IAAM History Free Document Scanning Day at The International American Museum

Join us on Monday, October 14th for a special family and community history event at the IAAM! Preserve your family’s history with the IAAM’s Center for Family History, Faith-Based team, and Vivid-Pix. The public will have the opportunity to scan and digitize up to 10 family photos (pre-1970s) and documents* using scanning software from Vivid-Pix (to use the scanner, photos, and documents need to be 11”x17” or smaller).

This scanning event is FREE and will be held in the public Garden Level of the museum.

Please bring a 1 terrabyte USB drive. The digital scans of your documents and pictures will be saved on this drive for you to take home. You will also be asked to complete and sign a short donation form for the Center to add your donated records to the Center for Family History’s archive.

Family elders can join too – there will be a commemorative “story booth” audio recording area where the elders can record family memories or historic community memories from ‘back in the day’.
Younger family members can join too- there will be plenty of fun activities to do – making this a day for the whole family!

This is a free, drop-in event from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm.

However, to guarantee a scanning spot during the day, the public is encouraged to sign up for a 15-minute scanning spot by visiting IAAM History Harvest 14 October 2024 scanning sign-up

*Acceptable Documents & Images

• Church Obituaries
• Funeral Programs
• Birth Records
• Delayed Birth Records
• Marriage Records
• Death Records
• Pre-1970 Family Photographs
• Pictures of Old Black Charleston (neighborhoods, businesses, etc.)
• Family Bibles (with family birth, marriage, and death entries)
• Slavery-related documents

Date: Saturday, 21 September 2024
Time: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

View the traveling Harriet Tubman The Journey to Freedom statue on the Garden Level when you visit.

You can also visit the Follow the North Star exhibit before it leaves the Museum on its national tour (requires admission ticket)

Location:
The International African American Museum
Garden Level
14 Wharfside Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29401

If you would like to preserve the African American history of your community, and live within a 90-minute radius of Charleston, please contact [email protected] to arrange an IAAM History scanning day in 2025.