Record 1502/3447 Catalog Record Film Negatives Exhibit Page Home Search Description  Negative: safety negative of Sanford B. and Mrs. Dole (a) and contact print (b). Catalog card description: "Dole, Sanford B. President and Mrs. Dole, San Francisco, 1898." Text: "Sanford B. Dole, President of the Hawaiian republic, arrived in port last evening. I called on him at his hotel lodgings, and found a self-possessed, grave gentleman over six feet in height, with a long, flowing, slightly silvered beard, who received visitors and reporters with dignity. After the throng had thinned out I had a few moments' conversation. He said, plesanatly: 'My visit has no official character. It was thought best in Hawaii that I should confer with our minister, Mr. Hatch, and that I should be within reach of President McKinley in case he wished for information regarding the islands. But I was clothed with no authority. No, I did not come here for my health. I came in the interests of the annexation treaty..."

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