Queen's Medical Center Artifacts

King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma

While wandering the halls looking for the hospital's dining room so I could get a bite of breakfast while waiting for the wife's surgery to be completed, I chanced upon a glass case of artifacts.

Included among the Queen's Medical Center memorabilia were two sheets of paper documenting (1) the hospital's surgical record of March 1910 and (2) a list of the hospital's trustees from 1883-1885.

Being an old-paper collectible fanatic, I just had to take pictures of these fascinating items:

List of Trustees, 1883-1885

Surgical Record, 1910

The hospital, of course, was named after Queen Emma (Emma Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke), the royal consort of King Kamehameha IV (Alexander ʻIolani Liholiho). After her husband died, she ran against King Kalakaua (David Laʻamea Kamanakapuʻu Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalākaua) to be Hawaii's ruling monarch, but she lost the election.

It's a good thing the royal Hawaiians didn't have their names printed on the back of their football jerseys. Oooo, sorry, that just slipped out.