Lot 1288
HAWAII.
4 October 2010, 10:00 EDT
New YorkUS$2,000 - US$3,000
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Album containing 55 gelatin silver prints, 90 x 110 mm or smaller, c.1906, limp chamois, lettered on upper cover "A.S.C. Ainahau 1906," yapp edges rubbed, calf-backed solander box.
Album assembled for Archibald Scott Cleghorn [1835-1910], Royal Governor of Hawaii, husband to Princess Miriam Likelike and father of Princess Victoria Kaiulani. It is inscribed to him by C.W. Case Deering, a wealthy Chicagoan who constructed an exotic house on Waikiki Beach and was an early Hawaii motorist (he escaped a speeding ticket in 1904). Images include several portraits of Cleghorn; interiors and gardens of Ainahau, his home with Princess Likelike; several groups showing Cleghorn with others, probably his daughters from his first marriage, their husbands, and perhaps Deering. Some of the photographs may have been taken in Kapiolani Park, which Cleghorn designed.
Provenance: property of an East Coast collector.
Album assembled for Archibald Scott Cleghorn [1835-1910], Royal Governor of Hawaii, husband to Princess Miriam Likelike and father of Princess Victoria Kaiulani. It is inscribed to him by C.W. Case Deering, a wealthy Chicagoan who constructed an exotic house on Waikiki Beach and was an early Hawaii motorist (he escaped a speeding ticket in 1904). Images include several portraits of Cleghorn; interiors and gardens of Ainahau, his home with Princess Likelike; several groups showing Cleghorn with others, probably his daughters from his first marriage, their husbands, and perhaps Deering. Some of the photographs may have been taken in Kapiolani Park, which Cleghorn designed.
Provenance: property of an East Coast collector.