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Seattle University
Seattle, WA
Janet Bishop
Amount: $5,000
A preservation survey that will identify preservation needs and make recommendations for a comprehensive preservation plan,
with particular emphasis on special collections.
Sheffield Historical Society
Sheffield, MA
Joanne E. Hurlbut
Amount: $5,000
A collection assessment,training, and the purchase of environmental monitoring equipment to preserve material culture collections that document the social and economic history of Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
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Slate Valley Museum Foundation
Granville, NY
Mary Lou Willits
Amount: $5,000
Consultation with a conservator who would provide on-site training and supervision of the museum’s staff and volunteers to relocate 1,500 artifacts to a new storage facility.
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Society of Architectural Historians
Philadelphia, PA
Damie Stillman
Amount: $67,202*
Research for eight volumes of Buildings of the United States,
a comprehensive series that documents the history of American architecture on a state-by-state basis.
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Somerville Museum
Somerville, MA
David M. Guss
Amount: $4,300
A general preservation assessment and preservation training for staff and volunteers to improve the
care of the museum’s material culture, art, and archival holdings, which focus on the history of the community.
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Southeastern Library Network, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Julie Arnott
Amount: $700,000
Preservation microfilming and cataloging of embrittled volumes on American history, literature,
religion, higher education, and economic development that are held by 16 libraries in eight southeastern states.
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Southeastern Library Network, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Julie Arnott
Amount: $580,000
A regional preservation field service program that provides preservation surveys, workshops, technical consultations, and educational materials to libraries and archives in the Southeast.
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Southern Oregon University
Ashland, OR
Mary Jane Cedar Face
Amount: $4,971
A preservation assessment of the institution’s holdings that include special collections of Shakespeariana, the literature of the Northwest, and materials focusing on Northwest Indian Tribes.
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Southern University and A & M College
Baton Rouge, LA
Emma B. Perry
Amount: $5,000
A preservation assessment to develop a long-term plan and the purchase of supplies
to preserve the archives collections of the John B. Cade Library at Southern University and A&M College.
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Southern Ute Cultural Center
Ignacio, CO
Lynn Brittner
Amount: $5,000
Consultation with a conservator to plan and implement a long-range conservation program, and to provide collections care training for Native American staff and volunteers.
Spelman College
Atlanta, GA
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Amount: $240,829
Training in basic archival practices and policies for staff at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Springfield Art Association
Springfield, IL
Erika L. Fitzgerald
Amount: $4,933
The purchase of supplies and shelving for the rehousing
of the Condell collection, which holds 660 artifacts from Japan, China,
Russia, Egypt, Mexico, Africa, India, Europe, and North America.
St. Cloud State University
St. Cloud, MN
Patricia Schenk
Amount: $4,111
A preservation assessment of the university’s archives and special collections,
which include materials relating to the history of the university as well as to literature,
theater, and Asian art. A long-term plan for preservation will be developed.
St. Petersburg College
St. Petersburg, FL
Susan Anderson
Amount: $3,000
A preservation workshop for the staff of the college library and
the purchase of archival supplies to preserve collections that
document the institutional history of two junior colleges.
Stockbridge Library Association
Stockbridge, MA
Barbara Allen
Amount: $4,932
The purchase of storage furniture to preserve the association’s
collections of rare books, archives, and material culture related to
local history and life, 1750 to the present.
Stonehill College
North Easton, MA
Gregory J. Galer
Amount: $4,843
Consultation with a conservator to develop a detailed,
comprehensive preservation plan and conduct on-site training
for the Ames Shovel Collection, which consists of 755 antique
shovels and 1,000 related objects dating from 1774 to the present.
Strong Museum
Rochester, NY
Patricia M. Tice
Amount: $700,000
The purchase of storage furniture and the rehousing of
480,000 objects that depict American life and the
national consumer culture of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer
Grand Island, NE
Karen M. Keehr
Amount: $5,000
A conservation assessment of a collection of glass-plate negatives
taken by photographer Julius Leschinky that chronicles life in a
Nebraska railroad community and his travels throughout the United
States and Europe from the 1890s until the 1920s.
Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum
Centerport, NY
Florence M. Ogg
Amount: $3,000
A preservation assessment of archives, photographs, and other materials
related to the life, times, and interests of William K. Vanderbilt, 1878–1944.
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Sweetwater County Historical Museum
Green River, WY
Ruth Lauritzen
Amount: $5,000
Consultation with a
conservator to assess storage
conditions and to update a long-range
conservation plan to preserve material
culture collections that document the
history of southwestern Wyoming.
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Syracuse University
Press
Syracuse, NY
Robert A. Mandel
Amount: $200,000
The completion of an encyclopedia of New York State.
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Talbot County Free Library
Easton, MD
Monique Gordy
Amount: $4,190
A preservation assessment and
assistance in developing a preservation
plan for a special collection of paperbased
materials—books, pamphlets,
maps, ledgers, photographs, clippings,
manuscripts, and ephemera—that
document life in Maryland, especially
on the Eastern Shore, from the 17th
century to the present.
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Tamastslikt Cultural Institute
Pendleton, OR
Malissa A. Minthorn
Amount: $5,000
A general preservation assessment of the collections, the environment, and the facility in order to
plan for long-range preservation and for disaster preparedness that will preserve primary source material relating to the history of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian reservation.
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Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
Susan Morehead
Amount: $5,000
The purchase of storage
furniture and environmental
monitoring equipment for the safety of
the records of folklife, folk music, artist
interviews, and folk art of Texas.
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
Eileen Johnson
Amount: $614,740
The purchase of storage
furniture and the rehousing of
archaeological collections, which
number 1.25 million objects and span
12,000 years of human occupation in
the southern Plains.
Thornton W. Burgess Society
East Sandwich, MA
Bethany S. Rutledge
Amount: $3,098
Staff attendance at a
preservation workshop and the
purchase of 165 book-storage boxes to
house the published work of Thornton
W. Burgess (1874–1965), author of
children’s books about wildlife and the
natural environment.
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Three Village Historical Society
East Setauket, NY
Karen L. Martin
Amount: $4,365
A preservation assessment of
humanities collections that include
paintings, furniture, shipbuilding tools
and instruments, textiles, and archival
materials related to the history of Long
Island, New York.
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Timber Lake and Area Historical Society
Timber Lake, SD
Edwina Mowrer
Amount: $4,500
A preservation assessment and the purchase of archival materials to preserve a genealogical collection documenting a Lakota and French
Canadian family that made significant contributions to the history of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.
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Tohono O’odham Nation
Sells, AZ
David L. Shaul
Amount: $2,500
A preservation assessment
of the manuscript, paper, and other
records related to Tohono O’odham
Indian tribal history and culture.
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Town of New Milford
New Milford, CT
George C. Buckbee
Amount: $1,154
The purchase of low-ultraviolet
fluorescent lighting as recommended
in a recent preservation assessment to
preserve the records of the town that
date from 1702.
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Trinity University
San Antonio, TX
Kristina Howard
Amount: $5,000
A visit by a consultant who will
complete a preservation assessment of
the general and special collections and
present a preservation workshop.
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Triton Museum of Art
Santa Clara, CA
Jemima Harr
Amount: $4,338
The purchase of environmental
monitoring equipment and storage
supplies to rehouse objects from the
museum’s collection, which is composed
of works by California and Bay
Area artists as well as art of Native
Americans of Northern California.
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Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, AL
Juanita M. Roberts
Amount: $5,000
A preservation assessment
of archives, manuscripts, and books
related to the institutional history of the
university as well as African American
history from the 1600s to the late 20th
century.
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Tuzzy Consortium Library
Barrow, AK
Andrew O. MacLean
Amount: $1,004
The purchase of archival
supplies to rehouse photographic prints
and negatives published in The Tundra
Times, the first statewide newspaper
owned by Alaskan Natives, which
focused on Alaskan Native history
from 1962 to 1997.
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Union Theology Seminary in Virginia
Richmond, VA
Dorothy G. Thomason
Amount: $3,630
A preservation needs assessment
and the drafting of a long-range plan
for the care of materials in all media.
