Two carte de visite photographs of Queen Emma of Hawaii on original printed mounts. One of her standing, and the other, a half-length sitting portrait. Publisher's imprint on verso

• 1866

• Bradley & Rulofson

• Turner, Steve (Art dealer)

Emma Kalanikaumaka'amano Kaleleonālani Na'ea Rooke (January 2, 1836 - April 25, 1885) was queen of Hawaii as the wife of King Kamehameha IV from 1856 to his death in 1863

Portraits of Queen Emma were mistakenly used at some point to identify Mary Ellen Pleasant, a 19th century African American businesswoman in San Francisco, and sometimes dubbed "The Mother of Civil Rights in California". After she and two other black women were ejected from a city streetcar in 1866, Pleasant filed two lawsuits which led to the desegregation of the San Francisco's public conveyances. Queen Emma was in San Francisco in 1866, and at one point Pleasant had claimed to be part Hawaiian, but it is unknown exactly how the misappellation started

2 photographs : black and white on card mount ; mount 102 x 62 mm (carte de visite format)

still image

• Hawaii

• Emma, Queen, consort of Kamehameha IV, King of the Hawaiian Islands, 1836-1885

• Photographs
• Portraits
• Queens

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Mms: 991004641459706535

San Francisco :, Bradley & Rulofson

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2024-07-19