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Logo for the Miree Ya Kugani Exhibit: Celebrating 125th Anniversary of Okinawan Immigration to Hawaii
Feb 7 2025
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May 19 2025

Location: Bridge Gallery

On January 8, 1900, twenty-six Okinawan men arrived in Honolulu and were recorded as the first Okinawan immigrants to Hawaii. In the following years, more... View "Miree Ya Kugani: A Bright Hopeful Future - Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of Okinawan Immigration to Hawaii" Exhibit

Herstory 2 Exhibit Poster
Aug 10 2024
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Dec 10 2024

Location: Bridge Gallery

Hamilton Library is hosting a remarkable exhibit offering a unique and profound exploration of Chinese women's history in the U.S. Supreme Court and state supreme... View "Herstory 2: The Legal History of Chinese American Women (1912-2020)" Exhibit

Hoʻomana Exhibit - Lei, Photographs and Jewelry
May 20 2024
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Aug 8 2024

Location: Bridge Gallery

Hamilton Library is honored to be one of the hosts of Hoʻomana (Empower), the 18th installment of Kūkulu, a traveling art installation in honor of... View "Hoʻomana (Empower)" Exhibit

Pries Exhibit - Books in display case and banner titled Advocate
Feb 28 2024
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May 15 2024

Location: Bridge Gallery

Alfred Preis was born in Vienna, Austria on February 2, 1911. He obtained his Architecture diploma in 1938 from the Vienna Technical University. Preis worked... View "Alfred Preis in Hawaiʻi: Vienna Émigré, Architect, and Advocate" Exhibit

7 degrees north exhibit display cases and posters
Aug 21 2023
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Nov 24 2023

Location: Bridge Gallery

7 Degrees North: The Arts of Micronesia on view August 21 - November 24, 2023, in UH Mānoa Hamilton Library Honolulu (August 2023) – “7 Degrees... View "7 Degrees North: The Arts of Micronesia" Exhibit

Building a nuclear free world
Mar 1 2023
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Apr 28 2023

Location: Bridge Gallery

The exhibition is a collaborative project of the Nagasaki and the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Museums, which the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Hamilton Library are... View "Building a Nuclear Free World" Exhibit

Display cases for Filipina/x in Hawaiʻi Exhibit
Oct 19 2021
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Nov 30 2021

Location: Bridge Gallery

By Ellen-Rae Cachola, exhibit curator The following information is available as a pdf From October 19 to November 30, 2021, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton... View "A Digital Exhibit of Filipina/x in Hawaiʻi: Our Movements, Archives, & Memories" Exhibit

Display cases and poster for Beginning and End of the Bomb Exhibit
Mar 2 2020
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Apr 30 2020

Location: Bridge Gallery

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the development and use of nuclear weapons. This exhibit outlines the development of nuclear weapons and their effects... View "Beginning and End of the Bomb Exhibit" Exhibit

A display for Bobby Holcomb flanked by the flags of french polynesia and hawaii
Nov 4 2019
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Jan 16 2020

Location: Bridge Gallery

Synopsis: There are 5 distinct Polynesian cultural-ethnic groups in French Polynesia and 7 Polynesian languages spoken natively. These cultures have a famously long and intriguing... View "Te Moana Nui: French Polynesia and its engagement with Hawaiʻi" Exhibit

Banned Books
Sep 5 2019
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Nov 1 2019

Location: Bridge Gallery

The library is drawing attention to challenge and censorship through the banned books and media exhibit in the bridge gallery The exhibit, in honor of Banned... View "Banned Materials" Exhibit

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