The HMCS Library collections focus on the Missionary Period in Hawaiian history and contain over 12,000 printed volumes and over 250 linear feet of manuscript material, including:

• Hawaiian-language imprints produced on the missionary press
• Micronesian and Marquesan language books, including Bibles
• Microfilms of missionary journals and letters
• Missionary journals, written in their own hand
• Manuscripts
• Photographs of missionaries and their homes and churches. Also of Hawaiian ali´i.
• Art-on-paper. Many missionaries were proficient in art, and some of their work has survived.
• Pamphlets related to missionary work and everyday lives
• To search our published works, go to our online catalog.