Archives

Ka Moi yearbook
From 1924 – 1926 available in digital form. Contact the archive for information.

KIC Finding Aid

Abstract: 6 boxes of documents, 4 binder boxes of photographs and slides, assorted posters and awards
Creator: Kamehameha Investment Corporation
Title: The Kamehameha Investment Corporation (KIC) Collection
Bulk dates: 1966-2014
Language of Materials: In English
Size: 10 linear feet

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Provenance: When the program closed in 2014, Kamehameha Investment Corporation deposited their material at The Archive at Kamehameha Schools Museum
Access: With the permission of the archivist or director
Citation: Kamehameha Schools.
Copyright notice: Copyright for these materials resides with Kamehameha Schools. Users are responsible to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.

Finding Aid

Abstract: This collection contains the correspondence between school administrators and Trustees about the business of running an educational institution from 1896 to 1931. From 2015 to 2016, the first box of letters from about 1887-1898 were digitized. Printed letters are bound in five volume books with the sub-title Finding Aid and Facsimiles Volume #.
Title: Kamehameha Schools Letters 1895-1931
Size: 8 linear feet
Access: With the permission of the archivist or director
Collection number: 2016-3
Citation: Kamehameha Schools.
Copyright: Each researcher assumes full responsibility to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.

FINDING AID (2)

KEEP Collection finding aid

Abstract: This collection has 22 boxes of manuscripts, documents and VHS tapes.
Creator: KEEP Kamehameha Early Education Program / Kamehameha Elementary Education Project
Title: The KEEP Collection
Program dates (Gallimore): 1969-1980
Bulk dates: 1970-1995
Language of Materials: In English; in Hawaiian
Size: 21 linear feet
Principal investigators: Roland G. Tharp, Ronald Gallimore

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Provenance: When the program was closed around 1995, program managers and teachers deposited their material at The Archives of Kamehameha Schools Museum. In 2015, materials were processed by Candace W. Lee, Sharon Ahue Cole and Community Service students from the Class of 2016.
Collection Identifier: KEEP 2015
Access: With the permission of the archivist or director
Citation: Kamehameha Schools.
Copyright notice: Copyright for these materials resides with Kamehameha Schools. Users are responsible to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.

Jean Kuuleialoha Kelley (Mrs. John Keale) 1931 – 1993
Ke Kula Kamehameha No Na Kaikamahine, Class of 1952
The first student from Ni‘ihau

Finding Aid

Abstract: This collection has 22 boxes of manuscripts, documents and VHS tapes.
Contents: The Archivist and Assistant Archivist collected a photograph of Jean and her mother on graduation day, a June 1, 1952 by Luryier “Pop” Diamond, Ka Mo‘i articles by and about Jean, and Honolulu newspaper articles. Information about her daughter Jean Ileialoha Keale (KS Class of 1974) and other relatives. Articles are in English and ‘olelo Hawai‘i.
Title: Collection on Jean Kuuleialoha Kelley, 1947-1995.
Size: .5 linear feet
Provenance: The Archivist and Assistant Archivist assembled items from various sources.
Bulk dates: 1947 – 1995
Language: In English; in ‘olelo Hawai‘i. E Nā Lāhui Hawai‘i are ‘olelo Hawai‘i, Hawaiian language articles.
Access: With the permission of the archivist or director.
Collection number: Kelley 2004-9
Box Title: Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate. Alumni. Jean Ku‘uleialoha Kelley. KSG 1952. First KSSG Student from Ni‘ihau. Returned to Ni‘ihau to teach
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Each researcher assumes full responsibility to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.
Biblographic Record: Kamehameha Schools Library Catalog.

Harold Winfield Kent
1900-1990
Kamehameha Schools President
1946-1962

A Guide to the Colonel Harold Winfield Kent Papers

Abstract: This collection includes book manuscripts, bound volumes of school reports, research notes and letters.
Title: The Colonel Harold W. Kent Papers
Size: 9 linear feet (16 gray boxes, 18 books, 3 binders, 2 artifacts
Provenance: The items were collected by the archivists.
Bulk Dates: 1930 – 1985
Access: With permission from the archivist or director.
Collection number: HWKent 2003-2
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Each researcher assumes full responsibility to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.
Bibliographic record: Kamehameha Schools Library Catalog. A Guide to The Colonel Harold Winfield Kent Papers by Janet Zisk and Candace W. Lee.

