The Kahn collection contains a wide assortment of government documents. Below are legislative materials related to Hawaiʻi beginning with the 52nd Congressional Session (1893) and continuing through the 81st Congressional Session (1950). Various subjects are covered, including an investigation into the fisheries and fishing laws in Hawaiʻi, the retiring of Hawaiʻi coinage and currency, drafts of treaties, and labor reports. It also includes Queen Liliʻuokalani’s official claim submitted to the U.S. government, protesting the illegal overthrow and demanding her reinstatement as sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.
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Kahn - Legislative Materials by Decade:-
- 52d Cong. 2d Sess. Ex. Doc. No. 45, Relating to Draft of Uncompleted Treaty with Hawaii (1893), 21/11
- 52d Cong. 2d Sess. Ex. Doc. No. 57, Correspondence Between Governments of U.S. and Great Britain Relative to Sandwich Islands (1893), 21/12
- 52d Cong. 2d Sess. Ex. Doc. No. 76, Papers Relating to Annexation of Hawaiian Islands to U.S. (1893), 21/13
- Recognition of the Provisional Government by the Diplomatic and Consular Representatives Resident at Honolulu (1893), 32/41
- Chief of Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department, Commerce of the United States with the Hawaiian Islands from 1871 to 1892 (1893), 19/106
- 53d Cong. 2d Sess. Ex. Doc. No. 70, Transmitting Certain Further Information Relating to the Hawaiian Islands (1894), 21/19
- 55th Cong. 2d Sess. Report No. 681, Annexation of Hawaii (1898), 21/26
- 55th Cong. 2d Sess. Doc. No. 109, Constitutions of Hawaii (1898), 21/29
- 55th Cong. 2d Sess. Doc. No. 188, Views of Commodore George W. Melville as to Strategic Value of . . . Hawaii (1898), 21/28
- 55th Cong. 3d Sess. Doc. No. 151, Property of the Hawaiian Government Transferred to the United States (1898), 21/32
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- 56th Cong. 1st Sess. Doc. No. 237, Decrees of the Supreme Court of Hawaii (1899), 21/33
- 56th Cong. 1st Sess. Rep. No. 305, Government for the Territory of Hawaii (1900), 21/34
- 56th Cong. 1st Sess. Rep. No. 1305, Government of Hawaiian Islands (1900), 21/35
- 56th Cong. 2d Sess. Doc. No. 64, Estimate of Appropriation, Territory of Hawaii (1900), 21/37
- 56th Cong. 2d Sess. Doc. No. 357, Estimate of Appropriation, Territory of Hawaii (1901), 21/39
- 57th Cong. 1st Sess. Doc. No. 249, Investigation of the Fisheries and Fishing Laws of Hawaii (1902), 21/41
- 57th Cong. 1st Sess. Doc. No. 169, Report of the Commissioner of Labor on Hawaii - 1901 (1902), 21/42
- 56th Cong. 2d Sess. Rep. No. 2941, Retiring of Hawaiian Coinage and Currency (1901), 21/36
- 57th Cong. 1st Sess. SR No. 260, Hawaiian Investigation Part 2: Testimony Taken Before Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico (1902), 21/43
- 57th Cong. 2d Sess. Doc. No. 181, Report of the Commissioner of Labor on Hawaii - 1902 (1903), 21/48
- 57th Cong. 2d Sess. Doc. No. 206, History of Hawaiian Treaty and Cuban Reciprocity (1903), 21/49
- 59th Cong. 1st Sess. Doc. No. 66, Claim of Liliuokalani (1905), 21/51
- 59th Cong.1st Sess. Doc. No. 580, Third Report of the Commissioner of Labor on Hawaii - 1905 (1906), 21/50