Travels to Nihoa, 1885.

EXCURSION TO NIHOA.

At 5 o’clock in the evening of this past Monday, the steamer Iwalani took the travellers to the farthest away island of Hawaii nei, Nihoa. And amongst the famous passengers who went on this trip was Her Highness, the Alii, Princess Liliuokalani, accompanied by her steward, Charles B. Wilson, and the haole captain’s passengers, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hoffnung, Miss Ella Hoffnung, Rev. J. Hemphill and his wife, Hon. S. B. Dole, W.W. Hall, Rev. S. E. Bishop, J. Jaeger [J. Iager], Henry Jaeger [J. Iaeger], E. S. Cunha and his wife, J. Williams photographer, the travelling companions of the alii, Mrs. Emma Kapena and her daughter, Mrs. Hattie Kamakanoa, Mrs. Kahuila Wilcox, Miss L. Nakanealoha, Hon. J. Kaae and his wife, Hon. J. T. Baker and his wife, Hon. J. Keau and his wife, Major J. Holt, H. W. Auld, W. Holt and his wife, Mrs. Emma Beckley, Mrs. Kahaunaele, Mrs. M. A. Lemon, Jack Ailau and his wife, Sophia Sheldon, Mrs. Anna Costa, Lily Richards, and the other passengers under the alii that number 42 more. Continue reading

Yew Char in the legislature, 1926.

Rise of Yew Char to Position In Legislature Like Alger Story

First American of Full Chinese Ancestry To Have Place In Lower House

Was Once Bootblack and Newsboy On the Streets of Honolulu

From newsboy and bootblack, plying his trades in the streets of Honolulu, to member of the house of representatives of the territorial legislature, summarizes the career of Yew Char, local photographer who is the first American citizen of pure Chinese ancestry to be accorded a seat in the law-making body. Continue reading

Yew Char returns, 1916.

CHINESE OF HONOLULU COMPLETES COURSE IN ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY

YEW CHAR

Studied Profession Two Years In Chicago College—May Enter Business Here

Yew Char, a well known Chinese boy of Honolulu has just finished a two year course of study in a Chicago photographic institution and is returning to the city as an expert camera man and technical man in the great modern art. He is the first Chinese to obtain a complete education in this business. Continue reading

On Char with Kauai photographers, 1934.

Kauai Photographers

Several of the leading Japanese photographers on Kauai are pictured above with On Char, secretary of the territorial board of photography, who visited the Garden Island last week to conduct examinations to applicants for certificates and also to investigate the unlicensed photographers on the  island. Continue reading

City Photo, 10th anniversary, 1922.

Announcing the
Tenth Anniversary
of the
City Photo CO.

PORTRAIT AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS

Mr. On Char, in 1912, started the City Photo Co. His first advent into the photographic field was in 1904 when he entered the employ of the Rice & Perkins Studio of this city.

In 1920, Mr. Char went to the mainland to take up a post graduate course at The New York Institute of Photography and upon his return rejoined this concern. Mr. Char is a member of the Photographers’ Association of America. Continue reading

City Photo 20th anniversary, 1932.

1912  1932

TWENTY

Years of

Photo

Progress…

MISS BETTY ILIMA GODFREY
First Birthday March 29, 1932

OUR
“BIRTHDAY
OFFER”

To mark our twentieth birthday, tomorrow, we will present free a full cabinet-size photo to each child whose first birthday falls in April, 1932. If you have a baby born in April, 1931, come to our studio and get a ticket calling for a future appointment. This ticket is free. Then at the time appointed, bring the baby, have the picture taken, and we will give you, without charge, one full-sized cabinet photo of the youngster.

“OPEN HOUSE”

“Open House” tomorrow at the City Photo Studio from 12 noon to 5 p.m., and in the evening from 7 to 9 p.m. You are welcome to come and enjoy our Twentieth Anniversary with us.

No appointment for sitting during our “open house” hours tomorrow. However, dates for future sittings may be arranged.

City Photo Studio is twenty years old tomorrow—March 30, 1932. Twenty years ago this studio began in a small way. Now it is modernly-equipped in every respect, with large quarters, best of apparatus, skilled personnel, and a host of friends built up over 20 years of friendly dealing.

In these 20 years thousands of people have had their pictures taken in our studio. Thousands of boys and girls whose childhood pictures were made here have grown up to manhood and womanhood.

Many of these have kept every photo taken since babyhood. They now have albums full of family pictures—rarely treasured volumes, intensely interesting now and more interesting as the years go on.

City Photo Studio is always glad to help its patrons fill these albums with cherished pictures. No other memento is quite so intimate, so attractive, as the family picture album. Come in and see us any time and let us suggest how you may prepare such an album.

CITY PHOTO STUDIO

ON CHAR, Proprietor

15 S. Hotel Street   Telephone 3585

Authorized Representatives, International Photographer Association

(Star-Bulletin, 3/29/1932, p. 3)

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Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Volume XXXIX, Number 12522, Page 3. March 29, 1932.