Album: Historic Superintendents' Reports

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park has a collection of park Superintendents’ Reports that date from 1922-1981. The reports are invaluable source of information on the history of the park. The earliest reports cover a period when the park was called Hawaii National Park and encompassed what is now Haleakala National Park. The parks split in 1960, and the superintendent reports continued to document the operations in and around the newly formed Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. The reports contain information on day-to-day operations, many documented using photographs. This album is a small selection of the 2300+ photographs found in the reports. The descriptions are the original captions from the reports. To request a high resolution tif or jpeg version of any of the photographs or to conduct other research in the superintendent reports please email havo_archive_museum@nps.gov