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Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Sheila Cavanagh
Amount: $314,056
Creating an online database of popular novels written by American and British women authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a link between complementary databases at Emory University and Indiana University.
Everson Museum of Art
Syracuse, NY
Debora W. Ryan
Amount: $4,993
A preservation assessment of the museum’s library and archival holdings, which include materials on the history of American art as well as the archives of the Ceramic Study Center.
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Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium
St. Johnsbury, VT
Charles C. Browne
Amount: $5,000
Consultation with a conservator to develop a preservation plan for the museum’s 12 habitat dioramas, which were created by William E. Balch from 1890 to 1919.
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Robert G. Futernick
Amount: $149,953
The creation of digital images of 5,900 objects from the museum’s textile and costume collections and the incorporation of the images into a database accessible through the museum’s website.
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Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
Rodney D. Anderson
Amount: $166,838
The creation of a database of population censuses taken in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 1791 to 1843. Tools and guides to facilitate quantitative analysis of the data will accompany the database.
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Fort Edward Historical Association, Inc.
Fort Edward, NY
Paul McCarty
Amount: $3,101
A preservation assessment of the Old Fort House Museum collection of documents
and photographs that are related to the history and culture of eastern New York State. |
Fundación Luis Munoz Marin
San Juan, PR
Julio E. Alcala
Amount: $5,000
A general preservation assessment of the foundation’s archival and museum collections with
a view to long-term overall preservation needs.
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Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades
San Juan, PR
Agustin Echevarria
Amount: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for Puerto Rico.
Georgia Humanities Council
Atlanta, GA
Jamil S. Zainaldin
Amount: $175,640
The creation of the online New Georgia Encyclopedia, a multimedia
resource providing information on the history and heritage of the state.
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Atlanta, GA
Anne A. Salter
Amount: $2,800
A preservation assessment of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill collection,
which contains resources for the study of the history of textile manufacturing in the southeastern United States.
Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library
Gloucester, MA
Thomas Madden
Amount: $3,092
A general preservation survey of the library facility, which consists
of three buildings scheduled to undergo renovation, and the general and special
collections, which serve as the city’s public library and document the history of
Gloucester since its founding in the 17th century.
Guam Humanities Council
Tamuning, GU
Richie K. Lim
Amount: $49,969
Planning for an online encyclopedia for Guam.
Hancock Shaker Village, Inc.
Pittsfeld, MA
Christian D. Goodwillie
Amount:$3,303
A preservation assessment of archival collections related to the history and culture of the Shakers in New England.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Susan Ware
Amount: $139,038
The completion of editorial work on the fifth volume of Notable American Women, which will include
500 biographies of women who died in the last quarter of the 20th century. |
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Kathryn A. Jacob
Amount: $232,344
Processing 13 individual and organizational collections that document the growth of
the women’s movement in the 1960s and 1970s and its response to internal challenges
and outside opposition in the 1980s and 1990s. |
Healdsburg Museum
Healdsburg, CA
Marie Shobe
Amount: $4,840
Consultation with a conservator who will assist in developing a long-range preservation plan
for the museum’s collection of 30,000 objects of local material culture and
its collection of 8,000 photographs and documents.
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Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
Stephen A. Kaufman
Amount: $75,000*
The research and preparation of a multivolume citation-based dictionary
of Aramaic, an ancient Near Eastern language used at the time of Christ.
Work on Christian Palestinian, Syriac, Jewish, and Mandaic Aramaic will be undertaken.
