Tai Sing Loo Collection

Photographs by Tai Sing Loo (1886–1971) in the Hawaiian Historical Society collection. Tai Sing Loo was born in Honolulu. His career in photography began when he went to work for the Gurrey Art Shop in Honolulu in 1909. From there, he took a job with the U.S. Navy in 1918, eventually becoming the official photographer for the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Besides his official photos of historic events and visiting dignitaries at Pearl Harbor, Loo satisfied his fascination with volcanoes by making numerous trips to the island of Hawai‘i to capture the beauty and the destruction of the volcanoes there.