View of Manana Island, “Rabbit Island,” off Oahu, 1940
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Panoramic photograph taken from an elevated dune or hillside overlook on the windward coast of Oahu, Hawaii, looking out across a sandy beach toward Rabbit Island (Manana Island) and a smaller adjacent islet, with several beachgoers visible on the sand below. 1940.
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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. Locals named it Rabbit Island for two main reasons: its shape resembles a rabbit’s head, and a plantation owner named John Adams Cummins (also recorded as John Cummins) released a colony of rabbits there in the 1880s.