CHARLES E. KING January 29, 1874 – February 27, 1950

‘O ke Kula Kamehameha No Na Keikikane, Class of 1891

Charles E King Finding Aid

Abstract: The collection contains manuscript and published sheet music. There are 1930’s photographs of his Nu’uanu home and Kualoa home. Assorted inventories and items are included. The manuscript for The Prince of Hawaii is in the collection. Prince of Hawai’i pp1-45 and Prince of Hawai’i pp46-98
Title: The Collection of Charles E. King
Size: 3 linear feet
Provenance: Most items were received sometime in 2014 from the Hawaiʻi Pacific Collection, a special collection of Midkiff Learning Center of Kamehameha Schools, Kapālama. Some sheet music already resided in the Archives. The Prince of Hawaii was purchased.
Bulk dates: 1900-1950
Access: With permission from the archivist or director.
Collection number: CEKing 2014-1
Citation: Kamehameha Schools.
Copyright: Each researcher assumes full responsiblity to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.

Kū‘ē Pono Finding Aid

Abstract: This collection includes 55 DVD of Kū’ē Pono class guest speakers, people who experienced and were influenced by confrontational events of the 1990’s at Kamehameha Schools.
Title: Kū‘ē Pono DVD Collection
Size: 1 linear foot
Provenance: Hawaiian Language kumu David Kawika Eyre, Head Midkiff Learning Center Librarian Gail Fujimoto and Kamehameha Schools Archivist Janet Zisk, realized that students were ignorant of 1990’s events involving the confrontation between the Schools’ trustees and campus faculty, staff and students. They created a Midkiff Learning Center elective class supported by the newly published book, Wayfinding through the Storm by Gavan Daws. Guest speakers who experienced what is now called The Controversy brought those events alive to interested students during the 2010-2013 school years. When Kumu Eyre retired in 2012, Kumu Keala Kwan took over until 2013. DVD of the speakers’ presentations are a resource for student use.
Bulk dates: 1990-2013
Language of materials: In English; in Hawaiian.
Access: With permission from the archivist or director.
Collection number: CH 2013-3
Citation: Kamehameha Schools.
Copyright: Each researcher assumes full responsibility to comply with current U.S. copyright laws. © Kamehameha Schools. Statements of copyright, privacy and disclaimer.

Finding Aid

Tandy Kaohuokaleponi MacKenzie
March 10, 1892 – November 9, 1963

The first world famous Native Hawaiian operatic tenor

Collection_of_Tandy_MacKenzie (41 page .pdf)

Abstract: Tandy’s published biography by his second wife, Jean S. MacKenzie, assorted news clippings, photographs, record albums and posters.
Provenance: The collection presumably was a gift from Mrs. Tandy MacKenzie who gave Tandy’s records, posters and news clippings to Kamehameha Schools. The Bishop Museum has his costumes. Information was added over the years by Janet Zisk and Keith Haugen, a musician and admirer.
Title: The Collection of Tandy MacKenzie
Size: 6 linear feet
Bulk dates: 1900-1963
Access: With the permission of the archivist or director
Collection number: Tandy 2006-2
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Each user assumes full responsibility to comply with U.S. copyright laws.
Bibliographic record: Kamehameha Schools Library Catalog.

Frank E. Midkiff, Ph.D.
Kamehameha Schools President, 1923-1934
Kamehameha Schools Trustee, 1939-1983

Finding Aid Parts 1 and 2 (110 pages.pdf)
Finding Aid Part 3 (49 pages .pdf)

Abstract: The finding aid includes biographical material, publications, studies, awards, artifacts and memorabilia from 1923 to 1983, the years of Frank E. Midkiff’s affiliation with the Kamehameha Schools. The Frank E. Midkiff Collection is the primary collection of the Frank E. Midkiff Papers room located in the lower level of the Frank E. Midkiff Learning Center at Kamehameha Schools, Kapālama.
Title: The Frank E. Midkiff Collection
Size: 274 grey boxes; 135 linear feet (41.15m).
Provenance: The Midkiff Learning Center was named after Frank E. Midkiff. A room was dedicated to his memory. Lela Goodell, a contract archivist, processed his papers in 1988 five years after his death. Mrs. Marjorie Carter Midkiff personally hung the awards on the walls. Two koa display cases lined one wall. One koa display case was in the hallway opposite the doors. Called the Frank E. Midkiff Papers room, there were tables and chairs for a reading room. It was run by the library staff until 1992 when the space was used for the Kamehameha Schools Archives and became a multi-purpose workroom.
Inclusive Dates: 1887-1983
Bulk Dates: 1923-1983
Collection number: 2004-11
Creator: Frank Elbert Midkiff
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Each researcher and user assumes full responsibility to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.
Collection number: FEMidkiff 1988
Bibliographic record: The Kamehameha Schools Library Catalog.
Biographical Note: Frank E. Midkiff, Ph.D, was President and Trustee of Kamehameha Schools and an influential Hawai’i community leader during most of the Twentieth Century.

