Robert K. Bonine

An early look at surfers off the coast of Honolulu

Young men playing on a floating platform off the coast of Honolulu.

A view of Haleiwa via the Oahu railroad.

Scenes of men and women parading horses.

A static shot of the sea tide bashing against the rocks.

Cattle are driven into the sea and tied to a row boat.

Dock workers offloading bags of sugar in Hawaii

A 360 degree view of Haleakala.

Various scenes of local color in Hawaii.

Various scenes of daily working life at a sugar plantation in Hawaii.

A panoramic view of Honolulu Harbor

A view of King Street in Hawaii.

Robert K. Bonine documents the destruction of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

A view of Waikiki in 1906.

A static shot of crowded trams returning people from an unknown sporting event.

Cast fishing in Hilo.

A panoramic view of Waikiki Beach.

A busy street scene on Lower Broadway,

The boys dance to Grandpa's banjo playing, then indicate that he can't equal their skill. Grandpa gets up and performs an intricate step while still playing the banjo.

Foxy Grandpa and Polly was a comic strip upon which husband and wife team Joseph Hart and Carrie DeMar based a musical for the stage. Here, they enter from our left, hand in hand, a sylvan backdrop behind them. They're in fancy dress: he in three-piece suit and tie, bowler hat in hand; she in frilly floor-length dress, hat, and long braid of hair behind. They do a carefully choreographed dance - he's comic with large nose and male-pattern baldness splitting white curly hair; she's festive and smiling. They stay in sync. The camera is stationary, and it's one take.

Taken in the immense excavation for the foundation of the new Macy building at the corner of Broadway and 34th Street, New York.

In the background is a row of three-masted sailing ships, at anchor, their sales furled. In the foreground, a simple pier that's more like a yardarm juts out above the water; about 15 boys of six or seven years of age are on the jutting wood, and they jump off into the water below. The water looks to be about three feet deep. They swim back toward the pier. A small motorized boat passes. It's a stationary camera; one take.