Colorado
Records Projects
Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$39,649 to support a two-year initiative by the Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board to serve archival collections and institutions in rural areas of the state that reflect underserved and under-documented communities. The board will continue its successful regrants program by offering up to 5 awards of $5,000 each; send a traveling archivist to the rural Four Corners area in southwestern Colorado to conduct a survey of collections and archival materials and to conduct two-day “Archives 101” workshops. (RC-103638-24)
Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration, Denver, CO
$39,649 to support the Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board, including a regrant program, a traveling archivist to visit the Four Corners area to identify collections related to underrepresented groups, and workshops focusing on the preservation of, and access to, historical records. (RC-103498-23)
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
$149,430 to process 47 linear feet, digitize 7,216 pages, and provide online access to the finding aid and digital images from the collection of Joe Ben Wheat, archaeologist, curator, teacher, and author known for his expertise on textiles of the Navajo and other tribes in Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. (RH-103411-22)
History Colorado, Denver, CO
$250,696 to support a two-year project to process and describe 253 linear feet of the Mazzulla Collection and digitize approximately 50,000 items from the collection. Fred Milo Mazzulla (1903-1981) was born in Trinidad, Colorado to Italian immigrants and became an amateur western historian, photographer, and writer, amassing a collection of more than 250,000 photographic images of the American West. (RM103390-22)
Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration, Denver, CO
$40,000 to support the Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board, including a regrant program, scholarships for archival training, and workshops focusing on the preservation of, and access to, historical records. (RC103344-22)
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
$116,916 to support a project to digitize approximately 192,700 pages of 3,854 silent film scores from Grauman’s Theatres. The collection includes complete sets of photoplay music and performance parts for full orchestra with performers’ and theater managers’ markings and indicia that provide information about the way this body of music was used to accompany silent movies, from 1912 to 1929. (RH-103202-21)
Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration, Denver, CO
$40,000 to support the Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board, including a regrant program focused on digital access to collections, scholarships for archival training, and workshops focusing on the preservation of, and access to, historical records. (RC103107-21)
Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration, Denver, CO
$40,000 to support the Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board’s programming, including up to six regrant projects that have a digital access component, site visits for all of the regrant projects, a two-day workshop focusing on preservation and access, and scholarships for attending professional workshops on archival practices. (RC102970-20)
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
$93,826 to support a project to process and digitize 34.5 linear feet, plus glass plate negatives and lantern slides, of the Earl Morris Collection. A pioneer of Southwest archaeology and the founding father of the archaeology collections and archive at the Colorado University Museum of Natural History, Morris was an archaeologist for the American Museum of Natural History and the Carnegie Institution. He led expeditions to New Mexico and Arizona for the University of Colorado from 1913-1916, again in 1922, and in 1924 and 1938. Morris was an expert in Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) material culture, worked on Basket-maker period sites near Durango and the La Plata district, both in Colorado, and actively published on these topics. (RH102760-19)
Colorado State Library, Denver, CO
$40,000 to support the work of the Colorado State Historical Records Advisory Board, including a regrants program to assist repositories with their efforts to preserve, digitize, and provide access to historical records, a site visit or coaching session for each regrants project, a workshop directed toward those in need of training in basic archival theory and best practices, and scholarships for workshops and other training programs related to processing, preserving, and providing access to digital records.(RC102723-19)
Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$40,000 to support the Board’s programs, including a regrant program, two “Archiving Colorado 101” workshops, and a mentoring program that will offer one-on-one assistance through a series of site visits. (RC100242-18)
Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$$40,000 support one year of the Board’s programs, including a regrant program, two “Archiving Colorado 101” workshops, a mentoring program, and travel funds. (RH100022-17)
Colorado State Archives, Denver, CO
$121,448 to support a two-year project to convert born-digital audio recordings of the Colorado General Assembly's 2002-2011 legislative sessions from an obsolete format to a supportable and open-source format. (RG50010-16)
Colorado State Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$40,000 to support a one-year project to continue the Board's regrant program, offer workshops on the basics of archives, increase its outreach efforts, and promote Archives Month. (RC10272-16)
History Colorado, Denver, CO
$48,044 to support a two-year project to arrange and describe four large photograph collections documenting the development of modern Colorado and the American West in the mid-20th century. The applicant also will digitize and post online 800 photographs that staff will select for their research value and potential research use. (RH50143-15)
Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$28,000 to support basic funding including board meetings, workshops and webinars, and a statewide regrant program. (RC10213-14)
Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$15,250 to support basic funding including four board meetings and a statewide regrant program. (RC10163-13)
Colorado State Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$35,000 to support the Colorado State Historical Records Advisory Board and a statewide regrant program. (RC10119-12)
Colorado State Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$25,000 to support the work of the Colorado Historical Records Record Advisory Board, including a statewide regrant program. (RC10095-11)
University of Denver, Denver, CO
