[[1890s imports]] ## Resources To Review @schmitt_2003 on early statistical data collection: > Businessmen initiated series on ship arrivals in 1824, imports and exports in 1834, sugar production in 1836, business establishments in 1840, prices in 1844, cattle in 1846, and diversified agriculture in 1850. Statistics compiled under government auspices included series on shipping and customs (beginning in 1836) See @wyllie_1845 for "Notes on the ==shipping, trade, agriculture==, climate: diseases, religious institutions, civil and social condition, mercantile and financial policy of the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, viewed in relation to other groups of Islands, and to the natural and acquired advantages of the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands." @judd_1974 for ship movements from 1779 to 1860 > “Wyllie (1798—1865) has already been mentioned. His series of articles in The Friend, published in 1844, for the first time compiled much of the relevant data on the kingdom: "Notes on the Shipping, Trade, Agriculture, Climate, Diseases, Religious Institutions, Civil and Social Condition, Mercantile and Financial Policy of the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, viewed in Relation to Other Groups of Islands, and to the Natural and Acquired Advantages of the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands." His 1848 report, Answers to Questions Proposed by His Excellency, R. C. Wyllie, His Hawaiian Majesty's Minister ofForeign Relations, and Addressed to all the Missionaries in the Hawaiian Islands, May 1846, was a pioneering social and economic survey, many years ahead of its time” [@schmitt_2003, p. 58] Robert Crichton Wyllie, "Notes on the Shipping, Trade, Agriculture, Climate, Diseases, Religious Institutions, Civil and Social Condition, Mercantile and Financial Policy of the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, Viewed in Relation to Other Groups of Islands, and to the Natural and Acquired Advantages of the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands," F, II, May—December 1844. Answers to Questions Proposed by His Excellency, R.C. Wyllie, His Hawaiian Majesty's Minister of Foreign Relations, and Addressed to all the Missionaries in the Hawaiian Islands, May 1846. ## 1778 - 1850 “Businessmen initiated series on ship arrivals in 1824, imports and exports in 1834, sugar production in 1836, business establishments in 1840, prices in 1844, cattle in 1846, and diversified agriculture in 1850.” [@schmitt_2003, p. 50] Schmitt 2003?: Wyllie for the first time compiled much of the relevant data on the kingdom: "Notes on the Shipping, Trade, Agriculture, Climate, Diseases, Religious Institutions, Civil and Social Condition, Mercantile and Financial Policy of the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, viewed in Relation to Other Groups of Islands, and to the Natural and Acquired Advantages of the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands." His 1848 report, Answers to Questions Proposed by His Excellency, R. C. Wyllie, His Hawaiian Majesty's Minister ofForeign Relations, and Addressed to all the Missionaries in the Hawaiian Islands, May 184 ## 1850s "The first Boston ice brought to these islands" arrived September 14, 1850, by way of San Francisco aboard the brig Fortunio. On June 22, 1852, "a few tons of ice were brought to this port from San Francisco by the bark Harriet T. Bartlet" and were partly sold at auction; this was hailed as "the first importation of the kind, in any quantity, to this market." The first full cargo of ice came from Sitka aboard the brig Noble in the latter part of 1853. (Schmitt, 1980, p. 16) ## 1870s Locally manufactured ice was put on sale December 2, 1871, but the firm providing it went out of business a month later. Local production of ice was eventually resumed in 1875.10” (Schmitt, 1980, p. 16) ## 1920s “The first home electric refrigerators sold in Hawaii were reportedly Kelvinators, introduced by the Hawaiian Electric Company in 1922. Newspaper advertisements for electric refrigerators did not appear until 1925, however, when Hawaiian Electric began running display ads for "Kelvinator, the Oldest Domestic Electric Refrigeration."” (Schmitt, 1980, p. 16) [[Piggly Wiggly]] establishes in Hawaii ## 1930s @schmitt_1980, p. 16: > Quick-frozen foods initially entered the Island market in 1938, when (according to a subsequent account) "Rawley's Ice Cream Co., 659 South Beretania Street, Honolulu, ordered its first shipment of Birdseye frosted foods, now cannot get enough to go around.” ¹⁰⁷ ## 1940s Supermarket revolution