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Collection Index &
General Digitized Content

This inventory contains the entire box index for the KPV Collection. Documents are linked as they are scanned and can be found in boxes -- there are three subsets of the collection: general, education & culture, and newsletters, magazines, press releases, & UN reports.

Eduaction & Culture
​Digitized Content

All box content in the collection related to education and culture can be found here.

Newsletters, Magazine,
Press Releases & UN Reports

Newsletters, magazines, press releases and UN Reports have a slightly different inventory. View them here.

Image Caption Inventory

The collection currently has thousands of slides and pictures which have captions, or need them! Please look through this inventory and if you recognize an error or a place for input, submit that to us here: Caption Submission Form.

Arts & Crafts Collection

Kit has collected many items over the years. You can see pictures of them here.

Audio Inventory Samples*

*The audio inventory will not be linked until it has been completely listened to. Several samples have been cleared for preview -- listen here.

Book Inventory

Like the 'Arts and Crafts' collection, Kit has collected many books over the years related to the NMI and other topics.

Personal Comment

A heartfelt thank you to the Northern Marianas Humanities Council for supporting this work.  I did not realize how difficult the job would be of working with this collection; I had left everything in boxes for 30 and more years for a reason.  Without NMHC's support all this material would never have been made available to the NMI and the general public.  On one level, it helped greatly to know that a group of people cared about preserving and having access to this material.  On another level, I did not have the skills to design and do the technical/computer work.  Michael Sousa proved to be the perfect person to teach and assist me.
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It was my privilege to live on Rota and Saipan and to be part of those communities and their histories.  My hope is that friends and families will enjoy seeing this slice of history.