The Museum Collection Portfolio (Original Period Artifacts)

This curated collection features six authentic, original historical documents, uniquely enhanced for exhibition display and educational analysis:

The occasion of the 85th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor is the ideal opportunity to take a fresh and wider ranging view of events leading up to World War II and the role played by each nation in an exhibition that can be understood and appreciated not only by the generation that survived the war but its children, grand-children and great-grandchildren alive today.

Exhibit curator - Bryant Neal - is a map historian who first became interested in the Japanese side of the narrative two decades ago when he began to assemble maps, photos, artifacts and other materials from the Japanese perspective that were either ignored or overlooked by others.

As time progressed and his knowledge grew, he began to exhibit some of his holdings at his gallery & shop on the island of Maui, Hawaii. He was astonished at the response he received from viewers. Many visitors including Americans, Americans of Japanese ancestry and natives of Japan visiting Hawaii as tourists said that these were things they had never seen before, never been taught in school and to an even greater extent never even realized existed.

We envision an exhibit that is both real and virtual and sparks an international dialog about the past, present and future.

It is our goal to match artifacts with appropriate museums to be used as tools to help unfold the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.   The materials are available on loan and purchase.   The curated “Museum” collection features a portfolio of 6 original artifacts available for purchase that support a timeline from design to execution of this iconic event.      

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Special Museum Collection Acquisition & Educational Offer

The Road to Pearl Harbor: Original Cartographic Artifacts of the Pacific War

In commemoration of the upcoming 85th Observation of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, The Story of Hawaii Museum is offering an exclusive institutional acquisition package of rare, original period artifacts.

Every Japanese-language document in this collection has been fully and professionally translated into English, maintaining absolute historical accuracy while making them immediately accessible as primary-source teaching tools for your visitors, curators, and students.

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1934 Map of East Asia Pacific (The Dies Committee Artifact)

  • Authentic pre-war original map. Fully translated.

  • Educational Focus: Pre-war Japanese naval positioning, trade routes, and early Pacific ambitions. Includes an exclusive companion archive of original press photos of Rep. Martin Dies Jr. presenting the map as a smoking gun in his address to Congress.

$200.00
1937 Illustration of the Recent East Asia State of Affairs Map

  • Artifact Status: Authentic original pictorial map. Fully translated.

  • Educational Focus: The escalating Second Sino-Japanese War and regional propaganda shifts. Japan lays the foundation and justification for disputes with Russia and China.

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$130.00
1942 Historic Photographic Record of Complete Destruction of Entire American Pacific Fleet

  • Authentic wartime original document. Fully translated.

  • Educational Focus: Eight images featuring the actual tactical bombing sequence captured directly from Japanese planes during the attack, providing an unparalleled, timeline-based view of the strike.

 

$110.00
1942 Pearl Harbor Bombing Print (Matsunosuke Furushima / "Matsumoto")

  • Authentic wartime original propaganda print

  • Educational Focus: Dramatic Japanese home front visual documentation and artistic rendering of the "Great Naval Battle of Hawaii” . Painting inspired from the attack photos.

$110.00
1942 Hammond War Map

Original 1942 American-published folding map.

  • Educational Focus: Domestic American public perspective and how the home front tracked active Pacific theaters.  One of the most detailed pacific centric maps of the war era.  Press photo shows the map at the Honolulu Conference.  

$110.00
1943 Standard Greater East Asia Partial Map: Hawaiian Archipelago

  • Authentic wartime Japanese-produced original map of Hawaii .

  • Educational Focus: The Japanese Empire's cartographic projection of its expanded borders and strategic intelligence gathering.  A very detailed map of Hawaii with detailed insets of Pearl Harbor and Honolulu harbor.

$110.00

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