More than 100 books, pamphlets and magazines have been donated to the Historical Committee for its archives. The books cover topics of interest to members, including subjects relating to the Club, Waikiki, the beachboys, surfing and other Club sports, members, and Hawaiiana. The following books are in the Club’s collection. Most of the books are available for sale at bookstores or are in Hawaii’s public libraries. Members wishing to view any of these books should make an appointment with the Historical Committee for access.
Author | Title | Description | Type | Date |
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Allen, Gwenfread | Iolani Palace and Its Kings and Queens | A pictorial narrative of the Alii | Book | 1978 |
Aloha Airlines | The Spirit of Aloha | Articles on the beachboys and beaches of Hawaii | Magazine | 2005 |
Armitage, Y.N.; Del Piano, B.D.; Thoene, C.K. | Ei Nei, Do You Remembah | Remembrance of Old Hawaii | Book | 1983 |
Baker, Ray Jerome | Hawaiian Yesterdays | Historical photos by Jerome Baker | Book | 1982 |
Brampton, Robin | City Tattersalls Club -- Sydney | A Century of Achievement | Book | 1995 |
Brennan, Joseph L. | Duke of Hawaii | Biography of Duke Kahanamoku | Book | 1994 |
Brennan, Joseph L. | Duke: The Father of Surfing | The story of Duke Kahanamoku | Book | 1968 |
Brown, DeSoto | Surfing | Historic images from Bishop Museum | Book | 2006 |
Brown, DeSoto | Surfing: Historic Photos from Bishop Museum | Historic photos and narratives about surfing | Book | 2006 |
Bushnell, O. A., Feher, Joseph, Joesting, Ed | Hawaii, A Pictorial History | Book | 1969 | |
Caldwell, Peter | Molokai-Oahu Through the Years | A history of the Molokai Outrigger Canoe Race | Book | 2006 |
Cameron, Roy; Kanahele, George; Hastert, M. | Ke Kuma: Queen's Medical Center, 1859-1990 | Historical account of Queen's Medical Center | Book | 1989 |
Clark, John R. K. | The Beaches of Oahu | Complete description of Oahu's beaches | Book | 1977 |
Clark, John R. K. | Hawaiian Surfing | Book | 2011 | |
Club Waikiki | Club Waikiki -- 25th Anniversary | Photos and articles on club; text in spanish | Book | 1967 |
Coleman, Stuart Holmes | Eddie Would Go | The story of Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian Hero | Book | 2002 |
Couvillon, Art | Karch Kiraly | Biography of an outstanding beach volleyball player | Book | 2008 |
Couvillon, Art | The Manhattan Beach Open | The Wimbleton of beach volleyball | Book | 2006 |
Couvillon, Art | Beach Volleyball Men's & Women's Review 2005 | 2 volumes about beach vollelyball in 2005 | Book | 2006 |
Couvillon, Art | Sands of Time Vol. 1 1895-1969 | The history of beach volleyball | Book | 2002 |
Couvillon, Art | Sands of Time, Vol. II 1970-1989 | The history of beach volleyball 1970-1989 | Book | 2003 |
Couvillon, Art | Sands of Time, Vol. III 1990-2004 | The history of beach volleyball 1990-2004 | Book | 2004 |
Couvillon, Art | Beach Volleyball Review 2004 | Review of the 2004 beach volleyball season | Book | 2005 |
Christie, Agatha | The Grand Tour | Letters & photos from a trip around the British Empire & Hawaii in 1922, edited by her grandson Mathew Prichard | Book | 2012 |
Daly, N. T. | One Hundred Years of Australian Sport | A history of the New South Wales Sports Club | Book | 1996 |
Daws, Gavan; Goodman R. B.; Sheehan, Ed | The Hawaiians | A pictorial narrative of Hawaii | Book | 1970 |
Daws, Gavan | Hawaii, The Islands of Life, 7th edition | Outstanding photos at various locations | Book | 1988 |
