The project, funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, will digitize old photographs held in family collections in the CNMI.
Many photos and slides in these collections are threatened by the tropical climate and in danger of being lost forever.
Interested individuals are invited to bring their family photos to the museum in Garapan on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
For more information, contact the museum staff at 664-2160 or visit the Council’s Web site at www.nmihumanities.org.
Museum volunteers will carefully produce a digital file for each photograph or slide using a flatbed scanner.
In order to be eligible for this project, the photographic images must be at least 25 years old and depict people and events in the Northern Marianas.
Whenever possible, museum volunteers will collect contextual information about individual photographs from the donors thus increasing their historical value. The digital images will then be added to an historic photograph database that currently is being compiled by the council.