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Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
Stephen A. Kaufman
Amount: $198,000
The preparation of a multivolume, citation-based dictionary of ancient Aramaic,
a Semitic language of the Near East and the Classical worlds, which is of central importance
for the study of Judaism and Christianity. |
Heritage Preservation
Washington, DC
Jane S. Long
Amount: $27,000*
To support a survey of cultural institutions affected by the September 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks and a report of damage and loss. |
Herreshoff Marine Museum
Bristol, RI
John J. Palmieri
Amount: $4,874
TA conservation assessment and the purchase of environmental monitoring
equipment and storage supplies for the long-term preservation of a collection
of the writings and designs of American ship and yacht builder Nathaneal Herreshoff. |
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Historic Northampton
Northampton, MA
Kerry W. Buckley
Amount: $3,118
A preservation assessment of 660 cased photographs illustrating men’s and women’s fashions from 1840 to 1860. |
Hot Springs County Museum and Cultural Center
Thermopolis, WY
Alexandra F. Service
Amount: $5,000
A preservation assessment of humanities collections that include household
and farming artifacts, Native American artifacts, and archival materials related to the history of western Wyoming. |
House of the Seven Gables
Salem, MA
Alexandria M. Mason
Amount: $5,000
An assessment of an historic house and collections that pertain to the life of Nathaniel
Hawthorne and early American maritime history. |
Hull Lifesaving Museum
Hull, MA
Paula Kozol
Amount: $4,800
The purchase of storage furniture, supplies, and environmental monitoring equipment
to preserve prints, photographs, and historical periodicals focused on the history of
organized lifesaving and the maritime cultural heritage of Boston Harbor and the region. |
Hyde Collection
Glens Falls, NY
Erin Budis Coe
Amount: $5,000
A training workshop for the museum’s staff and volunteers and the
purchase of storage materials to preserve a textile collection dating
from 1500 to 1900 that documents various European weaving and printing techniques. |
Idaho Humanities Council
Boise, ID
Marc C. Johnson
Amount: $49,500
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. |
Idaho State Historical Society
Boise, ID
Linda Morton-Keithley
Amount: $5,000
The purchase of archival supplies to preserve collections related to Idaho’s state history.
Indiana University, Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Kristine Brancolini
Amount: $239,343
The conversion to electronic form of 564,000 paper-based entries in the annual Film Literature
Index (1976–2000), which will be made available on the Internet.
Indiana University, Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Albert Valdman
Amount: $284,456
The preparation of a lexical database and historical dictionary of Louisiana French and a computerized corpus of written texts.
John Carter Brown Library
Providence, RI
Norman Fiering
Amount: $201,156
The cataloging of approximately 2,000 titles printed in Colonial Spanish America from the 1500s to 1825.
John Carter Brown Library
Providence, RI
Susan L. Danforth
Amount: $4,975
The rehousing of 1,390 colonial Latin American imprints and 18th century English-language
imprints in archival pamphlet folders and custom-sized boxes.
Kandiyohi County Historical Society
Willmar, MN
Mona R. Nelson-Balcer
Amount: $4,947
The purchase of additional storage furniture to house the society’s
collection of 5,200 three-dimensional artifacts that document the history of the county from the mid-1800s to the present.
Kentucky Historical Society
Frankfort, KY
Nancy Jane Glaser
Amount: $109,960
The purchase of storage furniture and rehousing of material culture
collections that document agriculture, arts, crafts, architecture, folk life, industry, military history,
technology, and other aspects of Kentucky life.
L.C. Bates Museum
Hinckley, ME
Deborah W. Staber
Amount: $4,850
Consultation with a conservator to plan, implement, and provide training
for staff and volunteers to rehouse the museum’s collection of 210 textiles, and 65 historic and 30,000 archaeological artifacts.
Lahaina Restoration Foundation
Lahaina, HI
Lanihuli Freidenburg
Amount: $5,000
Consultation with a conservator and an architect to develop
a plan for creating an environmentally sound storage facility for collections exhibited in the
foundation’s six buildings. The collections document the period of the Hawaiian monarchy, the missionary era, and plantation life. |
Lees-McRae College
Banner Elk, NC
Patti Burke Bowers
Amount: $4,730
A preservation needs assessment to develop a
long-range plan for care of library collections related to the religious and Native American history
and literature of Appalachia. |
Lincoln Memorial University
Harrogate, TN
Donna O. Bible
Amount: $5,000
The purchase of environmental monitoring equipment and storage
materials to rehouse archival, manuscript, photographic, map, and book collections that focus on
Abraham Lincoln and the history of the Civil War. The needs of the university’s institutional archives will also be addressed. |
Little Big Horn College
Crow Agency, MT
Timothy A. Bernardis
Amount: $2,700
A preservation assessment of archival records related to the Crow Indians and the
Crow reservation in Montana from the late 19th century to the present. |
Little Compton Historical Society
Little Compton, RI
Laura J. Anderson
Amount: $2,801
An assessment of the condition and conservation
treatment needs of 14 historic quilts made during the 18th and 19th centuries. The quilts will be
rehoused in a newly built storage facility. |
Lyman House Memorial Museum
Hilo, HI
Marie D. Strazar
Amount: $5,000
Consultation with a conservator to redesign the collections
storage space in the museum. The material culture collections document the ethnographic, natural,
social, cultural, and religious history of Hawai'i.