Finding Aid for the Bina Mossman Collection watermarked

Abbie H. Newton
Kamehameha School for Girls
Principal from 1914-1927

Abbie How Newton Finding Aid

Abstract: The finding aid includes biographical material, publications, studies, awards, artifacts and memorabilia from 1923 to 1983, the years of Frank E. Midkiff’s affiliation with the Kamehameha Schools. The Frank E. Midkiff Collection is the primary collection of the Frank E. Midkiff Papers room located in the lower level of the Frank E. Midkiff Learning Center at Kamehameha Schools, Kapālama.
Abstract: 4 photograph albums. 1 painting. Cadet newspaper articles.
Title: The Collection of Abbie H. Newton
Size: 1.5 cubic feet
Provenance: The photograph albums were given to the Kamehameha School for Girls Library when Miss Newton resigned from her position in 1927. They were placed in the Hawaii Pacific Collection of Midkiff Learning Center that was dedicated in 1977. The call number was H / 919.69/N48 (1-4). The Kamehameha Schools Archives was created in 1992. The Archivist received these albums from the Hawaii Pacific Collection librarian and called this collection The Abbie H. Newton Photograph Albums. In 2015, a revised Finding Aid added an oil painting donated by Miss Newton. The collection name was changed.
Bulk dates: 1914-1927
Collection number: ANewton 2005-2
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Each user assumes full responsibility to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.

1922 Half Mile Relay Trophy

Finding Aid

Randy Kimeona Oness
1910-2002

Kamehameha School for Boys
Class of 1930

Noted Hawaiian Musician and Composer

Finding Aid guide

Abstract: The finding aid includes biographical material, publications, studies, awards, artifacts and memorabilia from 1923 to 1983, the years of Frank E. Midkiff’s affiliation with the Kamehameha Schools. The Frank E. Midkiff Collection is the primary collection of the Frank E. Midkiff Papers room located in the lower level of the Frank E. Midkiff Learning Center at Kamehameha Schools, Kapālama.
Abstract: Musical instruments, sheet music, song books, reference books and audio tapes. Notable are publications of Randy’s compositions and arrangements by Johnny Noble for Randy Oness
Title: The Randy Oness Collection
Size: 24 linear feet (5 musical instruments in cases, 12 brown boxes)
Provenance: Haunani Oness gave her father’s collection to Kamehameha Schools in February 2003. Hailama Farden was the facilitator
Bulk Dates: 1940-1960
Access: With the permission of the archivist or director
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Each user and research assumes full responsibility to comply with U.S. copyright laws.
Collection number: Oness 2003-1
Bibliographic record: The Kamehameha Schools Library Catalog

Biographical Note:
Randall Kimeona Oness was a prominent professional musician during the big-band era of the 1930s and 1940s. He composed over 200 songs. Henry Berger was a mentor. Randy played with the original Harry Owens Band, the Royal Hawaiians and had his own band that played at Queen’s Surf and the Alexander Young Hotel. He was a musician with the famous “Hawaii Calls” radio program and appeared in several Holllywood movies. He was active in the Hawaiian Civic Club and numerous musician’s organizations. In 1999, he won the Na Hoku Hanohano Lifetime Achievement award.

Theodore Richards
‘O ke Kula Kamehameha No Na Keikikane
Kumu 1889-1893, Po’okumu 1893-1898

Theodore Richards Collection Finding Aid

Abstract: This collection contains Theodore Richards and Frank E. Midkiff family letters, documents, manuscripts and photographs
Title: The Theodore Richards Collection
Size: 26 boxes; 14 linear feet
Language of Materials: Materials in English and Hawaiian

Administrative Information
Provenance: Two marked boxes were stored in the Frank E. Midkiff Papers room before the Archive opened in 1992. Other boxes were deposited at various times by Robin Midkiff, great granddaughter. Paul McDonald, a UH Mānoa School of Library and Information Science student intern, rehoused and packed most of the items.
Access: With permission of the archivist or director
Citation: Kamehameha Schools
Copyright Notice: Users of this collection are responsible for using the materials in conformance with U.S. copyright law. Copyright for materials resides with the Kamehameha Schools.