University of Alabama
Huntsville, AL
Anne Coleman
Amount: $3,431
A preservation assessment
of two of the university library's
collections, which include books,
manuscripts, photographs, drawings,
maps, and other items related to
regional social, economic, and
architectural history from the 19th
century to the 1990s.
University of Alaska
Fairbanks, AK
Susan Grigg
Amount: $10,005*
The preservation and
cataloging of 132 reels of film created
from 1927 to 1965, comprising 56,600
feet of raw and produced documentary
footage on Alaska native peoples,
activities, and settings.
University of Alaska
Fairbanks, AK
Giulia Oliverio
Amount: $136,393
The creation of a hardbound
Alutiiq-English dictionary and an
electronic database containing about
9,000 lexical entries of this Eskimo
language spoken in Alaska and Siberia.
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Mary Elizabeth Graham
Amount: $4,050
Staff attendance at three
preservation workshops for training in
basic preservation procedures.
University of California
Berkeley, CA
Waverly B. Lowell
Amount: $279,203
Arranging, describing,
stabilizing, and rehousing the plans and
drawings, project files, and photographs
of architects and landscape architects
who worked in the Bay Area Modernist
tradition (1930-1980).
University of California
Berkeley, CA
James A. Matisoff
Amount: $327,000
The compilation of an
etymological dictionary and thematic
thesaurus of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, the
common ancestor of languages spoken
in China, India, and Southeast Asia by
more than one billion speakers.
University of California
Irvine, CA
Maria Pantelia
Amount: $11,150*
The restructuring of data
and development of an online search
and retrieval system for the
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae,
a database representing the entire
corpus of Greek literature from Homer
to the fall of Byzantium in 1453.
University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Steven J. Ricci
Amount: $25,187*
The creation and
administration of a two-year degree granting graduate program in Moving Image Archive Studies.
University of California
Riverside, CA
Henry L. Snyder
Amount: $75,000*
To support the addition
of the final 1,940 machine-readable
bibliographic records to the Early
English Serials component of the
English Short Title Catalog, a
special file in the Research Libraries
Information Network.
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Martha T. Roth
Amount: $50,000*
The completion of the
Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a
comprehensive dictionary of Akkadian,
the earliest known Semitic language,
which was recorded in cuneiform texts
from circa 2400 B.C. to 100 A.D.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Nancy Bartlett
Amount: $85,465
The arrangement and
description of six archival collections,
dating from 1880 to 1996, which
document the history and development
of modern American archaeology.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
William A. Gosling
Amount: $219,548
Preserving and creating
access to historical materials that are
related to America's involvement in the
Philippines from 1870 to 1920.
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University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Richard I. Ford
Amount: $4,008
Consultation with a
conservator who would assist in
developing a condition assessment of
150 anthropological artifacts located
in six exhibition cases depicting the
cultures of native peoples of North
America that have been on display in
suboptimal conditions for 40 years.
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
David J. Wishart
Amount: $8,100
To support the creation of the
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains.
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Steven M. Weiss
Amount: $135,871
The preservation of 1,340
hours of sound recordings related to
African American life and culture held
by the university’s Southern Historical
and Folklife Collections.
University of North Carolina
Greensboro, NC
Nancy M. Doll
Amount: $2,250
An assessment of the condition
and conservation treatment needs of
25 modernist paintings by Gregory
Ivy, the founder of the university's
Weatherspoon Art Museum.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Albert L. Lloyd
Amount: $112,790
The completion of the third
volume of a multivolume etymological
dictionary of Old High German
(circa 750 to 1150 A.D.).
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Steve Tinney
Amount: $302,000
The preparation of a
comprehensive dictionary of Sumerian,
the oldest known language to be
preserved in written form.
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
Curtis Austin
Amount: $280,500
The preservation of 200
audiotapes comprising 1,300 hours of
oral interviews, meetings, and speeches
documenting the Civil Rights Era in
Mississippi from 1944 to 1979.
