Office of the Governor

Feleti Barstow Public Library, the designated State Library Administrative Agency for the U.S. Territory of American Samoa, will use grant funds to support the Polynesian Photo Archives, a digital repository of visual images of historic Samoan culture and traditions. The project will preserve and make accessible archival materials that are historically and culturally significant to the Samoan Islands and Polynesia, dating from the 1840s to the present. Grant funds will support continued efforts to process and digitize this collection, and various methods of crowdsourcing from local students, scholars, historians and elders will be utilized to collect metadata.