This rare and extraordinary 1901 map of the island of Hawaii was prepared for the 1906  Report of the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii to the Secretary of the Interior.  Though the cartographic work that produced this map was started in 1878, during the Hawaiian Monarchy, the map itself, and the report that contained it, was issued following the U.S. Government’s  1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Republic.  The Report was an attempt to assess and examine the newly created Hawaiian Territory’s potential for proper administration and development.   Consequently the map focuses on Public Lands, Homestead Settlement Tracts, Grazing Lands, Pineapple Lands, Sugar Plantations, Forest Reserves, Forest Lands, Wet Lands, etc.  It also features both practical and topographic details for use in administering the region.  The governor at this time was George R. Carter.  When it was made, this was among the most detailed and thorough maps of Hawaii ever made.  The primary triangulation for this map was accomplished by W.D. Alexander, C.J. Lyons, J.S. Emerson, J.M. Lydgate and E.D. Baldwin.   The boundaries and topography were the collective work of W.D. Alexander, C.J. Lyons, J.S. Emerson, J.M. Lydgate, J.F. Brown, E.D. Baldwin, F.S. Lyman, J.M. Alexander, S.M. Kanakanui and A.B. Loebenstein.  The map itself was drawn by John M. Donn.
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