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
JoAnne M. Deeken
Amount: $535,513
The cataloging of 4,000
newspaper titles as part of Tennessee's
participation in the U.S. Newspaper
Program.
University of Texas
Arlington, TX
Ann E. Hodges
Amount: $4,998
The purchase of archival
materials to rehouse photographs in
the W. D. Smith Inc., Commercial
Photography Collection which
documents the history of Fort Worth,
Texas, during the 1950s.
University of Texas
Austin, TX
David B. Gracy
Amount: $460,000
The education of
preservation administrators and
conservators in the care of library and
archival collections.
University of Texas
Austin, TX
David B. Gracy
Amount: $5,750*
The education of preservation
administrators and conservators in the
care of library and archival collections.
University of Texas
Austin, TX
Harold W. Billings
Amount: $263,188
The preservation
microfilming of 356 Mexican
newspapers comprising 145,000 pages,
published between 1810 and 1899.
University of Texas
Austin, TX
Thomas F. Staley
Amount: $113,187
The processing and
cataloging of 210 linear feet of design
portfolios from B. J. Simmons & Co.,
a London theater and British film
costumier, which document the history
of theater and film from 1857 to 1964.
University of the State of New York
Albany, NY
Mary Redmond
Amount: $580,525
The cataloging of 5,600
newspaper titles and the preservation
microfilming of 804,000 pages of
deteriorating newsprint, as part of
New York’s participation in the U.S.
Newspaper Program.
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Antonette P. Healey
Amount: $67,000
The preparation of 2,000
entries for the Dictionary of Old
English, a historical dictionary based
on the entire surviving corpus of records
written in English between 650 and
1150 A.D.
University of Washington, Seattle
Seattle, WA
Laurel Sercombe
Amount: $4,000
Consultation with a curator of musical instruments to assess preservation needs for 297 instruments
in the university’s ethnomusicological collection.
Utah State University
Logan, UT
Noel A. Carmack
Amount: $2,637
The purchase of archival
supplies and storage furniture to
rehouse collections of 19th-century
government documents that include
serial sets, American State Papers,
Bureau of Ethnology reports, atlases,
and maps.
Valley Forge Military Junior College
Wayne, PA
Jata S. Ghosh
Amount: $3,390
A preservation assessment of
archives, photographs, books, and other
materials related to military history
and military life in the United States.
Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
Christine Barr
Amount: $160,000
The arrangement, description, digitization, and dissemination via the Internet of audio recordings and related documentation of the history and culture of New
England.
Vermont Ski Museum
Stowe, VT
Meredith M. Scott
Amount: $5,000
Consultation with conservators to design an appropriate storage space for collections that focus on the history of skiing. A consultant will also lead a workshop on preservation for staff and volunteers.
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
Patricia P. Selinger
Amount: $5,000
The purchase of light filters and
protective window film to preserve book
and archival collections that focus on
the history and literature of Virginia.
Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, VA
Paulette F. Schwarting
Amount: $5,000
The purchase of supplies for the
rehousing of broadsides, sheet music,
and rare almanacs that date from the
1600s to the late 20th century.
Wenham Museum
Wenham, MA
Tracey deJong
Amount: $4,796
The purchase of preservation
supplies and equipment to monitor
environmental conditions in the
museum’s storage and exhibition areas
and in the interiors of two historic
structures.
Wentworth-Coolidge Commission, Inc.
Portsmouth, NH
Molly Bolster
Amount: $4,920
Consultation with a
conservator to develop a plan for
shielding the windows of this historic
house in order to protect the interior
from the damaging effects of light.
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon, WV
Kathleen A. Parker
Amount: $4,740
The purchase of storage
materials to rehouse the library’s
books, pamphlets, maps, archives, and
manuscripts related to such topics as
the history and culture of Appalachia,
the Methodist Church, Abraham
Lincoln, and Pearl Buck.
Western Reserve Historical Society
Cleveland, OH
Suzanne Buchanan
Amount: $3,765
Consultation with a
conservator who will advise on the
design of a storage facility for paintings,
prints, and drawings that depict the
history of the Western Reserve region.
* Federal Matching Funds
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