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Repository: Hawaiʻi State Archives
Within State of Hawai‘i’s archives are nearly 70 photographs and other documents that detail the assistance provided by the Territory of Hawaiʻi. Photographs show that in 1937, territorial architect Harry Kaʻonohi Stewart was sent to the islands to help build new quarters for the colonists. Nearly twenty years later, incorporation documents note that a group called “Hui Panalaau” was formed whose purpose was “to preserve and perpetuate the association of those persons who took part in and contributed to the colonization of the Equatorial Islands … and to honor those who died while in the service of the United States of America as colonists of the Equatorial Islands of the Pacific.”
Left - Richard B. Black, representative of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior of Honolulu and Albert Akana Jr., leader of a group of Hawaiian boys who are stationed on Jarvis island to maintain the weather observation station for their country.
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Left - Right: Richard Stafford and Robert Hite, son of Hawaii's acting governor Charles M. Hite. Schoolboys of Hawaii left Honolulu on the U.S. Cost Guard cutter Itasca for Baker, Howland and Jarvis Islands.
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Left - right: C.L. Bissell, U.S.A., William T. Miller, superintendent of airways, U.S. Dept. of Commerce's bureau of aeronautics; Lieut. Frank Kenner, executive officerU.S.C.G. cutter Itasca; and Lt. Emory Stephens, USN at Honolulu prior to leaving on the Itasca for the southern seas
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Left to right: William T. Miller, Superintendent of airways, U.S. Dept. of Commerces Bureau of Aeronautics; Luther Waiwaiole, William Yomes, Solomon Kalama, Georger Kahanu. Sitting l-r: Henry Mahikoa, James Carroll, Henry Ohumukini, Joseph Kim, Alex Kahapea
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