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Vol. 25:1 ISSN 0160-8460 April 1997
NHPRC Recommends 64 Grants Totaling $2,783,717
On February 20 the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) recommended $1,592,684 for 29 continuing documentary editions projects; $86,710 for nine publication subvention grants; $149,835 for two state board regrant projects; and $786,687 for 19 records access projects. Also recommended was $80,801 for two projects to improve documentary editing, one of which is the 26th annual Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, and $87,000 for two archival and editing fellowships. The grant recommendations were made in response to more than $4,475,000 in requests.During the meeting, the Commission welcomed a new member. Howard P. Lowell, state archivist and records administrator of Delaware, now represents the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators.
In other business, the Commission approved a resolution of its Executive Committee to discuss the changes in the NHPRC strategic plan, revised in November 1996, at its next meeting, currently scheduled for June 19, 1997. [See related article, page 4.]
Regrant Projects
South Carolina State Historical Records Advisory Board, Columbia, SC: A conditional grant of $100,000 ($50,000 matching) to preserve and provide access to valuable historical materials in South Carolina's repositories of private papers and non-governmental archives. At least 90 percent of grant funds will be regranted.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Austin, TX: An outright grant of $49,835 to provide archival and records management training and program development assistance for records custodians throughout Texas. Ninety percent of grant funds will be regranted, with $20,000 allocated to the training component and $25,000 allocated to program development. Training regrant applicants must provide ten percent of the requested grant funds as cost sharing, and program development applicants must provide 25 percent of the requested amount as cost sharing.
Records Access Projects
Central Arkansas Library System, Little Rock, AR: A grant of $37,149 for a one-year project, in collaboration with the Aerospace Education Center, to arrange and describe a portion of the Jay Miller Aviation History Collection. The records will be processed, a printed finding aid prepared, and descriptions of the records entered into OCLC (Online Computer Library Center).
Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA: A grant of $121,815 for the first year of a two-year project to process a collection of more than 300,000 photographic negatives from the newspaper photo morgue of the San Francisco News-Call-Bulletin, 1916-1965, and to create finding aids for the collection using the Society of American Archivists' emerging standard for Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, CO: A grant of $13,944 to preserve an historically important collection of Alaska ethnographic images dating from the 1920s.
Government of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC: A grant of up to $2,500 to hire a consultant to assist with the development of a plan for establishing an archival program within the Recorder of Deeds Division.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: A grant of $40,000 for a 15-month project to process the architectural records of the Institute's David Adler Archive. A finding aid/ study guide will be published, and record descriptions will be made available through RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network).
Wichita Public Library, Wichita, KS: A grant of $2,040 for a six-month consultant project to develop a plan to preserve, describe, and provide access to 314 cubic feet of unprocessed archives and manuscripts relating to the history of Wichita and Sedgwick County.
Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA: A grant of $7,547 for a 12-month project to provide access to and preserve 1,735 negatives (1870-1937) contained in five collections.
Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD: A grant of $65,402 for a 17-month project to catalog two significant photograph collections relating to life in Baltimore from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Nebraska State Building Division, Lincoln, NE: A grant of $17,573 for an eight-month project to process and describe 4,860 drawings and blueprints documenting the construction of the state's capitol.
University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC: A grant of up to $5,000 for a one-year project to hire a consultant to assist with the development of a plan for an archives and records management program for the university's records and for the records of the Lumbee Tribe.
City of Manchester, Manchester, NH: A grant of $35,489 for a one-year project to continue an archival project to process and rehouse over 150 years of municipal records dating from the mid-19th century.
New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ: A grant of $41,322 for a one-year project to preserve, arrange, describe, and publicize 60 collections relating to the history of health care in New Jersey. The collections, comprising approximately 160 feet of records, cover a time span of more than 250 years dating from the mid-18th century.
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ: A grant of $55,206 for an 18-month project to organize, describe, catalog, and provide more effective access to three major collections and seven smaller collections (comprising 631 linear feet) in its Seeley G. Mudd Library relating to Cold War era liberalism. The major collections include the Fund for the Republic Archives, Freedom House Archives, and the records of Franklin Book Programs, Inc.
New York City Department of Records and Information Services, New York, NY: A grant of up to $31,725, contingent upon the availability of additional FY 1997 grant funds, for a one-year project to transfer approximately two million feet of film created by WNYC (the city's municipal broadcast station) to videotape.
The Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY: A grant of $65,000 for an 18-month project to provide enhanced access to 1,076 linear feet of the society's holdings. Project staff will arrange and describe those records which have not previously been processed and prepare collection data forms or other finding aids for those records which have been arranged but only inadequately described. MARC AMC records will then be created and made available through RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) and OCLC (Online Computer Library Center).
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI: A grant of $109,541 for a two-year project to establish an archives and records management program for the school's records.
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: A grant of $69,353 for an 18-month project to process 15 historically significant manuscript collections relating to the history of South Carolina and the South in the South Caroliniana Library, a special collections library of the university. The collections, with a total volume of 535 linear feet, cover topics in women's history, slavery and race relations, the Civil War, and political and military history.
National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, Arlington, VA: A grant of $4,500 to engage the services of a consultant for assistance with the development of an archives and records management program.
Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, WA: A grant of up to $61,580 for a two-year project to survey the images comprising the Seattle Post-Intelligencer collection (ca. 293,000 negatives; 1924-1972).
Projects to Improve Documentary Editing
Wisconsin History Foundation, Madison, WI: A grant of $21,969 for the 1997 Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents.
Association for Documentary Editing: A grant of $58,832 to plan and conduct two seminars in electronic publishing.
Documentary Editing Projects and Subventions
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN: A grant of up to $73,573 for continuing work on The Papers of Andrew Johnson.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN: A grant of $41,041 for continuing work on the Correspondence of James K. Polk.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD: A grant of up to $68,899 for continuing work on The Samuel Gompers Papers.
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC: A grant of $23,167 for continuing work on Race, Slavery and Free Blacks: Petitions to Southern Legislatures and County Courts, 1776-1867.
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: A grant of $40,299 continuing work on The Papers of John C. Calhoun.
Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA: A grant of up to $19,110 for continuing work on The Papers of John Marshall.
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD: A grant of up to $37,777 for continuing work on The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower.
The American University, Washington, DC: A grant of up to $38,220 for continuing work on The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.
New York University, New York, NY: A grant to $182,738 for continuing work on The Papers of Margaret Sanger.
William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX: A grant of $82,108 for continuing work on The Papers of Jefferson Davis.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD: A grant of up to $95,189 for continuing work on Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation.
Queens College and the Research Foundation of the City University of New York, Queens, NY: A grant of up to $38,220 for continuing work on The Papers of Robert Morris.
Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA: A grant of $100,000 for continuing work on The Papers of Emma Goldman.
Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, RI: A grant of up to $70,229 for continuing work on The Nathanael Greene Papers.
University of Arizona, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, AZ: A grant of up to $38,954 for continuing work on the Civil/ Military series of Documentary Relations of the Southwest.
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: A grant of up to $73,500 for continuing work on The Papers of Henry Laurens.
George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, VA: A grant of $52,000 for continuing work on The Papers of George Catlett Marshall.
Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles, CA: A grant of up to $51,142 for continuing work on the Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers.
The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA: A grant of up to $14,332 for continuing work on The Papers of Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, IL: A grant of up to $63,000 for continuing work on The Lincoln Legal Papers: A Documentary History of the Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln, 1836-1861.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ: A grant of up to $42,955 for continuing work on The Papers of Thomas Edison.
West Vi rginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown, WV: A grant of $15,052 for continuing work on The Papers of Frederick Douglass.
Duke University, Durham, NC: A grant of up to $51,979 for continuing work on The Jane Addams Papers.
The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA: A grant of $7,750 for continuing work on The Salmon P. Chase Papers.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, GA: A grant of up to $53,508 for continuing work on The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ulysses S. Grant Association, Carbondale, IL: A grant of up to $66,732 for continuing work on The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ: A grant of $43,000 for continuing work on The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM: A grant of up to $45,148 for continuing work on The Journals of don Diego de Vargas.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN: A grant of up to $63,068 for continuing work on The Papers of Andrew Jackson.
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC: A grant of $8,499 for The Papers of John C. Calhoun, Vol. 24.
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM: A grant of $10,000 for The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, Vol. 4.
Kent State University Press, Kent, OH: A grant of $8,211 for The Salmon P. Chase Papers, Vol. 5.
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA: A grant of $10,000 for The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Vol. 10.
University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA: A grant of $10,000 for the Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. 10.
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL: A grant of $10,000 for The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 7.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD: A grant of $10,000 for The Papers of Thomas Edison, Vol. 4.
Cambridge University Press, New York, NY: A grant of $10,000 for Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, Series III, Vol. 1.
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA: A grant of $10,000 for The Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Vol. 2.
