New Year’s Eve Celebration at the Army and Navy YMCA, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 1940 — Full Company on Stage
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A wide view of the New Year’s Eve hula show at the Army and Navy YMCA, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 1940, showing four dancers in sequined skirts performing with arms raised beside a standing microphone, backed by a full band including upright bass, guitar, and additional musicians seated along the stage.
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This photograph is from the personal collection of photographs taken by CPL William Stinson Brown while stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii before the infamous attack of 7 December 1941. CPL Brown was there during the attack. These unique photographs were donated to the COGG Honor Archive for public use of students, writers and researchers of history. The generous donation was from CPL William S Brown’s, son, William Stinson “Bill” Brown Jr. and his loving granddaughter Caitlin Brown Clancy. This photograph is part of a larger set of at least eight photographs (with companion images “Sequined Hula Revue,” “Solo Dancer and Orchestra,” “Ti-Leaf Skirt Dancers,” “Seated Trio,” “Dancer with Raised Arm,” “Solo Dancer with Flower Lei,” and “Solo Dancer, Second Frame”) all taken at the same New Year’s Eve hula show at the Army and Navy YMCA.