$130,330 to support a two-year project to develop and test open-source records managements software (Liaison) to help archivists conduct records surveys, develop and distribute retention schedules, and maintain consistent information about permanent and impermanent records. (DS50014-10)
Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
$49,840 to support the processing of five collections held by its Western History and Genealogy Department that document social activism by minorities in the American West. (RP50006-08)
Colorado State Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$19,200 to support a Basic State and National Archival Partnership Grant. (RC10038-08)
Naropa University, Boulder, CO
$90,000 to support a two-year project to develop a records management program and process the university's archives. (RA10006-07)
Bessemer Historical Society, Pueblo, CO
$34,812 for its Colorado Fuel and Iron Archives Project, to copy additional 1,000 reels of 16mm microfilm of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company records onto archival-quality 35mm microfilm, contingent upon the availability of additional Fiscal Year 2001 funds. (2005-079)
Colorado State Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$19,700 in partial support of the board's administrative expenses for two years. (2005-013)
Colorado State Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$14,584 in partial support of the board's administrative expenses for two years. (2002-016)
Bessemer Historical Society, Pueblo, CO
$35,700 for its Colorado Fuel and Iron Archives Project, to copy 1,000 reels of 16mm microfilm of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company records onto archival-quality 35mm microfilm, contingent upon the availability of additional Fiscal Year 2001 funds. (2001-095)
Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
$43,500 to host an archival administration fellowship. (99-035)
Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, CO
$13,944 to preserve an historically important collection of Alaska ethnographic images dating from the 1920s. (97-047)
Colorado State Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$50,800 for a two-year planning project. The board intends to evaluate progress made on the recommendations of its 1982 state assessment report, identify critical records issues needing additional attention, gather information about historically significant or endangered records in local repositories via distribution of a questionnaire and personal contacts, and hold a series of nine public meetings in order to gather input from constituents across the state. (97-028)
Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO
$65,185 to arrange and describe the 192 linear feet of manuscripts (1870-1976) and 25,000 photographs (1871-1959) that comprise the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Collection, thus providing first-time comprehensive subject access. (95-073)
Colorado State Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$9,053 for a planning grant to provide travel and meeting support for the board and a consultant to assist the board in developing a more comprehensive statewide planning effort in the future. (94-045)
The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
$46,579 to survey approximately 4,310 feet of inactive records (ca. 1874 to present) located throughout the college, create retention schedules, and begin accessioning records series of historic and enduring value into the archives, including entering series descriptions into the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and CARL (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries) databases. (93-065)
Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO
$67,673 to process 190 collections and to create MARC AMC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging Archival and Manuscripts Control) format records for all 1,500 of its manuscripts collections. (92-119)
The Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO
$4,973 to hire an archives and records management consultant and an audio preservation consultant. The consultants will make recommendations for the establishment of a records management and archives program and for the preservation of and access to audio tapes documenting readings, lectures, and panel discussions that have taken place at the school. (92-102)
University of Colorado Board of Regents, Denver, CO
$34,954 to process the records of the National Municipal League, ca. 1920-80, held by the University of Colorado at Denver's Auraria Library. (91-117)
Colorado State Archives, Denver, CO
$8,524 to support the travel and meeting expenses of the Colorado State Historical Records Advisory Board. (91-060)
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
$48,862 for the Colorado Historical Advisory Board to develop and promote a program of workshops and on-site professional archival assistance for local manuscript repositories in the state. (90-035)
Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO
$33,343 to appraise, accession, arrange, and describe the files of the Boulder Daily Camera, part of the Boulder Historical Society's A.A. Paddock Collection. Computerized access to the material will be provided through the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL). (89-098)
Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO
$85,580 to provide access to the collections of local history manuscripts and photographs deposited in the library by the Boulder Historical Society. The collection documents life on the Front Range and in the Boulder area from 1859 to the present. (87-110)
Colorado State Historical Records Advisory Board, Fort Collins, CO
$9,999 for travel and meeting expenses to allow the state board to carry out its grant review and statewide archival planning missions. (86-066)
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
$2,135 for a consultant to plan for the care of mining reports, company records, photographs, and other materials related to the history of mining in the school's possession. (85-117)
Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
$47,330 to improve research access to the collections in its Western History Department through entry of information into the OCLC (On-line Computer Library Center) national online catalog system and creation of a microfilm guide. (85-035)
Colorado State Historical Records Advisory Board, Denver, CO
$21,921 to analyze the current condition of historical records in the state and to frame a strategy for developing a statewide program. (81-110)
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
$26,280 to accession and process historical records of Colorado agricultural organizations. (81-085)
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
$21,675 to survey the records of Colorado agricultural organizations as an initial step toward establishing a central repository for agricultural records in the state. (80-070)
Total $2,439,684
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