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Surfers Annual Greg Noll

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 Eddie Aikau Cover

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 Volume 73 No.7 1961

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,...

Miki Dora Hawaii

“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...

Rabbit Kekai Godfather of Malibu

Featured images: Honolulu Star Advertiser + Clarence Maki Next to Duke Kahanamoku, no name is as synonymous with the Waikiki Beach Boy mystique as Albert...

International Surfing Championships 1962 Contest Program

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...

Ed Searfoss Country Surfboards Haleiwa Hawaii

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...

San Francisco Chronicle December 4 1921

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...

World Outlook Magazine Surfing Cover May 1920-2

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...

Chicago Ledger the Surf Riders August 1928

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...

Judge Magazine March 1937 Surfing Cover

Surf Museum Hawaii (SMH) has added another rare piece to our growing ephemera collection. This one is unlike the usual suspect travel magazines of the...

Who Invented Surfing

Author: Marcus M | SMH Chief Curator Butler, 1858 (source) Around 315,000 BC, Thag and Zorak, two of the first homo-sapiens, were lounging around their...

Belly Board - Paipo

1930s “Paipo board” (image: Smithsonian) Author: Marcus M | SMH Chief Curator Laguna Beach CA’s South Coast Highway is loaded with all sorts of eclectic...

Vintage Travel Magazine Surfer Surfing June 1939

Surf Museum Hawaii (SMH) is building up its ephemera collection. Some of the printed antiquities will be a part of the permanent exhibit, and others...

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