Caroline Haskins Gurrey portraits of Hawaiians, 1905-1909

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Caroline Haskins Gurrey portraitsof Hawaiians, 1905-1909

Gina Rappaport, Sarah Ganderup

2014 May 29

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Table of Contents

Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1Local Call Number(s)....................................................................................................... 2Scope and Contents note................................................................................................ 2Biographical/Historical note.............................................................................................. 1Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 2Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 3

Caroline Haskins Gurrey portraits of HawaiiansNAA.PhotoLot.153

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Collection Overview

Repository: National Anthropological Archives

Title: Caroline Haskins Gurrey portraits of Hawaiians

Date: 1905-1909

Identifier: NAA.PhotoLot.153

Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927

Extent: 50 Prints (silver gelatin)

Language: English .

Administrative Information

Custodial HistoryDonated to the United States National Museum by the US Department of the Interior in 1909(USNM accession 51302).

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Preferred CitationPhoto Lot 153, Caroline Haskins Gurrey portraits of Hawaiians, National AnthropologicalArchives, Smithsonian Institution.

RestrictionsThe collection is open for research.

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Biographical Note

Caroline Haskins Gurrey (ca. 1878-1927) was a pictorialist photographer based in Hawaii who was activeduring the early twentieth century. Born in Oakland, California, Gurrey was initially educated the Universityof California at Berkeley. In 1901, she traveled with her aunt and two cousins to Hawaii, where she metand obtained a job with photographer J. J. Williams. She was making photographs in her pictorialist styleas early as 1902, when her work was praised in the newspaper, The Pacific Commercial Advertiser. Shemarried art dealer Alfred Gurrey the following year and opened her own photo studio in 1907. Between1905 and 1909, Gurrey produced a series of fifty portraits of Native Hawaiians and other young men andwomen of mixed heritage, largely depicting people from the Kamehamaha School. These portraits were


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exhibited at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington, and some were shown at theSan Francisco Exposition (1915).

Scope and Contents

Portraits of young Hawaiian men and women exhibited at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition andmade by photographer Caroline Haskins Gurrey.

Local Call Number(s)

Photo Lot 153, USNM ACC 51302, ANTHRO CAT 259127

Names and Subject Terms

This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:

Subjects:

Hawaiians

Cultures:

Hawaiians

Types of Materials:

Photographs


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Container Listing

Portrait of Hawaiian girl, titled "'Girlhood (front view)", 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 013 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04901200

Photo Lot 153.1

USNM ACC 51302

ANTHRO CAT 259127Copyright: Gurrey, Caroline Haskins; 1909; Copyright: Number126953American Polynesia -- Hawaiian Islands -- Oahu Island/Honolulu

Names: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)Genre/Form: PhotographsCulture: Hawaiians

Portrait of Hawaiian girl, titled "'Girlhood (profile)", 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 014 in mounted on 009 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04901300

Photo Lot 153.2

USNM ACC 51302



Portrait of Hawaiian girl, titled "a Study", 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 013 in mounted on 009 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04901401

Photo Lot 153.3

USNM CAT 51302

ANTHRO CAT 259127

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Copyright: Gurrey, Caroline Haskins; 1909; Copyright: Number126955American Polynesia -- Hawaiian Islands -- Oahu Island/Honolulu


Portrait of "Chinese-Hawaiian" boy, titled "'The Fisher Boy" (front view), 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04901402

Photo Lot 153.4

USNM ACC 51302


Names: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)Genre/Form: PhotographsCulture: Chinese

Hawaiians

Portrait of "Chinese-Hawaiian" boy, titled "The Fisher Boy" (Profile), 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04901500

Photo Lot 153.5

USNM 51302

ANTHRO CAT 259127Copyright: Gurrey, Caroline Haskins; 1909; Copyright: Number126957?American Polynesia -- Hawaiian Islands -- Oahu Island/Honolulu

Names: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 1899Genre/Form: PhotographsCulture: Chinese

Hawaiians

Portrait of Hawaiian boy titled "The Athlete" (front view), 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927








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Notes: NAA INV.04901600

Photo Lot 153.6

USNM ACC 51302



Portrait of Hawaiian boy titled "The Athlete" (profile), 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04901700

Photo Lot 153.7

USNM ACC 51302



Portrait of "French-Hawaiian" girl (front view), 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04901800