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Manchester Historic Association
Manchester, NH
Eileen O’Brien
Amount: $3,099
A general preservation survey that will
identify preservation needs and make recommendations for the future care of the collections
that support the study of local history and include 900 linear feet of records of a textile
mill that was the major industry in Manchester for 100 years.
Mariners Museum
Newport News, VA
Lester Weber
Amount: $52,732
The arrangement and description of 12 cubic
feet of records created by Edwin Tappan Adney on North Native American history and
culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
Mars Hill College
Mars Hill, NC
Kathryn D. Newfont
Amount: $5,000
A preservation assessment of the college’s archival
collections of almost 2,500 cubic feet that focus on the history of the Appalachian region.
Martha’s Vineyard Historical Preservation Society
Edgartown, MA
Jill H. Bouck
Amount: $4,625
The purchase of storage materials and the rehousing
of 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century account books kept by Island business people and town
officials who recorded names, goods, sales, and payments made by residents for services and products.
Mary Holmes College
West Point, MS
Evelyn K. Bonner
Amount: $4,035
A preservation assessment of archives and books related
to the college’s institutional history as well as materials on sharecroppers in Mississippi,
the Civil Rights Movement, and African American life in the South since the 1890s.
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore, MD
Mary Herbert
Amount: $4,831
The purchase of lignin-free envelopes and buffered board
to construct phase boxes in which to house 2,400 pamphlets and 550 books dated 1849 or earlier
that are related to the history of Maryland and to the history of slavery and the Civil War.
Massachusetts Archives
Boston, MA
Martha Clark
Amount: $159,393
The conservation of six volumes comprising
4,000 documents relating to colonial life from 1679 to 1769. |
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
North Adams, MA
Linda Kaufmann
Amount: $3,278
A preservation assessment of humanities collections,
including a rare book collection and special collections related to local history,
the history of the printing industry and graphics arts, and the college’s archives. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Deborah G. Douglas
Amount: $3,349
The purchase of archival supplies to rehouse a collection
of photographic negatives related to the work of the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War
II and a conservation assessment to devise a long-term storage plan for this collection. |
Massachusetts National Guard Museum and Archive
Worcester, MA
Leonid E. Kondratium
Amount: $3,110
A preservation assessment of the collections
that date back to 1778 and include records of local militias and extensive records of
military activity in the Mexican War, the Civil War, and both World Wars. |
McDaniel College
Westminster, MD
Barbara J. O’Brien
Amount: $3,995
Attendance at three one-week sessions on the preservation
and conservation of archives at the Preservation Management Institute at Rutgers University. |
Medford Public Library
Medford, MA
Barbara Ellen Kerr
Amount: $3,079
A preservation assessment of archives, books,
and pamphlets related to19th- and 20th-century local, state, and regional history. |
Mescalero Apache Tribe
Mescalero, NM
Donna R. Stern-McFadden
Amount: $1,393
Attendance at preservation workshops organized by New
Mexico’s Commission of Public Records. The tribe’s holdings include a variety of media, such as digital
records, photos, videos, audiotapes, and paper and provide information on archaeological and historic
sites, cultural places, objects, plant gathering areas, landscapes, language, oral traditions, and customs. |
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
Jerry L. McBride
Amount: $2,412
A preservation assessment of collections of folk music
recordings from the 1930s through the 1960s that document the Anglo-American ballad tradition of New England. |
Middletown Springs Historical Society, Inc.
Middletown Springs, VT
David P. Wright
Amount: $4,870
Constructing museum storage shelving, racks, and bins to preserve artifacts that document the history of southwestern Vermont. |
Mississippi Humanities Council
Jackson, MS
Willis Lott
Amount: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state.
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Missouri State Archives
Jefferson City, MO
Lisa Fox
Amount: $175,000
To support the conservation treatment of St.
Louis Civil Court records that document westward expansion during the territorial
and early statehood period, 1790-1830. |
Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden
Portsmouth, NH
Barbara M. Ward
Amount: $5,000
The installation of lighting controls for the protection of furniture, paintings,
textiles, and room furnishings dating from 1780 to 1830. |
Museum at Warm Springs
Warm Springs, OR
Carol Leone
Amount: $4,947
Training workshops in preservation and the costs of preservation supplies
for the museum’s cultural and artistic artifacts and for the archives
of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon. |
* Federal Matching Funds
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