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Feature Story: How the MARC library helped Debbie Torres piece together her family’s past.

How the MARC library helped Debbie Torres piece together her family’s past Debbie Torres has been visiting MARC since 2011, tracing her family history back through the generations.

A publication of the National Museum of Anthropology, Madrid.

I estoria-ta: Guam, the Mariana Islands and chamorro culture Se presenta en esta publicación el proyecto bautizado con el nombre de "I estoria-ta: Guam, las Marianas y la cultura chamorra", como parte de la exposición temporal celebrada en el Museo Nacional de Antropología de Madrid entre el 11 de noviembre de 2021 y el 6 de marzo de 2022 y titulada "BIBA ...

Micronesian Area Research Center 50th Anniversary

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MARC 50th Anniversary Open House 8.29.2017

On March 12, 2016, the Federation of Asia-Pacific Women's Association (FAWA) Guam Members proudly presented the Association’s records to the Micronesian Area Research Center. Guam is a charter member of FAWA which began in 1959. Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo represented Guam at the FAWA Charter signing. Members of FAWA hail from the Asia-Pacific. To date Guam has 2 Past Presidents, several International Board Members and 8 member organizations.
From left seated FAWA International Treasurer Chet Neri, FAWA International Past President and current Advisor Kristal Koga, FAWA International Asst. Secretary Dr. Francoise Martin, Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo, Omaira Brunal-Perry of MARC, FAWA International 2nd Vice President Lulu Chen, American Association of University Women President Dr. Mary Okada. Standing from left: Guam Council of Women's Clubs Vice President Dorothy Borlas, Filipino Ladies Association President Annie Gozum-Soto, Guam Council of Women's Clubs President Caroline Sablan, American Association of University Women Past President Dr. Becky Stephenson-Kurashina, International Women's Club President Jenny Yang, and MARC Director Dr. Monique Storie. Search the records at http://rfk2.edu.gu:8080/jspui/handle/20.500.11751/184

October 2015 American Archives Month.
NHPRC supports the processing and uncovering of new material at the Spanish and Manuscripts Collection at RFT MARC, University of Guam.

A short, compelling video about the importance of archives.

Archives Change Lives Promotional video for SAA's "Archives Change Lives" campaign, featuring Kathleen D. Roe, Dennis Meissner, Steven Booth, and Samantha Norling.

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Perhaps our most far-flung grantee is the University of Guam, which is undertaking a two-year project to process and make accessible the Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center Manuscripts Collection, including basic processing of 60 collections and enhanced description of finding aids for 150 collections. These collections comprise the premier holdings of materials related to the United States territory of Guam, the Marianas Islands, and the Pacific region of Micronesia.

Founded in 1952 and centrally located on the island in the town of Mangilao, the University of Guam functions as the major U.S. higher learning institution in the Western Pacific. The Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center opened in 1967. The manuscripts collection contains personal papers of the governor of Guam, from the early governors of the American Naval period (1898-1950), the civilian governors appointed after 1950, delegates to the U.S. Congress, and field notes from archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, and other historical reports.

Among the collections are:

- W. W. Bradley Jr. Papers, 1898-1954, 3 linear feet. A naval governor, Bradley advocated granting civil rights to the local Chamarros and Guamanians and introduced free elections. This collection consists of correspondence, speeches, reports, and photographs.

- M.F.L. Guerrero Papers, 1948-1969, 13 linear feet. The second Chamarro governor of Guam, Guerrero steered the island people through recovery in the wake of its devastating Typhoon Karen. This collection contains correspondence, press releases, dispatches, speeches, and photographs.

- R.J. Bordallo Papers, 1960-1986, 212 linear feet. Bordallo was a senator in the Guam legislature in 1950s and 1960s and then Governor of Guam from 1974-1978. This collection has correspondence, press releases, speeches, Executive orders, and daily schedules.

- A.B. Won Pat Papers, 1965-1984, 285 linear feet. Won Pat was Guam’s “Washington representative,” 1965-1972 and Guam’s first delegate to Congress, 1972-1984.

- Jane H. Underwood Papers, 1963-1968, 57 linear feet. Professor and anthropologist Jane Underwood was an authority on the Chamorro and other indigenous people in Micronesia. Her papers contain her field notes, population research files, and survey files, among other research files.

You can take a look at some of the finding aids at http://rfk2.edu.gu:8080/jspui/.

Now Finding Aids to MARC Digital Repository are available. Project funded by NHPRC.

RFK and MARC Digital Repository: Home Lt. Frederick J. Nelson and his wife Evelyn G. Nelson were stationed on Guam from 1934-1936 as Frederick was a crewmember aboard the U.S.S. Gold Star. While on Island they began researching William E. Safford, an aid to Captain Richard P. Leary, Guam’s first appointed American naval governor in orde…

Beautiful building. It must be reconstructed in a manner that keeps its historical character.

"transport" in time. Background is Governor's Palace during US Naval Government.