Daws, Gavan | Hawaii 1959-1989 | Brief history of Hawaii in the time era | Book | 1989 |
Davis, David | Waterman | Book | 2015 | |
De La Vega, Timothy Tovar | Images of American: Surfing in Hawaii 1778-1930 | Photos of surfers, including Duke Kahanamoku | Book | |
Del Piano, Barbara | Outrigger Canoe Club: First Hundred Years 1908-2008 | History of the Outrigger Canoe Club | Book | 2007 |
Del Piano, Barbara | Emma, Beloved Queen of Hawaii | Biography of Queen Emma Rooke | Book | 2007 |
Del Piano, Barbara | Na Lani Kaumaka (Daughters of Hawaii) | A century of Hawaii | Book | 2005 |
Del Piano, Barbara | Lei Ana Ika Verses | Folk songs of Hawaii during World War II | Book | 2008 |
Del Piano, Barbara | The Class of 1945 | Roosevelt High School | Book | 2015 |
Descoteaux, Joss | Paddling in Hawaii | A photo essay of paddling photos throughout Hawaii | Book | 2003 |
Ebert, Samuel H. | Spoken Hawaiian | Hawaiian langugage textbook | Book | 1970 |
Elbert, S. H.; Pukui, Mary K. | Hawaiian-English Dictionary | Book | 1957 | |
Eyre, David W.; Taylor, Frank, J.; Welty, Earl M. | From Land and Sea | The story of Castle & Cooke of Hawaii | Book | 1976 |
Finney, Ben; Houston, James D. | Surfing: A History of the Ancient Hawaiian Sport | Surfing through the ages | Book | 1996 |
Forbes, Walter | No Lives Lost: 1908-1983 | Narrative on SLSAs of Australia | Book | 1992 |
Frankenstein, Alfred; Carlson, Norman | Angels Over the Altar | Christian folk art in Hawaii & South Seas | Book | 1961 |
Gabbard, Andrea | Girl in the Curl: A Century of Women in Surfing | Women surfing at Makaha and North Shore Oahu | Book | 2000 |
Gault-Williams, Malcolm | Alexander Hume Ford | Biography | Book | 2008 |
Gould, Gary G.; Trepte, Gene | San Diego Yacht Club: A History 1886-2000 | 114th Anniversary of the yacht club | Book | 2000 |
Grant, Glen; Hymer, Bennet; Bishop Museum | Hawaii Looking Back | An illustrated history of the islands | Book | 2000 |
Griffin, Marjie Gates | If Tables Could Talk | The Columbia Club's centennial 1889-1989 | Book | 1988 |
Grigg, Dr. Richard W. | Archipelago | Book | 2012 | |
Hall, Sandra K.; Ambrose, Greg | Memories of Duke, The Legend Comes to Live | A biography | Book | 1995 |
Hawaiian Canoe Racing Association | Hawaii State Championship Canoe Regatta | Souvenir program | Magazine | 1963 |
Hibbard, Don; Franzen, David | View from Diamond Head | Pictorial narrative of the Waikiki area | Book | 1986 |
Hemmings, Fred Jr. | The Soul of Surfing is Hawaiian | Story of surfing from author's point of view. | Book | 1997 |
Holmes, Tommy | Hawaiian Canoe, 1st Edition | Description of Hawaiian canoes | Book | 1981 |
Holmes, Tommy | Hawaiian Canoe, 2nd Edition | Description of Hawaiian canoes | Book | 1993 |
Honolulu Magazine | Beachboys of Old Waikiki | Waikiki beachboys of the 1950s | Magazine | 1982 |
Hope, Dale | The Aloha Shirt | Documentation of the aloha shirt industry | Book | 2000 |
Houston, Victor S. K. | Hawaiian Flag | Description of the Hawaiian flag | Pamphlet | No date |
Jackson, Frances, et al. | Hawaiian Journal of History, Vol. 12 | Hawaiian History | Magazine | 1978 |
Jackson, Frances; et al | Hawaiian Journal of History Vol. 13 | Hawaiian History | Magazine | 1979 |
Jackson, Frances; et al | Hawaiian Journal of History, Vol. 14 | Hawaiian History | Magazine | 1980 |
Jarrett, Phil | That Summer at Boomerang | Book | 2014 | |
Jarvis, Fred G; Considine, Bob | New York Athletic Club--First Hundred Years | NYAC history | Book | 1969 |
