Florida Grants
NHPRC Grants by State and Territory
These Florida grants span 1976 - 2009.
Records Projects
Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services, Tallahassee, FL
$19,600 to support the state historical records advisory board,
including its publication of an updated Directory of Florida Archival and Manuscripts Repositories. (RC10071-09)
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
$72,650 to support a project to digitize material from six archival collections related to the exploration, development, and conservation of the Florida Everglades between 1879-1929. (RD10018)
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL
$19,968 in
support of the board's administrative expenses for two years. (RS10007-07)
Florida Division of Library and Information Services, Tallahassee, FL
$95,000 to support
the Florida Local Historical Records grants project. (2005-017)
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL
$20,000 in
partial support of the board's administrative expenses for two years. (2005-018)
Florida Division of Library and Information Services, Tallahassee, FL
$10,000 to support
the Florida Board's work for one year. (2004-009)
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
$135,662 for its Civil Rights Heritage
Collections Project to arrange and describe portions of its civil rights collections.
(2003-060)
Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services, Tallahassee,
FL
$38,060 to provide disaster planning and recovery training and to establish a
consortium to coordinate statewide efforts to address disaster and disaster recovery
issues. (2003-015)
College of Medicine, J. Hills Miller Health Science Center, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL
$58,681 for its Medical History Center and Archives Project to arrange and
describe records relating to the origins and development of the J. Hills Miller Health
Science Center. (2003-001)
Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, Miami, FL
$87,070 for its South Florida
Television Preservation and Access Project to preserve and make accessible three
collections that comprise some of the earliest recordings of local television in South
Florida. (2002-058)
Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services, Tallahassee,
FL
$15,400 in partial support of the Florida Board's administrative expenses for two
years. (2002-012)
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL
$100,000
($100,000 matching) for its Regrant Project to address the goals in the board's recently
revised strategic plan. (2001-017)
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL
$10,000 in
partial support of the board's administrative expenses for one year. (2001-012)
Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services,
Tallahassee, FL
$9,900 to fund the administrative expenses of the Florida board for
one year. (2000-028)
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL
$25,000 for its
Development and Training Regrant II Project, which seeks to provide education and
training programs for archivists, records managers, and records custodians, and to
support archives and records management programs leading to improved management of
historical records. (98-080)
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL
$15,500 to
evaluate and revise its 1994 strategic plan in order to address new and changing issues
faced by the state's archival and records community. (98-008)
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL
$50,000 to support
education and training for archivists and records custodians and for program development
leading to improved management of historical records. Half of the grant funds will be regranted
to new and established records programs to assist them in assessing and addressing their program
needs. The other half of the grant funds will be regranted to organizations and institutions to
conduct or sponsor workshops relating to archival administration and historical records
management. (96-079)
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL
$14,150 for a planning
project to be conducted over a two-year period. In addition to holding six meetings across the
state during the grant period, the board will continue to develop its relationships with
constituents, increase its role as a leader in historical records activities, establish an
advocacy/advisory committee to assist the board in the evaluation and implementation of its
strategic plan, and assess new and changing conditions in the state. (95-027)
City of Miami, Office of the City Clerk, Miami, FL
$110,000 to develop and implement a
comprehensive archives and records management program. (94-122)
Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services (Florida State
Historical Records Advisory Board), Tallahassee, FL
$11,778 for state board travel and meeting
expenses. (93-008)
Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library, Tampa, FL
$58,500 to complete the
preservation of the 18,000-item Burgert Brothers Photographic Collection by duplicating,
printing, and cataloguing 4,000 nitrate and acetate photonegatives not currently available to the
public. (92-143)
Florida Department of State, Division of Library & Information Services, Bureau of
Archives and Records Management (Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board),
Tallahassee, FL
$150,000 ($50,000 matching) for a two-year regrant project focusing on the
state's local organizations to develop archival and records management programs; plan for
archival facilities; prepare preservation and disaster preparedness plans; process collections;
prepare finding aids; conduct preservation microfilming; hire consultants; and develop databases describing holdings. (92-069)
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL
$9,330 for travel and
meeting expenses to allow the state board to carry out its grant review and statewide archival
planning missions. (91-005)
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
$22,654 to preserve, arrange, and describe records
and microfilm copies that are related to the university's agricultural program at the
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and its predecessors. (89-097)
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
$42,242 to develop an
archivesand records management program for the museum's records and its extensive collection of
manuscripts and records relating to John Ringling, the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey
Circus, and American circus history. (89-077)
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL
$51,656 to study issues
surrounding information technology and public records in the State of Florida. (89-055)
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL
$5,000 for support of
travel and meeting expenses of the board. (89-034)
Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, Miami, FL
$61,594 to appraise, preserve, and
make available newsfilm from WTVJ in Miami dating from 1949 to the present. The newsfilm
is the earliest surviving local television newsfilm from South Florida. (88-098)
Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library, Tampa, FL
$54,450 to duplicate nitrate and cellulose
acetate negatives from the Burgert Brothers Photographic Collection. The photographs document
the growth of Florida, especially the Tampa Bay area, from 1918 to the early 1960s. (88-094)
City of Tampa, Tampa, FL
$61,017 to develop a city archives program, the first of its type
in Florida. The project will prepare and implement a plan to locate, identify, and accession
Tampa's archival records; review city records schedules; and strive to increase public awareness
and use of the records. (87-072)
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL
$5,000 for travel and
meeting expenses to allow the state board to carry out its grant review and statewide archival
planning missions. (87-036)
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
$85,814 for a two-year project to establish a
university archives and records management program. Founded in 1853, the University of
Florida is the oldest university in the state and the largest in the Southeast. (85-093, 86-097)
City of Tampa, Tampa, FL
$3,000 for consulting services relating to establishment of a city
archives. (85-001)
Florida State Historical Records Advisory Board, Tallahassee, FL
$25,000 to analyze the
current condition of historical records in the state, identify problems, frame potential solutions,
and outline actions that can be taken. (83-083)
Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL
$3,000 to assist the Black Archives Research
Center in a project to collect, preserve, and make available the records of Florida's former
all-black school system. (81-067)
Florida Division of Archives, History and Records, FL
$48,715 to arrange, describe, and
preserve Florida territorial and pre-20th century state records, including many records formerly
thought to be lost. (80-057)
Subtotal (Records Projects) $ 1,605,391
Publications Projects
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
$344,071 for the Black Abolitionist Papers.
(1977-92)
Project Completed
José Ignacio Avellaneda (Ph.D., University of Florida, 1990), Gainesville, FL
$25,000 for
a fellowship in historical editing at the Journals of Diego de Vargas project at the University of
New Mexico. (1992)
University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
$119,777 for the Papers of Panton, Leslie, and Company. (1976-83)
Project Completed
Subtotal (Publications Projects) $ 488,848
TOTAL $ 2,094,239
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