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TITLE Sugar cane mill with tents and houses in front DESCRIPTION Sugar cane mill with tents and houses in front Original caption: "C. Brewer's Honolulu plantation mill (1898-1946) located at 'Aiea, O'ahu, ca. 1902. Workers' cottages and a long house surround a Japanese temple in the foreground, with the mill and cane fields in the background. This area has also been referred to as Aiea or Halawa Plantation." A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawai'i CONTEXT "Laborers received, as part of their contract, free housing, medical care, and cooking fuel from the plantations. The quality of housing varied enormously, from the sprawling estates of the managers...down to quarters that ranged from bad to intolerable for early contract laborers....By the turn of the century, many plantations built clusters of dwellings called camps, with perhaps five or six "longhouses," approximately 18 by 30 feet and divided into a dozen rooms." A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawai'i CREDIT Courtesy of Bishop Museum DATE ca. 1902 |