Jarvis, Fred G. | New York Athletic Club--Steadfast & Changing | NYAC from 1968-1993 | Book | 1993 |
Joesting, Edward | Hawaii, an Uncommon History | Hawaii History | Book | 1972 |
Judd, Henry P. | Hawaiian Language | Hawaiian langugage textbook | Book | 1939 |
Judd, Lawrence M. | Lawrence M. Judd & Hawaii | As told to Hugh W. Lytle | Book | 1971 |
Judd, Walter F. | Let Us Go | A narrative of Kamehameha II 1819-1824 | Book | 1976 |
Kanahele, George S. | Restoring Hawaiianess to Waikiki | Goals & objectives in restoring Hawaiianess | Book | 1994 |
Kane, Herb Kawainui | Voyage: The Discovery of Hawaii | A pictorial narrative | Book | 1976 |
Korn, Alfons; Pukui, Mary E. | Echo of Our Song | Chants and poems of the Hawaiians | Book | 1973 |
Liliuokalani | Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen | Liliuokalani's history of Hawaii | Book | 1964 |
Longhurst, Robert | Our Club--Our Story | A history of Mooloolaba Surf Lifesaving Club 1922-1997 | Book | 1997 |
Longhurst, Robert | Friendship is Life | History of Tattersall's Club, Brisbane | Book | 1993 |
Lueras, Leonard | Surfing, the Ultimate Pleasure | Pictorial narrative of surfing | Book | 1984 |
Lynch, Gary; Alder, Tom | Tom Blake Surfing 1922-1932 | Narrative and many photos on surfing in Hawaii | Book | 1999 |
Lynch, Gary: Gault-William, Malcolm | Tom Blake: Uncommon Journey of a Pioneer Waterman | Narrative and photos of Blake in Hawaii and elsewhere | Book | 2001 |
Mack, Robert | House & Gardens Magazine | OCC photo on inside of front cover | Magazine | 1936 |
MacKinnon, Simpson; Brizdle, John | Streetcar Days in Honolulu | "Breezing through Paradise" about streetcars | Book | 2000 |
McDermott, John W. | The Kelleys of the Outrigger | A hotel dynasty in Hawaii | Book | 1990 |
McGrath, Mary Philpotts; Philpotts, Kaui | Hawaii: A Sense of Place | Various interior decoration photos | Book | 2005 |
Molnar, Anton | Gefrodinspex Collector | |||
Moser, Patrick | Pacific Passges | Book | 2008 | |
Mrantz, Maxine | Poet in Paradise | Robert Louis Stevenson overview of 5 months in 1889 & 1893 | Pamphlet | 1977 |
Mullins, Joseph G. | Hawaiian Journey | A pictorial narrative | Book | 1978 |
Pioneer Savings & Loan | Aloha From Honolulu | Pamplet | 1919 | |
Smith, Loren A. | University Club of Washington, D.C. 1904-2004 | One hundred years of history of the club. | Book | 2004 |
Noble, Valerie | Hawaiian Prophet: Alexander Hume Ford | A biography | Book | 1980 |
Pacini, John | Windows on Collins Street | A history of the Athenaeum Club, Melbourne, VIC, Australia | Book | 1991 |
Paiva, Derek | Hawaii Business Magazine | Article about Robert T. Guard Vietnam service | Magazine | 1999 |
Paradise of the Pacific | Paradise of the Pacific | Articles on Hawaii & Pacific | Magazine | July 1946 |
Paradise of the Pacific | Paradise of the Pacific | Articles on Hawaii & Pacific | Magazine | Aug 1946 |
Paradise of the Pacific | Paradise of the Pacific | Articles on Hawaii & Pacific | Magazine | Sept 1946 |
Paradise of the Pacific | Paradise of the Pacific | Articles on Hawaii & Pacific | Magazine | Nov 1946 |
Paradise of the Pacific | Paradise of the Pacific | Articles on Hawaii & Pacific | Magazine | Feb 1947 |
Paradise of the Pacific | Paradise of the Pacific | Articles on Hawaii & Pacific | Magazine | July 1947 |
Paradise of the Pacific | Paradise of the Pacific | Articles on Hawaii & Pacific | Magazine | Dec 1947 |
