Honolulu Hawaii Moana Hotel Music Room 1910s Postcard Unposted Divided Back

Produced in the 1910s, this postcard presents the Music Room of the Moana Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii during the early territorial tourism era.

The Moana Hotel, opened in 1901, stood as one of Waikiki’s premier resort properties, designed to accommodate affluent travelers arriving by steamship. Grand interior spaces in Hawaiian resort hotels blended Victorian and Colonial Revival influences with tropical ornamentation, reflecting both mainland architectural taste and island setting. Public rooms were staged as refined social environments, featuring upholstered seating, decorative screens, chandeliers, and broad windows opening toward verandas and ocean air.

The image shows a formal parlor arrangement with folding screens painted in landscape motifs, upholstered armchairs, potted palms, and a chandelier suspended from a molded ceiling. A curtained doorway frames rear windows while patterned carpet and side tables complete the symmetrical composition. Caption text at lower left reads Music Room Moana Hotel Honolulu Hawaii, identifying the interior space directly on the card face. The divided back format is consistent with early twentieth-century postcard production.

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