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June 6, 2006
Spring Meeting Recommended Grants
Archives & Records Projects
Grants support efforts to preserve and make public important historical records held by local archives.
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL $148,183
To support "Bringing Alabama's African American History to Light," a partnership with Tuskegee University to organize, describe, and make available approximately 670 linear feet of currently inaccessible African American collections on both campuses.
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA $51,540
To support its efforts to develop a comprehensive archives and records management program.
ONE Archives, Los Angeles, CA $194,860
To arrange, describe, preserve, and make public some 767 linear feet of materials constituting 99 archival or manuscript collections relating to efforts to obtain recognition and subsequently to establish rights for gay and lesbian Americans in the 20th century.
Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA $67,487
To support the second year of the Kem Lee Photograph Archives Project.
Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY $33,549
To support the second year of its Registers & Rosters: Processing Business and Military Records in the Bluegrass State project.
Northeastern University, Boston, MA $84,729
To support the second year of its African American and Latino History project.
Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA $143,050
To process the personal papers of Sterling Clark, businessman and art collector, and the institutional records of the institute. The Sterling Clark Papers, which cover the period 1912-1950 and total 83 linear feet, include correspondence, diaries, journals related to art purchases, records of early appraisals of works of art, receipts, and glass plate negatives.
President and Trustees of Bates College, Lewiston, ME $65,000
To preserve and make available the Edmund S. Muskie Papers.
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ $58,652
To support the second year of its processing project for the Papers of American Economists.
Seneca Nation of Indians, Salamanca, NY $30,000
To support the development of its tribal archives and records management program.
Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, OH $61,152
To support the second year of its World Jewish Congress Collection Project.
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC $75,633
To arrange, describe, and make more accessible to the public 93 manuscript collections consisting of 238 cubic feet of records relating to medical history and the health profession in South Carolina.
Harris County, Houston, TX $42,369
To appraise, arrange, describe, and develop a protocol for providing access to confidential or restricted information for about 500 cubic feet of records documenting the functions of the county's Juvenile Probation Department from circa 1907 - 1960.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX $101,995
To support a three-year project to process and make available 402 linear feet of archival material.
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX $48,565
To support, on behalf of its Vietnam Archive, a project to process and preserve 135 linear feet of the papers of the Families of Vietnamese Political Prisoners Association (FVPPA).
American Heritage Center, Laramie, WY $142,901
To support the second year of the Center at the University of Wyoming in its "Beating Backlogs through Cataloging and Deaccessioning Project."
