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Dr. Gerrit P. Judd with Prince Lot Kamehameha (later Kamehameha V) and Prince Alexander Liholiho
(later Kamehameha IV) on a diplomatic mission to the United States in 1850.
Bishop Museum Archives. SP 206872.
Hō Mai ka ʻIke: Reconnecting with
the Judd Family Papers
Bishop Museum, through the support of a $150,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Native Hawaiian Library Services program, recently announced Hō Mai ka ʻIke: Reconnecting with the Judd Family Papers. The two-year project will create online access to a significant archival collection documenting the history of Hawaiʻi.
The Judd Family Papers includes journals, documents, and correspondence written from 1823 to 1903, a period of tremendous cultural and political change in Hawaiʻi. While members of the Judd family such as Gerrit Parmele Judd, M.D., Laura Fish Judd, and Albert Francis Judd Sr. feature prominently, the collection encompasses a wide range of authors including King Kamehameha III, Timoteo Haʻalilio, John Papa ʻĪʻī, Robert Crichton Wyllie, Joseph Nāwahī, and Charles Reed Bishop.
The project will dramatically improve access for all of the Judd Family Papers, with a particular focus on the materials in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language). While the English language materials have been accessible in-person via a finding aid for some time, documents written in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi have never been fully described and so remain very difficult for researchers to navigate. The IMLS grant supports cataloging the entire collection, digitizing the materials in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, and making both the catalog and newly digitized materials freely available online. — Nathanael Smith, Bishop Museum Hō Mai ka ʻIke project manager.
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