Photo Lot 154.8

USNM 51302

ANTHRO CAT 259127Copyright: Gurrey, Caroline Haskins; 1909: Copyright: Number126960American Polynesia -- Hawaiian Islands -- Oahu Island/Honolulu

Names: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)Genre/Form: PhotographsCulture: French

Hawaiians






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Portrait of "French-Hawaiian" girl (profile), 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 011 in mounted on 009 in x 011 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04901900

Photo Lot 153.9

USNM 51302


Names: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)Genre/Form: PhotographsCulture: French

Hawaiians

Portrait of "German-Hawaiian" boy (front view), 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 015 in mounted on 010 in x 015 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.0490200

Photo Lot 153.10

USNM 51302



Germans

Portrait of "German-Hawaiian" girl titled "Composure", 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 013 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04902100

Photo Lot 153.12

USNM ACC 51302

ANTHRO CAT 259127Copyright: Gurrey, Caroline Haskins; 1909: Copyright: Number126964








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American Polynesia -- Hawaiian Islands -- Oahu Island/Honolulu


Germans

Portrait of "German-Hawaiian" girl titled "The Unknown", 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 013 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04902200

Photo Lot 153.13

USNM CAT 51302



Germans

Portrait of "Gilbertese-Hawaiian" girl, 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04902300

Photo Lot 153.14

USNM ACC 51302


Names: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)Genre/Form: PhotographsCulture: Gilbert Islander

HawaiiansGilberts

Portrait of Hawaiian girl titled "The Fisherman's Daughter", 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927








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Notes: NAA INV.04902400

Photo Lot 153.15

USNM ACC 51302



Portrait of "Full Hawaiian" boy, 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04902500

Photo Lot 153.16

USNM ACC 51302



Portrait of young Hawaiian woman, 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 014 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04902600

Photo Lot 153.17

USNM ACC 51302



Portrait of young Hawaiian woman wearing lei, titled "The Lei", 1909






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1 Photographic print (006 in x 014 in mounted on 006 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04902700

Photo Lot 153.18

USNM ACC 51302



Portrait of young "Italian-Hawaiian" woman holding large bowl titled "TheCalabash", 19091 Photographic print (011 in x 009 in mounted on 014 in x 010 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04902800

Photo Lot 153.19

USNM ACC 51302



Italians

Portrait of young "Italian-Hawaiian" woman with large bowl titled "The PoiBowl", 19091 Photographic print (008 in x 014 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04902900

Photo Lot 153.20

USNM ACC 51302









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Italians

Portrait of young "Italian-Hawaiian" woman, 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04903000

Photo Lot 153.21

USNM ACC 51302



Italians

Portrait of "Indian-Hawaiian" girl, 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 013 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04903100

Photo Lot 153.22

USNM ACC 51302



Portrait of "Indian-Hawaiian" girl, 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04903200








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Photo Lot 153.23

USNM ACC 51302



Portrait of "Irish-Hawaiian" girl, 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 011 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04903300

Photo Lot 153.24

USNM ACC 51302


Names: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)Genre/Form: PhotographsCulture: Irish

Hawaiians

Portrait of "Japanese-Hawaiian" and "Portugese-Hawaiian" boys, 19091 Photographic print (013 in x 010 in mounted on 014 in x 010 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04903400

Photo Lot 153.25

USNM ACC 51302



JapanesePortuguese






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Portrait of "Japanese-Hawaiian" boy, 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 012 in mounted on 009 in x 012 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04903500

Photo Lot 153.26

USNM ACC 51302


Names: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)Genre/Form: PhotographsCulture: Japanese

Hawaiians

Portrait of "Japanese-Hawaiian" boy (profile), 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 012 in mounted on 009 in x 012 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04903600

Photo Lot 153.27

USNM ACC 51302



Hawaiians

Portrait of "Japanese-Hawaiian" girl, 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04903700

Photo Lot 153.28

USNM ACC 51302









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Hawaiians

Portrait of "Japanese-Hawaiian" girl (profile), 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 011 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04903800

Photo Lot 153.29

USNM ACC 51302

ANTHRO CAT 259127Copyright: Gurrey, Caroline Haskins; 1909: Copyright: Number126981 ?American Polynesia -- Hawaiian Islands -- Oahu Island/Honolulu


Hawaiians

Portrait of "Norwegian-Hawaiian" girl (Profile), 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 011 in mounted on 009 in x 012 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04903900

