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2 VERY RARE ORIGINAL 1915 Antique Historical MUSEUM QUALITY Gelatin Photographs

COMMANDER MAJOR GENERAL WM. H. CARTER HAWAII / MINT CONDITION

2 VERY RARE 1915 MUSEUM QUALITY Antique Historical Gelatin Photographs COMMANDER MAJOR GENERAL WM. H. CARTER HAWAII / <u>TWO (2) VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT Original Antique 1915 MUSEUM QUALITY Gelatin Photographs Of THE FAMOUS MILITARY COMMANDER MAJOR GENERAL WM. H. CARTER HAWAII / COMMANDER OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY HAWAII Standing On The Lawn In Front Of The ARMY AND NAVY BUILDING Greeting All Parties And Patrons, Republicans And Democrats Alike During The Hawaii Governorship Of LUCIUS EUGENE PINKHAM. / TWO (2) VERY RARE ORIGINAL Antique 1913-1915 Black And White Historical Gelatin Photographs Depicting THE FAMOUS COMMANDER MAJOR GENERAL WM. H. CARTER HAWAII (He Is Written About And Documented In Many Historical Books And Records) / BOTH PHOTOGRAPHS EACH Measure 6 Inches Horizontal By 4 Inches Vertical / Two (2) Original Antique 1913-1915 Historical Gelatin Photograph COMMANDER MAJOR GENERAL WM. H. CARTER HAWAII / Black And White Continuous Tone Silver Nitrate Gelatin Photographs Are From A Much Larger Lot Of Historical Photographs And Documents Taken During The Exact Period Of The Hawaii Governorship Of LUCIUS EUGENE PINKHAM (4th Hawaiian Governor 1913-1918). NOTE: These Original Photographs Are Mounted On Old Original Antique Faded Gray/ Black Heavy Scrapbook Paper Stock And Hold A Nice Sepia Tone Iridescent Tonal Quality. / COMMANDER MAJOR GENERAL WM. H. CARTER HAWAII Was Part Of The Exciting Events That Took Place Surrounding HAWAII GOVERNOR LUCIUS EUGENE PINKHAM'S Unique And Controversial Political Appointment. These Will Make Excellent Additions To Your Historical Antique Hawaiian Photographic Military Collections. NOT: These Are NOT Post Cards or Copies. These very rare original antique candid photographs taken at a very important time in the political and military history of Hawaii. / I Found These Years Ago In An Old Estate On Hawaii, Oahu, Kailua. / MINT CONDITION. (Please See My Photographs).

William Giles Harding Carter Major General, United States Army

Born at Nashville, Tennessee, November 19, 1851, he was educated in private and public schools of Nashville and at the Kentucky Military Institute, Frankfort, Kentucky. He served as a mounted messenger in the Civil War, 1864-65; graduated from West Point in 1873. He married Ida Dawley, October 27, 1880.

Appointed Second Lieutenant, 8th United States Infantry, June 13, 1873 and was promoted through the grades to Major General, November 13, 1909. He was awarded the Medal of Honor "for distinguished bravery in action against Apache Indians at Cibicue Creek, Arizona, August 30, 1881. He was also awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in World War I.

He was a student of Army organization and administration, mainly responsible for the technical details of the Army organization, 1901-03; Commanding Officer, 2nd Division, 1913; Hawaiian Department, January 1914-1915; retired by operation of law, November 19, 1915. Recalled to active duty, August 26, 1917. Commanded the Central Department, Chicago, August 1917-February 1918; Author of: Horses, Saddles, and Bridles, 1918; From Yorktown to Santiago With the 6th Cavalry, 1900; Old Army Sketches, 1906; Giles Carter of Virginia, 1909; The American Army, 1915; Life and Services of General Chaffee, 1917.

He died on May 24, 1925 and was buried in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery.

His wife, Ida Hawley Carter (1860-1958) is buried with him. His son, Leigh Hays Carter (1884-1907) is also in the same gravesite. His second son, William Vaulx Carter (1883-January 28, 1971) who graduated from West Point in 1904 and who served as a Brigadier General and Secretary of the Service Schools and his wives, Helen Coryn Carter (May 1, 1888-August 12, 1912) and Margaret Barker Woodbury Carter (September 1, 1896-November 13, 1978) and his son, William Harding Carter II (September 23, 1915-May 17, 1944), who served as a Second Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps Reserve and who was killed-in-action in World War II, are also in the same site.

CARTER, WILLIAM H / MAJ GEN USA RTD / DATE OF DEATH: 05/24/1925 / BURIED AT: SECTION W SITE LOT 443 / ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.

Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, 6th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Cibicue, Arizona, 30 August 1881. Entered service at: New York, N.Y. Birth: Nashville, Tennessee. Date of issue: 17 September 1891.

Citation: Rescued, with the voluntary assistance of 2 soldiers, the wounded from under a heavy fire.

