State Archivist and LIS Adjunct Instructor Adam Jansen flew to New York in March to bring back Queen Liliʻuokalani’s Royal Standard, as well as letters and documents related to the overthrow. The items were to be auctioned off but were instead acquired by the State Archives, thanks to $60,000 in donations that enabled the State to purchase the items. The Royal Standard was the queen’s personal flag that was flown over her home in Honolulu on the day she was overthrown. Jansen was quoted as saying, “I will be treating the queen’s personal flag as representing the queen herself. It has mana. The flag is an important piece of the story of Hawaiʻi coming back to the people after more than a century.”