Photo Lot 153.30

USNM ACC 51302



Norwegians

Portrait of "Portugese-Hawaiian" boy, 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 010 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04904000








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Photo Lot 153.31

USNM ACC 51302



Portuguese

Portrait of "Portugese-Hawaiian" boy, 19091 Photographic print (012 in x 010 in mounted on 014 in x 010 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04904100

Photo Lot 153.32

USNM ACC 51302



Portuguese

Portrait of "Scotch-Hawaiian" boy, 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04904200

Photo Lot 153.33

USNM ACC 51302



Scots






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Portrait of "Scotch-Irish-American" boy, 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 011 in mounted on 009 in x 013 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04904300

Photo Lot 153.34

USNM ACC 51302



Scots

Portrait of "Scotch-Irish-American" boy, 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 012 in mounted on 009 in x 013 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04904400

Photo Lot 153.35

USNM ACC 51302



Scots

Portrait of Hawaiian boy titled "The Son of Hawaii", 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04904500

Photo Lot 153.36

USNM ACC 51302









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Portrait of "Spanish-Hawaiian" boy titled "Iago", 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04904600

Photo Lot 153.37

USNM ACC 51302



Spanish

Portrait of "Spanish-Hawaiian" boy titled "Iago", 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 013 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04904700

Photo Lot 153.38

USNM 51302



Spanish

Portrait of "Spanish-Hawaiian" girl titled "The Chieftess", 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 014 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04904800








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Photo Lot 153.39

USNM ACC 51302



Spanish

Portrait of "Spanish-Hawaiian" girl titled "The Chieftess", 19091 Photographic print (007 in x 011 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04904900

Photo Lot 153.40

USNM ACC 51302



Spanish

Portrait of "Spanish-Hawaiian" girl titled "The Chieftess" (Profile), 19091 Photographic print (008 in x 010 in mounted on 008 in x 010 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04905000

Photo Lot 153.41

USNM ACC 51302








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Portrait of "Tahitian-Hawaiian" boy, 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04905100

Photo Lot 153.42

USNM ACC 51302



Tahitians

Portrait of "Tahitian-Hawaiian" boy (profile), 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 013 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04905200

Photo Lot 153.43

USNM ACC 51302



Tahitians

Portrait of "Tahitian-Hawaiian" girl, 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04905300

Photo Lot 153.44

USNM ACC 51302









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American Polynesia -- Hawaiian IslandsNames: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)Genre/Form: PhotographsCulture: Hawaiians

Tahitians

Portrait of "Tahitian-Hawaiian" girl (profile), 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 014 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04905400

Photo Lot 153.45

USNM ACC 51302

ANTHRO CAT 259127Copyright: Gurrey, Caroline Haskins; 1909: Copyright: Number126998American Polynesia -- Hawaiian Islands -- Oahu Island?/Honolulu?


Tahitians

Portrait of Hawaiian girl titled "The Ginger Girl", 19091 Photographic print (010 in x 015 in mounted on 010 in x 015 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04905500

Photo Lot 153.46

USNM ACC 51302



Portrait of Hawaiian girl, 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 011 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04905600

Photo Lot 153.47








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USNM ACC 51302



Portrait of Hawaiian girl, 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 011 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04905700

Photo Lot 153.48

USNM ACC 51302

ANTHRO CAT 259127Copyright: Gurrey, Caroline Haskins; 1909:American Polynesia -- Hawaiian Islands -- Oahu Island?/Honolulu?


Portrait of Hawaiian girl (Profile), 19091 Photographic print (009 in x 012 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04905800

Photo Lot 153.49

USNM ACC 51302



Portrait of Hawaiian boy (profile), 19091 Photographic print (008 in x 011 in mounted on 010 in x 014 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.04905900








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Photo Lot 153.50

USNM ACC 51302



Portrait of "German-Hawaiian" boy (profile), 19091 Photographic print (011 in x 013 in mounted on 011 in x 013 in)Image(s)Image(s)Creator: Gurrey, C. H. (Caroline Haskins), ca. 1878-1927Notes: NAA INV.05286400

Photo Lot 153.11

USNM ACC 51302

ANTHRO CAT 259127Copyright: Gurrey, Caroline Haskins; 1909 Copyright: Number126990American Polynesia -- Hawaiian Islands


Germans

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