Biographical Information
Theodore Richards (1867-1948) arrived in Honolulu in 1889 as one of the first teachers at Kamehameha School for Boys. He resigned in 1898 to work for the Hawaiian Board of Missions. A notable project was the Kokokahi community in Kāne’ohe, O‘ahu.

JROTC Finding Aid-revised 2015

Abstract: Awards and recognitions; uniforms; helmets; flags and banners; patches; pins; and miscellaneous material from the Kamehameha Schools ROTC program, 1888-2002.
Size: 102 object records encompassing 362 objects (24 linear feet)
Bulk dates: 1941-2002
Provenance: Many materials were donated upon deactivation of the J.R.O.T.C. program; others are gifts from alumni or family of alumni.
Access: With permission of the archivist or director.
Citation: Kamehameha Schools

Song Contest Finding Aid

Abstract: The Song Contest is unique to Kamehameha—a tradition that has involved all students in musical competition for ninety-four years. Miss Laura Brown, Director of Music at Kamehameha 1926–1947, stated that ‘the objectives of the song contest are to build up the repertoire of the best in Hawaiian music for the cultural heritage of any student who attends Kamehameha; to develop leadership, cooperation and good class spirit; and to give students the use of their singing voices and to give them pleasure in singing as a means of expression.’ From the 2015 Song Contest website
Contents: approximately 58 years of programs from 1922-2009 including multiple originals and photocopies. 127 news articles, 21 photographs, 9 handbooks and instructions, 10 memorabilia pieces, 24 photograph albums, 12 lei from retired 9-10 Vice Principal, Fred Kramer, 30 bound music books and 1 music binder.
Title: Collection on Kamehameha Schools Song Contest, 1922-2009
Provenance: items were collected by archivists and continue to be collected as the program continues annually. Another finding aid will cover future years.
Inclusive dates: 1922-2009
Size: 9 linear feet
Collection number: Song Contest 2013-01
Citation: Kamehameha Schools.
Copyright: Each researcher assumes full responsibility to comply with current U.S. copyright laws. © Kamehameha Schools. Statements of copyright, privacy and disclaimer.

Trophy Collection 1907-2003 Finding Aid

Abstract: This is the archive collection of 59 assorted trophies.
Title: Trophy Collection 1907-2003
Language of Materials: Materials in English and Hawaiian
Location: Kamehameha Schools, Kapālama
Size: 12 linear feet

Administrative Information
Provenance: This original Kamehameha School for Boys collection of trophies provide a fair sampling of historical competitive programs. Some of the early trophies are solid sterling silver or silver-plated. They were valuable prizes. Other trophies are copper-plated for the distinctive color. Later trophies of wood, plastic, aluminum and base metals are symbols of honors. Craftsmanship gives the trophies intrinsic value.
Access: With the permission of the archivist or director
Citation: Kamehameha Schools
Copyright Notice: Each researcher assumes full responsibility to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.

Biographical and Historical Note

Kamehameha School for Boys was a vocational and agricultural training program from its founding in 1887 to about 1934 when the Farm School at Haha’ione Valley was closed because of lack of enrollment. Competitions of all kinds were common including the Song Contest whose trophies are used annually and stored by Midkiff Learning Center. In 1966 when the Schools’ administrations merged, the Schools became co-educational. The trophies reflect this change. The Trophy Collection documents the excellence of Kamehameha School for Boys in competition for prizes in agriculture, athletics and other areas.

Finding Aid

1941

Finding Aid Part 1 December 7 page 1 – December 10 page 6

Finding Aid Part 2 December 10 page 7 – December 17 page 8

Finding Aid Part 3 December 18 page 1 – December 24 page 6

Abstract: Maui News on World War II newspapers number about 68 pages. These newspapers are stored in the Hawai’i Pacific Collection of Midkiff Learning Center, Kamehameha Schools, Kapalama and were digitized in 2011.
Dates: December 7, 1941- December 24, 1941
Size: 163 MB, 68 pages
Provenance: The digitization project began as a request from the Maui campus librarian, Ramona Ho. Candace W. Lee, the Assistant Archivist at the time captured the images with a Pentax K-r camera, processed the images, created the Finding Aid and placed the pages online.
Physical Access: With the permission of the Hawai’i Pacific librarian
Citation: Kamehameha Schools. Each researcher assumes full responsibility to comply with current U.S. copyright laws.