Series 3 - Box 11 Hawaii Photographs

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 11 --> Photographs --> 141 - 176. Black and white photographs. Photograph of a family, possibly 3 generations, standing outside a building with a slanted roof, difficult to tell if it is their home. Photograph taken from a height looking down on a large group of people (this corresponds to another photograph where O'Shaughnessy is standing on a picnic bench orating), no date or other details given; photograph of a Union Oil Tanker, with Lyman Stewart, the co-founder of the company's name, written on the side, (13 Oct 1922); photograph of the four O'Shaughnessy children as teenagers/young adults, smiling; photograph of O'Shaughnessy orating from on top of a bench (described earlier); photograph of M M O'Shaughnessy surrounded by women and children (some but not all are his daughters), and their Westie, undated; photographs taken at the family home in Loughill during O'Shaughnessy's visit in 1920; photographs taken in London as part of the same trip. These are copies of photographs described earlier in the collection; photograph of a dam taken in 1911; family photographs, the daughters with their dogs mostly; reprint of a studio photograph of a middle aged couple, taken in Limerick (possibly O'Shaughnessy's brother and wife, Bernadette might know).

Four mounted photographs taken in Hawaii (177-180). All are taken at the Koolau Ditch, Keanae, Maui. (1903-4). One shows a group of workers at the Kolea Stream between 2 tunnels, one shows the tunnels, one shows the workmen preparing paving for cement pointing, and one shows the workers and their families sitting down in some woodlands.

Digital File see p135 --> archive --> OCR --> Box 11 --> Photographs -->182-199 (excluding 191). Photograph of a group of children standing outside a barn, photograph of Francis O'Shaughnessy as a young man, wearing a suit, mostly family photographs. One image of two ladies having tea. A caption at the back describes it "Cousin May and Mrs Watson having tea with May's grandmother's dishes", undated. Full length portrait of Francis O'Shaughnessy as a teenager/young adult. Another copy of a group photograph taken in Mill Valley, names of the group on the back, the photograph has been described earlier.

One photograph in need of conservation, has been completely overtaken by silvering, impossible to tell what the subject is.

The material is accessible to all bone fide researchers, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at the James Hardiman Library.
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