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Royal Family Portrait

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Gathered here are Kamehameha III (center) and his wife, Queen Kalama (left); Kamehameha IV (left rear), Kamehameha V (right rear) and their sister, Victoria Kamamalu (right). This is a daguerreotype, the first practical way to capture images through a photographic process. The process had been invented in France 14 years earlier.

Hugo Stangenwald
The Kamehameha Royal Family
ca. 1853
Daguerreotype
Gift: Curtis P. Iaukea, 1922.

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