CLICKING HERE TAKES YOU TO THE ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY BURIAL SITE OF MG WM. H. CARTER

Antique 1918 "Letter To An U.S. Army Solder" From HAWAII GOVERNOR "LUCIUS EUGENE PINKHAM" Hand Written Dated 1918

A VERY RARE Original Antique 1918 Hand Written "Letter To An United States Army Solder" From HAWAII GOVERNOR LUCIUS EUGENE PINKHAM Hand Written And Dated 1918 / FOUR (4) Sided Folded Letter Measures 5 3/4 Inches Horizontal By 6 3/4 Inches Vertical When Folded / FULLY OPENED Measures 11 1/2 Inches Horizontal By 6 3/4 Inches Vertical / BLANK BACK / "Letter Of Encouragement To An United States Army Solder" From Hawaii Governor LUCIUS E. PINKHAM On The Governor's Stationary. / MINT CONDITION.

HAND WRITTEN LETTER READS AS FOLLOWS:

EXECUTIVE CHAMBER / LUCIUS E. PINKHAM / GOVERNOR OF HAWAII / TWENTY FIFTH SEPTEMBER / NINETEEN EIGHTEEN (1918)

MY DEAR NICHOLAS,

NOW YOUR ARE LEAVING ME FOR THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY I WISH TO EXPRESS MY DEEP APPRECIATION OF YOUR KINDNESS AND ATTENTION WHICH CAME FROM YOUR THOUGHTFUL AND FAITHFUL NATURE. I SHALL MISS YOU AND YOUR WELFARE WILL BE IN MY MIND. AS TO YOUR PHYSICAL HEALTH. I DOUBT IF YOU ARE AN OVER STRONG MAN. WHILE DOING YOUR FULL DUTY USE YOUR INTELLIGENCE TO AVOID OVER STRAINING OR OVER EXPOSURE. KEEP YOUR FEET DRY, YOUR HEAD COOL, YOUR BOWELS REGULAR AND DON'T WORRY. WHILE IN THE ARMY YOUR FOOD WILL BE WHOLESOME. TRY TO REGULATE YOUR BOWELS BY THE FOOD YOU EAT. IF YOUR BODY GETS CHILLED THROUGH PERSPERATION OR SWEAT REMOVE YOUR CLOTHING AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY AND DRY YOURSELF WITH A ROUGH TOWEL. AVOID IF POSSIBLE CHILLS AND ALSO SLEEPING ON THE GROUND. IT IS THE AIM OF ARMY REGULATIONS TO BUILD UP THE STRENGTH AND HEALTH OF ITS MEN. THE REGULATIONS, FORMS, AND DICIPLINE NOT ONLY HAVE A SOUND MILITARY OBJECT, BUT ARE A BASIS ON WHICH TO BUILD A GENTLEMENLY CHARACTER WHEN BOTH OFFICERS AND MEN OBEY THEM IN THE RIGHT SPIRIT. THE ARMY AND THOSE ASSOCIATED TRY TO PROVIDE AMUSEMENT SO YOUR SOLDERS LIFE MAY NOT BE DULL. I UNDERSTAND YOU YOU WILL BE EASILY SATISFIED. YOUR DANGER OF BEING MISLED WILL COME FROM A DESIRE TO SOLVE IN YOUR OWN MIND THOSE PROBLEMS THAT THE WORLD HAS NEVER SOLVED AND APPARENTLY IS NOT READY TO SOLVE. THE WORLD IS NOT IN AGREEMENT AS TO RELIGION, GOVERNMENT, RIGHTS AND PRIVILIGEGES AND PARTICULARLY AS TO PROPERTY AND AUTHORITY. YOUR MIND IS QUITE SOUND ON SOME OF THOSE POINTS, FOR YOU HAVE SEEN IN RUSSIA THE JEALOUSY OF GREED AND THE JEALOUSY OF LABOR AND WHAT IT HAS LED TO. YOU HAVE RESPECT FOR WOMEN AND AS LONG AS YOU MAINTAIN THAT RESPECT AND ASSOCIATE WOMEN ONLY YOU DO AND CAN RESPECT YOU ARE SAFE FROM TROUBLE IN THAT DIRECTION. THE MOST INTELLIGENT MEN HAVE NOW WON TO LEARN THAN EVER BEFORE SO DO NOT FEEL YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO SHARE THE THINKING AND DOING AS WELL AS THOSE WHO HAVE HAD GREATER PRIVILIGES. KEEP YOUR CONSCIENCE CLEAR AND UNBIASED AND YOU HAVE YOUR BEST GUIDE. KEEP IN TOUCH WITH ME. WITH SINCEREST HOPE FOR YOU.

LUCIUS E. PINKHAM / 4 GOVERNOR OF HAWAII / TO NICHOLAS SHESTOPOL / HONOLULU T.H.

LUCIUS EUGENE PINKHAM / FOURTH GOVERNOR OF HAWAII 1913-1918

CHAMPION OF SOCIAL BETTERMENT

Developed And Expanded The National Guard And The Waikiki Reclaimation Movement And Is Considered To Be The Father Of Modern Waikiki. He Sacrificed Himself To For What He Believed To Be In The Best Interest Of The Public And Gave Himself With The Most Liberal Hand To The Deserving And Needy.

