A lifetime resident of Honolulu since his birth there, DeSoto Brown's lifetime has covered the city's growth from containing only two structures of almost 10 stories in height to today's total of over 400 high-rise towers. Always fascinated by history and feeling a need to preserve objects of the past, he's assembled a large collection of Hawaii-related paper ephemera mostly connected to advertising and promotion for tourism. He's worked at the Bernice P.¿Bishop Museum in Honolulu for over 40 years in its Archives and Library. Among his publications as a sole author or contributor are "Hawaii Recalls" (1982), "Aloha Waikiki" (1985), "Hawaii Goes To War" (1989), "Finding Paradise" (2002), "The Art of the Aloha Shirt" (2002), "Hawaii At Play" (2003), "Surfing: Images from Bishop Museum Archives" (2006), and "Art Deco in Hawaii" (2014).