1977 Alseth Pictorial Map of Moloka'i, Hawaii

Fredric Orval Alseth (February 26, 1924 - November 29, 2006), also known as Fritz Alseth, was an illustrator and missionary who traveled widely throughout the American West and Mexico. Born in Billings, Montana, Alseth moved to Wisconsin with his family as a child before attending college and majoring in art, though he served as an engineer in World War II. After the war, Alseth moved to California, where he would spend most of the rest of his life. He was a commercial artist in the San Francisco Bay Area for roughly twenty years and produced many works relating to different localities in California, including promotional maps. In the late 1960s, he switched primarily to illustrating children's books, and in the mid-late 1970s, he focused on missionary work in Australia, Hawaii, and Latin America. He moved to the Northeastern U.S. and then Lake Chapala, Mexico, in the 1980s, but at some point returned to California, where he died in 2006. More by this mapmaker...

The Fisher Printing Company (c. 1966 - 2023) was a Honolulu-based printer that was also an office supply (including office furniture) and stationery store at various points in its history. Founded as the Multigraphy, List, and Letter Co. in 1929 in Honolulu, the company was bought in 1933 by Geoffrey C. Fisher and Hy Holloway, who renamed it the Fisher Corporation. The company took on more printing and stationery services from the 1940s and, in 1967, was renamed Fisher Hawaii. Around the same time, the printing division was spun off as the Fisher Printing Company and sold directly to its employees, which was considered the first such sale in Hawaii's history. In later years, Fisher Corporation became a pioneer in the office supply warehouse model, influencing larger 'big box' stores like Office Max and Staples. The Fisher Printing Company appears to have recently gone out of business (c. 2023). Learn More...