A SHORT HISTORY OF LUCIUS EUGENE PINKHAM FOURTH HAWAII GOVERNOR (1913-1918)

An Elk for Governor: L. E. Pinkham / Imagine you couldn’t vote for Governor. Until statehood, the U.S. President appointed all Hawaii’s governors. Although the President got input from prominent citizens, most folks had NO say.

Many founding Elks were active Republican Party leaders, but Democratic presidents appointed three Elks as Governor. President Woodrow Wilson appointed Lucius Eugene Pinkham (1913-1918) and Charles James McCarthy (1918-1921). President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Joseph Boyd Poindexter (1934-1942).

L. E. Pinkham was initiated at Lodge 616, September 1904. Born in Massachusetts, Pinkham came to Hawaii in 1891, left in 1894, and returned in 1898. He ended his business career in 1903 and was appointed to the Board of Health. Pinkham served during island Bubonic Plague and Cholera epidemics. He championed the Waikiki Reclamation Project (Ala Wai Canal) to control mosquitoes and make farm fields into expensive real estate. He died in 1922 in California.

January 1, 1914, Gov. Pinkham took office with a very short ceremony, congratulations, and acceptance of a rose and fern lei. His office was draped in leis of maile and ilima, as were portraits of King Kamehameha and Princess Kaiulani. At a public reception, 616 member Henry Berger led the Band in a musical program. The Hawaii National Democratic League’s Jan. 2 dinner was ‘dry’. McCarn cocktails (ice water) accompanied the toasts. U.S. District Attorney Jeff McCarn wanted Democrats to back prohibition, despite their nickname as The Bourbons.

In contrast, BPOE 616 threw a big, ‘wet’ party at the Lodge on King Street. Elks recorded the January 22, 1914 reception for Governor and Mrs. Pinkham as an unqualified success. The Lodge was decorated with potted palms and ferns, colorful ribbons, plenty of antlers, a taxidermied elk, and a huge picture of ‘Uncle Pink’ as the governor is known in Elkdom. A ‘wet’ 11 o’clock toast was followed by continued dancing. Donations kept event costs low. As an economy, Augustus Edward Murphy (first Leading Knight, ER 1912-13) took charge of soliciting cakes from wives and daughters of members. Brother Heydenreich of the Young Café sent plates, forks, punchbowls, and trays, along with six efficient waiters at no cost.

Most biographies stress Pinkham’s work toward the Ala Wai Canal, building a civic center, and modernizing the National Guard, but the Gov’s job was far tougher.

It hurt Pinkham when, late in 1914, McCarn was charged with assault (brawling, revolver, fellow attorney, IN the court house). Tried twice, and acquitted, he resigned in 1915.

World War I distressed Hawaii’s economy dropping general revenue 50%. Pinkham cut the College of Hawaii’s budget 25%. The 1917 U.S. entry into the war brought an anti-German frenzy: property seizures, arrests, internment camps, and threats of a German language ban. Profiteering, shortages, and hoarding of goods and food followed. The military wanted prohibition and help catching draft dodgers. A cattle anthrax outbreak was labeled a deliberate German plot to deplete our meat supply, while Hawaii and the world fought an influenza epidemic (20+million dead worldwide; 675,000 in U.S.).

Pinkham had a rough relationship with the press. Editors held him responsible for the Territory’s distress. Hearing Pinkham would be replaced, Hawaii Shinpo wrote that Pinkham had done what little he could to stir up trouble where none existed between allies Japan and U.S.A., and was notorious for his anti-Japanese tendencies.

Advertiser editors called Pinkham unpatriotic when he gave a speech that wasn’t stirring enough for red-blooded Americans opposed to Prussianism and the murderers of women and children. Their last Pinkham editorial labeled him a complete misfit who never once made himself plain to the community and rarely used a sentence that was understandable.

Pinkham resigned his BPOE 616 membership in April 1918. Why? Elks were the focus of a very public and bitter prohibition fight during World War I ‘dry’ patriotism. With 616 attacked, perhaps membership was a liability to a man who drank ‘McCarn cocktails’. Perhaps Pinkham was generally unhappy after being given the federal hook as the Advertiser labeled failure to be reappointed. Or Perhaps he hated being called Uncle Pink!

References: / Honolulu Advertiser Jan 1 & 23 1914, Dec 22 1915; Jan 8, Jul 3 1917, Jun 22, 1818; Sept 1, 1973 / Men of Hawaii, 1917, Honolulu Star-Bulletin Printing. / Membership records BPOE 616 / Minutes, BPOE 616, July 25, Aug 1, Dec 19 1913; Jan 16, 23 1914; Apr 26 1918 / Star-Bulletin Jan 3 & 23, Oct 9 1914

HAWAII TERRITORIAL SEAL BUTTON 1890

THIS VERY RARE UNIFORM COAT BUTTON MEASURES 21MM AND SHOWS THE TERRITORIAL SEAL OF HAWAII.

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