Hilo Gallery

Hilo Bay – 1881

View from Hilo to Mauna Loa – 1854

View to Mauna Kea from Hilo – 1603

Hilo with the view to Mauna Kea – 1920

Cocoanut Island Hilo – 1900

Cocoanut Island Hilo – 1905

Hilo with homes near the shoreline, Hawaii Island.

A trip to Hawaii: (1892)

Waiakea River with fishing canoes and people gathered on shore, Hilo, Hawaii Island.

Queen arriving Hilo Bay

Lovely view of Hilo Bay, Hawaii taken circa 1890. A ship sails in the water, the White Mountains in the background.

Onomea Valley, Hilo – 1920

Hilo Grass House – Hilo

Hilo Harbor

Hilo from the Bay

Hilo Wharf, Hilo

Areal view Hilo – June 1929

Aeriel view of Hilo, Hawaii Island – ca 1920

Hawaii, Hilo Area View

Hilo, Boarding School – 1907

Home of Joseph Nawahi at Kūkuaū, Hilo

Hawaii, Hilo, Lyman House, HailiStreet 276

Lyman Mission House – Hilo ©Foto Gérard Koch

Hilo, sugar-mill

Tsunami wave is sweeping on-shore at the Hilo Sugar Company Mill, with smoke coming out of the smoke stack. Near Hilo Bay on the Big Island of Hawaii. April 1, 1946.

Hilo, old police and courthouse – ca 1960

Hilo Town – 1880

Kamehameha Ave ( Frontstreet), Hilo

Kamehameha Ave ( Frontstreet), Hilo

Town – Hilo 2017 ©Foto Gérard Koch

Aerial View Hilo – 1960 Before

Area View Hilo – 2003 Now

Hula Dance – Hilo

Rainbow Falls

Peepee Falls – Hilo

1920’s St Joseph Catholic Mission & Church Hilo Hawaii

Naniloa Hotel Hilo, Hawaii Island

Downtown Hilo, Hawaii Island. Hilo Drug Co., Ltd. near left and American Factors across street.- ca 1928

Pacific Building, Hilo 1922

Pacific Tsunami Museum in a Bank Building

The Locals call the Kamehameha Avn. the Front Street.. ©Foto Gérard Koch, Talesofhawaii.net

Kaikodo Building, built 1908, Hilo © Foto Gérard Koch

Kaikodo Building, built 1908, Hilo © Foto Gérard Koch

Volcano Block Building – Build in 1910 to 1915 in Italian Renaissance style – ©Foto Gérard Koch

Waiakea Mission – Haili Chirch, built 1850’s ©Foto Gérard Koch

From the early 1930s through the mid-1950s, scores of Hilo kids, like those in this 1933 photo, attended Palace Theatre’s „Mickey Mouse Club“ hosted by musician Johnny De Mello. Lyman Museum

Haili Church was first a thatched grass building holding over 1000 people. It was the first church of Hilo’s Christian Mission Station. The timber was transported from Upper Waiakea forest while traditional chanting was done. The King’s workmen started building the current building in the mid 1850’s. Hawai’i State Archives

H. Hackfeld & Co. This block-long, two-story reinforced concrete building, built by H. Hackfeld in 1910 and now the Koehnen Building, is a local rendition of the Renaissance architectural style. Originally it housed H. Hackfeld Co., a whole-sale general merchandise operation that also encompassed a lumberyard and planning mill, contracting and plumbing departments, furniture making, and marine and fire insurance. During WWI the Germany company’s assets were seized and the building was subsequently resold, first to American Factors and then to F.W. Koehnen. Koehnen’s Collection