allowed him to take portraits not only of the native inhabitants, which proved invaluable to ethnic studies, but also of Chinese and Portuguese workers and a small colony of Scandinavians. The photographs of his wife and seven children show how Danish traditions were maintained, for example in the children's clothing, while his photographs of the mills document the industrial evolution of the islands. Some of these were presented at the Hawaiian Government Exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1889, demonstrating not only the progress of the plant, but also the industrial transformation of Hawaii. In January 1889, Hedemann was one of the founding members and the first president of the Hawaiian Camera Club, which brought amateur photographers from Honolulu together with those he had met during his travels around the islands. The club gave Hedemann the opportunity to follow and experiment with the latest techniques such as magnesium powder flash photography and photographic enlargements as well as the use of the so-called magic lantern. In 1892, when he first returned to Denmark, Hedemann took his lantern slide projector with him in order to show his new home to his family and friends. Hedemann died in Honolulu in 1932 leaving a collection of photographs which provide a record not only of his close-knit family and his faith in the industrial age but also of the islands themselves at the end of the 19th century. See also Photography in Denmark References Further reading Lynn Ann Davis with Nelson Foster (1988) A photographer in the kingdom : Christian J. Hedemann's early images of Hawai'i (Honolulu, Hawaii: Bishop Museum Press) and (paperback) Related reading Dorrance, William H.; Morgan, Francis (2000) Sugar Islands: The 165-Year Story of Sugar in Hawaiʻi (Honolulu, HI: Mutual Publishing) Takaki, Ronald T. (1983) Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920 (University of Hawaii Press) 19th-century Danish photographers American portrait photographers American people of Danish descent 1852 births 1932 deaths Danish emigrants to the Hawaiian Kingdom Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog American mechanical engineers American industrialists