Subseries contains 42 original watercolors and pencil and charcoal drawings created by Alexander Samuel MacLeod and compiled in his 1943 book titled The Spirit of Hawaii, Before and After Pearl Harbor (University of Hawaii at Manoa call number DU623 .M25). The works in the Hawaii War Records Depository do not include all of the images in the published volume. The artwork contains several colorful scenes of military life on Oahu during wartime (soldiers waiting for a bus and patronizing a tattoo shop, for example) as well as darker depictions of the destruction of war like barbed wire on beaches and scenes of destruction from December 7, 1941. A. S. MacLeod was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1888. He studied art and design on the U.S. mainland and traveled to Hawaii in 1921, where he worked in the art department for several local publications and later for the United States Army’s graphic arts department during World War II. MacLeod produced many watercolors, lithographs, and drawings of Hawaiian landscapes and scenes of local life. His work was often exhibited in Honolulu galleries and awarded prizes by the Honolulu Academy of Arts. MacLeod’s contemporaries include Juliette May Fraser and Jean Charlot. After his work in Hawaii, MacLeod retired to Palo Alto, California and passed away in 1956. This subseries also includes a single file of supplementary material with a partial inventory of the artwork in the collection and fliers from a 1998 exhibition of MacLeod’s artwork at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Photographs from this file of supplementary material have been removed for storage with other photographs in the collection and include photographs of four MacLeod works present in the HWRD as well as one image of the artist.