Here I am sorting my digital collection of ʻEmalani images, trying to arrange them chronologically, to find provenance of them all, and to start including a little history.
With Dr. & Mrs. Rooke. Original photo at the Bishop Museum. https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/item/ark:70111/1z99Emma and Alexander Liholiho were married on June 19, 1856
Alekanetero ʻIolani Kalanikualiholiho Maka o ʻIouli Kūnuiākea o Kūkāʻilimoku (Kamehameha IV) and Queen Emma Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke 1862 image by Henry L Chase , Front Street, Honolulu
1865
Photograph by Camille Silvy, LondonStudio at 38 Porcester TerraceLondonCarte-de-visite depicting a full-length portrait of Emma Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke, then Queen Dowager of the Kingdom of Hawaii. She is standing and faces three-quarters left. Her hands are together in front of her, left hand over right. She is wearing a Western style dress, with a light coloured headdress and a veil. On the left of the photograph stands a table with books on it. A curtain is hanging behind the table. Provenance: From an album of ‘Royal Portraits’ compiled by Queen Victoria Royal Collection Trust
1866
Emma Gardener collection (?) dated 1865, however Queen Emma did not arrive in New York until 1866After her European tour, Queen Emma arrived in New York in August of 1866. This image is on paper produced by Edward and Henry T. Anthony & Co
After her European tour, Queen Emma arrived in New York in August of 1866. This image was published by Edward and Henry T. Anthony & CoIdentified as a Henry L. Chase image.Carte de Visite by Bradley and Rutholfson, San Francisco, October 1866. This is the image most commonly mis-identified as Mary Ellen Pleasant, due to it being used by Helen Holdredge in her book on Mrs. Pleasant.Carte de visite of Queen Emma which has been altered and identified as Mary Ellen Pleasant.What I think is especially charming about how she signed this carte de visite: “On sea,” which is how we would say it in Hawaiian. She then corrected it to “at sea,” the English phrasing.USS Vanderbilt
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Although this image is sometimes identified as the wedding of ʻEmalani and Liholiho, Kamehameha IV, it is not. The image is a montage of several members of the Hawaiian royalty based on their photos. While many of their lifetimes did overlap, this is not an accurate representation of a specific moment in time. The image of ʻEmalani is based on a photo of her wearing widow’s weeds, therefore the image of her is post-1863, the year her husband died. In it, she is wearing the same gown as in the carte de visite below. The images must, therefore, be at least a year prior to 1870.
1871
1871 by Henry L. Chase https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/item/ark:70111/1z8N
1880
ʻEmalani was a renowned horsewoman. In this image she is wearing an English-style riding habit accented in the inimitable Hawaiian style. 1880 https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/item/ark:70111/1Dw0This stately image was made by Andreas Avelino Montano, a Colombian from California. He came to Hawaii and was active from 1876 to 1883 as a photographer and portrait painters for Queen Emma and other fashionable aliis. He had a skill for portraying Hawaiian women. His studio at 87 Fort Street in Honolulu became known as Hale Paʻikiʻi (photographer house). He tutored the painter Charles Furneaux. He married Mary Jane Fayerweather, a quarter Hawaiian and three quarter Caucasian woman, sister of Julia Fayerweather Afong, and widow of Benoni R. Davidson. Although she was five years his senior they had four children: Emma, Rose, Maggie and Harry. He later retired photography and became a rancher.1883