Paradise of the Pacific | Paradise of the Pacific | Articles on Hawaii & Pacific | Magazine | Apr 1950 |
Paradise of the Pacific | Paradise of the Pacific | Articles on Hawaii & Pacific | Magazine | May 1952 |
Paradise of the Pacific | Paradise of the Pacific | Articles on Hawaii & Pacific | Magazine | Aug 1954 |
Paradise of the Pacific | Paradise of the Pacific | Articles on Hawaii & Pacific | Magazine | Dec 1957 |
Perry, Tay | Paddling - Hoena | Paddling Canoes | Book | 2006 |
Pomroy, Eva | Book of Prayers | Prayers for various club functions | Book | 1975 |
Rodriggs, Lawrence R. | We Remember Pearl Harbor | 50 oral histories about World War II | Book | 1991 |
Roy, Reginald H. | Vancouver Club: First Century 1889-1989 | History of the Vancouver Club | Book | 1989 |
Russell, J. Ward | Film & Video Journal | Storyboard and article on Damiel & Kalaupapa | Magazine | 1998 |
Schofield, Phillip | Roots of British Surfing | Book | ||
Scott, Edward B. | Saga of the Sandwich Islands Vol. 1 | A visual narrative of Hawaii | Book | 1968 |
Sheehan, Ed | Kahala, the Hotel That Could Only Happen Once | A pictorial narrative of the hotel | Book | 1990 |
Simpich, Frederick Jr. | Dynasty in the Pacific | A history of AMFAC | Book | 1974 |
Spoehr, Hardy | Upoho Uka Nui O Kekokia | Scotland's Great Highland Bagpipes | Book | 2004 |
Steiner, Keith | Hawaii's Earlier Territorial Days | Illustrations of post cards about the islands | Book | 2001 |
Stevenson, Robert Louis | Travels in Hawaii | Robert Louis Stevenson's travels in Hawaii | Book | 1973 |
Stone, Scott C.S. | Joyful Heart | The life and music of R. Alexander Anderson | Book | 2003 |
Surf Safari | Long Board Magazine | Various articles on surfing | Magazine | 1996 |
Swanson, Sandra J. | St. Francis Yacht Club | 75th anniversary book | Book | 2002 |
Tsutsumi, Cheryl Chee | Hawaii's Gathering Place | Photos of the Island of Oahu | Book | 2005 |
Timmons, Grady | The Waikiki Beach Boy | A narrative of the life and lives of Waikiki Beach Boys | Book | 1989 |
Todaro, Tony | Golden Years of Hawaiian Entertainment | Entertainment in Hawaii from 1874-1974 | Book | 1974 |
Tregaskis, Moana | Hawaii | Fodor's Compass of American, Random House Travel Guide | Book | 1998 |
Tabla Hawaiian | Tabla Hawaiian | Text in Spanish | Magazine | 1969 |
Tabla Hawaiian | Tabla Hawaiian | Magazine on surfing from Latin America | Magazine | 1971 |
Stenberg, Ernest W. Sr. | Forecasts | Bound copies of OCC magazine September 1941-December 1958 | Magazine | 1941-1958 |
United Church of Christ, Hawaii Conference | Na Himeni - Haipule Hawaii | Hymns of Hawaii | Book | 1972 |
Verge, Arthur C. | California History | Article on George Freeth, Hawaii/California surfer/lifesaver | Magazine | 2001 |
Verge, Arthur C. | California History | George Freeth, King of Surfers and hero | Magazine | 2001 |
Walton, Frank E. | Once They Were Eagles: The Black Sheep Squadron | World War II Marine righter squadron in Pacific Area | Book | 1986 |
West, Rodney T. | Honolulu Prepares for Japan's Attack | The Oahu Civilian Disaster Preparedness Programs | Book | 1992 |
White, Kai; Kraus, Jim | Waikiki: Images of America | Information about Waikiki | Book | 2007 |
Williams, David Ricardo | Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | A history of the Terminal City Club, Vancouver, B.C. | Book | 1992 |
Yost, Harold H. | The Outrigger | OCC History from 1908-1971 | Book | 1971 |
Zambucka, Kristin | Princess Kaiulani | The Last Hope of Hawaii's Monarchy | Book | 1982 |