SMF has added yet another near-century old magazine to our world class collection of lifestyle ephemera featuring surfing on the cover, with Hawaii as the...
Ever since it was unveiled that surf-pop-culture artist Rick Griffin’s MURPHY was of Hawaiian ancestry, Surf Museum Hawaii (SMH) has worked tirelessly to curate the...
Perform a Google search for “who invented the thruster surfboard” or “who invented the tri-fin surfboard”. Never mind, we’ll do it for you: In each...
We don’t use the “holy grail” expression as much as other vintage surf collectors and curators do, but when it comes to early 1900s lifestyle...
New to the SMH surfing ephemera collection, is this highly sought after Surfers Annual, published by Greg Noll in 1960 with illustrations by Rick Griffin....
Natural History magazine was founded at the turn of the 20th century (1900) by the American Museum of Natural History in New York as The American...
Paradise of the Pacific Hawaii was a periodical/magazine promoting tourism and investment in Hawaii. The last king and penultimate monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, King Kalakaua,...
“Odi profanum vulgus et arceo” The above quote was inscribed by Miki Dora on a personal board that was crafted for him in his twilight...
Featured images: Honolulu Star Advertiser + Clarence Maki Next to Duke Kahanamoku, no name is as synonymous with the Waikiki Beach Boy mystique as Albert...
- 3 February 2025
Surf Museum Hawaii has acquired an excellent condition contest program for the 9th annual International Surfing Championships at Makaha Beach, circa 1962. The annual competition...
Author: Marcus M | SMH Chief Curator One of the many missions of Surf Museum Hawaii (SMH) is to shine a spotlight on the under-appreciated...
The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865. The newspaper served the Bay Area, which is where Hawaiian Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole and his brothers...
- 13 January 2025
World Outlook magazine was created and published by Willard Price, a Methodist leader, writer, and editor who was born in 1887. Price had a penchant...
- 12 January 2025
Sometimes we’re able to secure ephemera from collectors who have taken great care to preserve the delicate pages and ink that recorded a moment in...
