Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a plaque in memory of James Cook's circumnavigation of the globe, in Hawaii, [s.d.]. The plaque reads: "In memory of the great circumnavigator, Captain James Cook, R N., who discovered these islands on the 18th of January, A.D. 1778 and fell near this spot n the 14th of February, A.D. 1779. This monument was erected in November A.D. 1874 by some of his fellow countrymen".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w 13 x 17 cm. photographic prints photographs
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