📜 Media Kit & About Us

Welcome to the GG Archives Media Kit — designed for journalists, educators, researchers, and anyone seeking a quick overview of our mission, reach, and educational value. This page provides essential facts, teaching resources, and guidance for attribution.

📊 Quick Facts

• Founded: 2000
• Pages Published: 7,400+ HTML pages
• Images: 19,000+ curated and restored images
• Focus Areas: Immigration, Ocean Travel, Military, Vintage Fashion, WPA, Special Collections
• Audience: Students, educators, genealogists, historians, researchers, and lifelong learners
• Funding: Privately stewarded, ad-supported, with image licensing available

🎓 For Educators & Homeschooling Families

The GG Archives is designed to be a trusted resource for the classroom and the kitchen table alike. From middle school through graduate research, our materials provide authentic primary sources, curated summaries, and teaching-ready tools.

• Middle School (13+): Safe, age-appropriate introductions with glossaries and Did You Know? highlights.
• High School: Rich essay prompts, passenger lists, and fashion house profiles to support papers and projects.
• College & University: Primary sources and bibliographies for advanced research in history, fashion, sociology, and genealogy.
• Homeschooling Families: Flexible resources to design lessons in history, civics, or cultural studies — with built-in citations.

All materials are free to access and curated for educational use, making the GG Archives a valuable companion for teachers, parents, and lifelong learners alike.

🌟 Mission & Tagline

Mission: The GG Archives preserves and shares primary source materials — passenger lists, military yearbooks, vintage fashion, immigration documents, and ephemera — to tell the human side of history. By making these resources freely available online, we empower students, educators, genealogists, and historians to explore and connect with the past.

Tagline: Privately stewarded, publicly accessible — GG Archives preserves the ephemera that tells the human side of history.

📰 Press & Attribution Guidance

Journalists, educators, and researchers are welcome to cite, quote, and link to the GG Archives in their work. Please credit the collection as follows:

• Preferred Citation: “Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives (GG Archives), https://www.ggarchives.com/”
• Images: Each image includes a GGA Image ID for easy reference. High-resolution versions are available for licensing.
• Attribution Style: Chicago, APA, and MLA formatted examples are provided on most detail pages.

Contact: For press inquiries, high-resolution images, or academic questions, please visit our Contact Us page.