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Robert F. Walden Collection Digital Images - Civilian Housing Area III

All photographs come from the Robert F. Walden Collection and depict civilian housing and recreational facilities at Pearl Harbor, Hawaiʻi.   Additional details and descriptive notes for these images can be found on page 37 of the Photograph Inventory of the Robert F. Walden Collection. For information about copyright status or permission to reproduce these images, please contact the Archives & Manuscripts Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library.


Map of Civilian Housing Area III

  • Description: Layout map of Civilian Housing Area III.
  • Date: [Circa October 1944]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 01

 

 

 

New workers arrive by ship

  • Description: No caption. [New Navy Yard workers arrive by ship.]
  • Date: [Circa March 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 02

 

 

 

Train bringing workers from Honolulu

Description: Pearl Harbor Navy Yard workers from Honolulu traveled to work by train.

Date: Undated

ID Number: CHAIII 03

 

Buses at the terminal station

  • Description: Buses at terminal station [transport Civilian Housing Area III workers to and from their jobs at the Navy Yard].
  • Date: [Circa February 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 04

 

 

Buses transport workers

  • Description: No caption. [Victory buses bring workers home from the Navy Yard to Civilian Housing Area III.]
  • Date: [Circa June 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 05

 

 

New arrivals to Civilian Housing Area III

  • Description: New arrivals checking in at the Hall of Flags.
  • Date: [Circa March 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 06

 

 

 

New arrivals to Civilian Housing Area III

  • Description: No caption. [New arrivals to Civilian Housing Area III.]
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 07

 

 

New arrivals to Civilian Housing Area III

  • Description: No caption. [New arrivals to Civilian Housing Area III.]
  • Date: [Circa December 1944]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 08

 

 

 

 

Worker accommodations

  • Description: No caption. [Worker accommodations at Civilian Housing Area III.]
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 09

 

 

“Leaping Tuna,” transportation

  • Description: “Leaping Tuna,” Civilian Housing Area III transportation. Hall of Flags in background.
  • Date: [Circa July 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 10

 

 

A la carte line at cafeteria

  • Description: No caption. [A la carte line in cafeteria.]
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 11

 

 

 

A la carte line at cafeteria

  • Description: A la carte line.
  • Date: [Circa March 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 12

 

 

 

A la carte line at cafeteria

  • Description: No caption. [A la carte line in cafeteria.]
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 13

 

 

 

Galley of Messing Club

  • Description: Galley of Messing Club.
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 14

 

 

 

Galley of Messing Club

  • Description: No caption. [Galley of Messing Club.]
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 15

 

 

 

Food preparation

  • Description: No caption. [Food preparation and consumption at Civilian Housing Area III.]
  • Date: [Circa January 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 16

 

 

Messing Club No.1

  • Description: Messing Club No. 1. [Depicts a Navy mess hall that was later converted into the Civilian Housing Area III’s a la carte restaurant.]
  • Date: [Circa 1942]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 17

 

 

Post office

  • Description: No caption. [Post office at Civilian Housing Area III.]
  • Date: [Circa January 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 18

 

 

 

Barber shop

  • Description: No caption. [Barber shop at Civilian Housing Area III.]
  • Date: [Circa January 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 19

 

 

 

Snack stand

  • Description: No caption. [Stand selling fruit and snacks to the workers.]
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 20

 

 

Delicatessen

  • Description: No caption. [Delicatessen at Civilian Housing Area III.]
  • Date: [Circa July 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 21

 

 

 

Official inspection party

  • Description: Official inspection party at Civilian Housing Area III. Admiral Furlong in lead. Admiral Nimitz on left?
  • Date: 8 April 1943
  • ID Number: CHAIII 22

 

 

Workers paying rent

  • Description: Workers pay rent for Civilian Housing Area III accommodations [at the Administration Office].
  • Date: [Circa July 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 23

 

 

Workers paying rent

  • Description: Workers pay rent for Civilian Housing Area III accommodations.
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 24

 

 

 

Soft drink stand

  • Description: No caption. [Civilian Housing Area III soft drink stand.]
  • Date: [Circa January 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 25

 

 

Outdoor beer garden

  • Description: No caption. [Crowd at Civilian Housing Area III outdoor beer garden.]
  • Date: [Circa June 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 26

 

 

 

Fire truck and crew

  • Description: No caption. [Civilian Housing Area III fire truck and crew.]
  • Date: [Circa March 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 27

 

 

Library under construction

  • Description: Civilian Housing Area III library under construction [at the side of the Hall of Flags].
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 28

 

 

Hall of Flags

  • Description: Hall of Flags [recreation building].
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 29

 

 

 

Hall of Flags ceremony

  • Description: Hall of Flags [ceremony of raising Hawaiian flag].
  • Date: [Circa November 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 30

 

 

 

View from Hall of Flags

  • Description: From roof of Hall of Flags looking towards Diamond Head.
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 31

 

 

View from Hall of Flags

  • Description: From roof of Hall of Flags on 15th Street. Future site of bowling alley and boxing arena.
  • Date: [Circa February 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 32

 

 

Bowling alley

  • Description: “After” picture. Bowling alley constructed.
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 33

 

 

 

View from Hall of Flags

  • Description: No caption. [View from the roof of the Hall of Flags on 15th Street. Future site of bowling alley and boxing arena.]
  • Date: [Circa February 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 34

 

 

Beer garden under construction

  • Description: Civilian Housing Area III “Beer Garden” under construction.
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 35

 

 

Beer garden

  • Description: Drinking beer at “Beer Garden” during off-work hours.
  • Date: [Circa January 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 36

 

 

 

Sports field bleachers

  • Description: No caption. [Back of sports field bleachers.]
  • Date: Undated
  • ID Number: CHAIII 37

 

 

 

Sports field bleachers

  • Description: Back of softball field bleachers. Kamehameha Highway train track to/from Honolulu.
  • Date: 1942?
  • ID Number: CHAIII 38

 

 

Sports field

  • Description: No caption. [Unfinished Civilian Housing Area III sports field. Site of the future Furlong Field.]
  • Date: [Circa 1942]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 39

 

 

Site of Furlong Field

  • Description: Site of Furlong Field.
  • Date: Circa 1942-1943
  • ID Number: CHAIII 40

 

 

 

Dedication of sports field

  • Description: Opening game of the 1943 season. [Dedication of the Civilian Housing Area III sports field.]
  • Date: 14 February 1943
  • ID Number: CHAIII 41

 

 

Dedication of sports field

  • Description: No caption. [Dedication of the Civilian Housing Area III sports field.]
  • Date: [14 February 1943]
  • ID Number: CHAIII 42

 

 

Dedication of sports field

  • Description: Opening game of the 1943 season. [Dedication of the Civilian Housing Area III sports field.]
  • Date: 14 February 1943
  • ID Number: CHAIII 43

 

 

Army-Navy football game

  • Description: Army-Navy football game at Furlong Field.
  • Date: 7 January 1945
  • ID Number: CHAIII 44

 

 

 

Army-Navy football game

  • Description: Army-Navy football game at Furlong Field.
  • Date: 7 January 1945
  • ID Number: CHAIII 45

 

 

 

Army-Navy football game

  • Description: Army-Navy football game at Furlong Field.
  • Date: 7 January 1945
  • ID Number: CHAIII 46

 

 

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