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.”