India’s Watumull family looms large as a retailer in Hawaii
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
June 3, 1937
—A four-page
advertisement insert from the
Honolulu Advertiser, marking the
opening of the Watumull Building on
1162 Fort Street. The publication includes
several short articles about G.J.
Watumull and J. Watumull, advertisements
for the stores, products, and
boutiques housed in the building, as
well as photographs of the East India
Store interior and its employees.
Alice Itty is a volunteer for the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). She currently works for the Alliance for Downtown New York. This column’s material is from SAADA. https://www.saada.org/.
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