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1895. Citizens' Guard CITIZENS GUARD - Officers of the Citizen's Guard. Reading from left to right -Standing - Hugh Gunn and Geo. W. Smith. Sitting - Andrew Brown Citizens' Guard (Schultzen Club) CITIZENS GUARD - Sharp Shooters. Left to right-...

HONOLULU RIFLES - Col. V. V. Ashford Robert W. Wilcox (Pictures from the Hawaii State Archives) Robert W. Wilcox, a young Hawaiian who had been sent to Italy to receive a military education, returned to the Islands and began organizing...

HONOLULU RIFLES - Col. V. V. Ashford CAPT. SAMUEL NOWLEIN - 7x9 photo shows Capt. Nowlein, commander, in military uniform of the Royal Household Guards MR. CHARLES T. GULICK Robert W. Wilcox 1895 Jan Company "B", National Guard Hawaii. January...

1894 “COME HOME WITH ME FATHER”Early day photographs of Hawaii’s military clowning in uniform are practically non-existent. In this rare picture, Corporal Paul Smith (Right) of the national guard is seen playfully shaking his clenched right fist at a thirsty...

1860-1873 Some three years later, in 1860, the lst Hawaiian Cavalry was revived and became known as the Leleiohoku Guard: It was composed almost entirely of Hawaiians, with several business men as officers. The troop had almost one hundred members,...

1874 King Kalakaua organized an infantry company of native volunteers, named the Mamalahoas. Kalakaua took a deep interest in these two volunteer companies and frequently appeared personally at the armory to take part in the drill, himself acting as colonel....

Plague During the Bubonic Plague 1/20/1900Refugee at the Kawaihao Church grounds Chinatown- Nuuanu and Hotel St.January 1900 during the bubonic plague Photo taken for the Board of Health during the epidemic of bubonic plague, 1900, ChinatownS. Nishi- Nuuanu near Beretania...

Company A Col. Soper and Staff. Left to right- Standing - J.W. Pratt, Dr. C.B. Cooper, W.W. Hall, A. Gartenberg. Sitting - J.H.Fisher, Col. J.H. Soper and G.F. McLeod (Picture from Hawaii State Archives) Officers of Company A. Left to...

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Military - Royal Household Guard and Band (Picture from Hawaii State Archives) 1854 A few months before his death in 1854, Kamehameha III completely reorganized the military system of the Islands. This was made law by "An Act, to Establish...

28 FEB 1857 - 12 SEP 1873 The men who had belonged to the 1st Hawaiian Guard decided that the only way they had of insuring their own safety was to form a new volunteer company. During the early part...

KAMEHAMEHA I, RULER OF HAWAII, 1795-1819Wearing a Feather Cape and the Royal Order of Kamehameha I. DAVID KALAKAUA, KING OF HAWAII, 1874-91Wearing Hawaiian Military Uniform Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Colonel John H. Soper, Disbanding the Household Guards, January 18, 1893....