowing up parts of hillside to prepare defensive positions. Bulldozers and steam shovels removing rock and earth. Railroad gun crews maneuver their gun barrels as their train is in motion. Steam locomotive train moving and pulling the railroad guns.
Photographic portraits,in a museum, showing with names and travel information about early American pioneer settlers in Hawaii. Includes photographs of the so-called "Pioneer Company" that arrived at Kailua, on the Brigantine Thaddeus, after 164 days at sea, from Boston, Massachusetts, landing at Monolala, April 19, 1820. Likewise, photos of settlers in the "Second Company" are shown. They arrived on the Schooner Aclife, from Tahiti, on February 4, 1823, and other who arrived on the Ship Thames, sailing 158 days from New Haven, Connecticut, arriving at Honolulu. Among pioneers identified are: Samuel Ruggles and his wife, Nancy; Artemas Bishop and Mrs Della (Stone) Bishop; and Mrs Clarissa Richards.
A ship dock at Kauai, Hawaii. Admiral Marvel boards the USS Pennsylvania. Soldiers line up on the ship and greet the Admiral. They salute him. Buildings and trees in the background. The battleship underway at sea. Smoke rises from the ship stacks. Soldiers at the Kealakekua Bay discovered by Captain James Cook on January 16, 1779.
Views of the city of Honolulu, Hawaii. A large home fronted by royal palms. Pedestrian traffic on King St. in the business district, including Japanese and Chinese in native costumes. Open front of a Japanese tea store. Women and children outside the store. A peddler carries vegetable produce in baskets hung from a pole across his shoulders. Views of the Hawaii Railway, Hamakua Coast, Hawaii island: Interior of a passenger car. Countryside and tunnels viewed from the train. A very high railway bridge with a sugar cane flume below it, across a valley on the Hamakua Coast.
A pineapple plantation in Hawaii. Workers cut pineapples by hand. The pineapples are canned for shipment to America. In a cannery, workers sort the pineapples.
A plantation in Hawaii. A man climbs a palm tree. Another man examines a papaya. Two men carry a hot tub the contents of which are covered with a cloth. A group around the tub on the ground prepares roots. A steaming tub of taro root over an open fire with a man poking at the fire. The roots are dumped into a shallow wooden bowl and pounded to pulp with wooden tools. Two men knead and pound the poi. A man tastes the poi while pounding it.
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