Paniolo Historical Museum & Archives

The Hawaii Council for the Humanities awarded Paniolo Preservation Society (PPS) a $5,000 grant, which was matched by $5,000 in cash and in-kind services provided by PPS. The period of performance for the grant began September 1, 2005, and ended June 30, 2006. The result of this work was an annotated index of the textual holdings of PPS – books, journals, legal documents, biographies, and hundreds of other paper documents.

The catalog can be used in the following way:

• Using the alphabetized list of box contents, look up the folder most likely to contain the item you want.
• Write down the number of the box containing that folder.
• Ask the archivist to locate the proper box and give you the folder.
• Find the item you need inside the folder.
• Return the item and folder to the archivist when you are through.

The Society’s next objective is to start cataloging the document holdings and the collection of photographs. This will require at least two more grants and is likely to be expensive. Photographs have to be placed in plastic envelopes and hard-shell boxes to avoid damage, and we have even more photographs than we do paper documents. The cataloging process will result in photographic subjects being listed in various ways – photo subject, location, activity type, year taken - and associated with a storage container and its identifying number. The same process will be applied to the document collection.  For both documents and photos, it will be possible to cross-reference them between collections, so that a photo of Humuula Station in the AW Carter collection, for example, would reference photos in the Penhallow collection and perhaps documents in the Bergin collection. As a user, you could retrieve two such photos and (for example) a letter from Mr. Bright to Ernest Campbell on that subject.

If you would like to contribute to the continuing cataloging of the PPS collections, please consider a donation or join PPS.