Virginia Grants
NHPRC Grants by State and Territory
These Virginia grants span 1976 - 2008.
Records Projects
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
$160,700 for the Archives of the New Dominion, to work with the African American, women's activist, gay and lesbian, and Hispanic communities to determine the historic value of their work and to encourage them to make their documentary history available to repositories. (2004-101)
City of Petersburg, VA
$8,094 to duplicate 251 nitrate negatives made by commercial photographer William E. Lum, Jr., that document the history of Petersburg and the surrounding community from 1925 to 1952. (2003-093)
The Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
$38,909 to support the restoration of selected sound recordings generated by WRVA Radio and the creation of compact disks of this material for reference purposes. (2003-074)
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
$9,421 in partial support of the board's administrative expenses for 21 months. (2001-033)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$43,500 to fund an NHPRC archival administration fellowship in the Special Collections Department of the University of Virginia Library for academic year 2000-2001. (2000-051)
National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors Education and Research Foundation, Arlington, VA
$15,650 for a project to develop an archives and records management program. (98-032)
National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, Arlington, VA
$4,500 to engage the services of a consultant for assistance with the development of an archives and records management program. (97-044)
Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Richmond, VA
$50,000 to preserve and
make accessible records in private, local, and state repositories throughout Virginia by providing
training throughout the commonwealth in disaster preparedness and records description and by
supporting the development of disaster plans and holdings' inventories at individual repositories.
(96-071)
Virginia Home for Boys in Richmond, Richmond, VA
$10,000 to conserve, arrange,
describe, and microfilm the historical records of the home, consisting of Registers of Boys
beginning in 1846, minutes, financial reports, and other records. (95-093)
David R. Kobrin, Alexandria, VA
$35,272 to complete a book designed to help
secondary-level history and social studies teachers, pre-service teachers and teacher educators
understand the importance and advantages of using primary historical documents as teaching
tools. (94-120)
Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society, Clifton Forge, VA
$65,811 for a one-year project
to appraise, arrange, clean, create descriptions in the MARC AMC (MAchine-Readable
Cataloging Archival and Manuscripts Control) format, and microfilm approximately 350
corporate minute and record books; and to survey, appraise, re-house and create a computerized
description and processing plan for about 1,100 cubic feet of administrative records documenting
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. (94-091)
The Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA
$6,884 to preserve 260 daguerreotypes and
ambrotypes (ca. 1845-60) in the museum's cased-image collection. (93-092)
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
$30,720 to inventory, arrange, and
describe the Adele Goodman Clark Papers. (93-083)
Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA
$40,572 to arrange, describe, microfilm, and
develop a guide to the T.T. Perry Collection, comprising 54 linear feet of historical manuscripts
and records documenting western Virginia and eastern West Virginia from the mid-eighteenth
century to the mid-twentieth century. (93-004)
Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Richmond, VA
$7,608 to support the
travel and meeting expenses of the board, including the development of a statewide strategic plan
addressing archives and manuscripts programming in Virginia. (92-116)
County of Shenandoah, Woodstock, VA
$18,755 to arrange and prepare for microfilming
the county's circuit court case files and loose court papers. (90-118)
People-to-People Health Foundation, Millwood, VA
$34,592 to establish an archives and
records management program. (89-090)
Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Richmond, VA
$50,000 for a regrant
program directed at the state's public and private manuscript repositories. The project will
develop a statewide preservation plan for archives and manuscripts and support
conservation/preservation surveys in up to 40 manuscript repositories. (89-035)
National Recreation and Park Association, Alexandria, VA
$53,121 to establish a records
management program for the association's records and to complete the processing of its pre-1965
records located at the Social History Welfare Archives of the University of Minnesota. (88-060)
Arlington County Public Library, Arlington, VA
$15,738 to arrange and describe local
history materials in the Arlington Community History Archives. The collection documents the
history of Arlington's African-American community, school desegregation, the work of
neighborhood civic associations, and the early history of National Airport. (88-058)
City of Richmond, Richmond, VA
$2,918 for consulting services relating to development
of a city archives and records management program. (87-096)
MacArthur Memorial, City of Norfolk, Norfolk, VA
$42,768 to begin preservation
microfilming of the papers of General Douglas MacArthur in the holdings of the memorial.
(86-126)
Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Richmond, VA
$5,000 for travel and
meeting expenses to allow the state board to carry out its grant review and statewide archival
planning missions. (86-111)
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston, VA
$61,049 for a two-year project to create an archival program in its central office and for its state
and regional affiliates. (85-041, 86-062)
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
$15,425 to produce preservation and reference
microforms of nitrate negatives in the Federal Theatre Project collection. (84-137)
National Center for State Courts, Williamsburg, VA
$50,000 to gather information on court
record retention schedules, prepare comparative matrices, and publish the results. (83-059)
Fairfax County Government, Fairfax, VA
$10,000 for its project to develop a
comprehensive archives and records management program for Fairfax County through records
surveying and scheduling, development of a manual, and treatment of archival records. (81-151)
Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Richmond, VA
$14,000 to analyze the
current condition of historical records in the state, identify problems, frame potential solutions,
and outline actions that can be taken. (81-132)
Newport News Public Library System, Newport News, VA
$8,237 to assist in processing
the records of the Old Dominion Land Company. (81-089)
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA
$14,384 to duplicate endangered
photographs documenting 18th-century American architecture and the restoration of Colonial
Williamsburg. (80-081)
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA
$9,150 to microfilm for preservation early
records of the Academy, 1839-65. (78-128)
Hollins College, Hollins, VA
$2,441 to arrange, describe and microfilm the papers of Ella
Reeve "Mother" Bloor, who was involved in various radical movements in the late-19th and
early-20th centuries. (78-061)
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
$3,621 for the Research Center for the Federal
Theatre Project to survey, appraise, and accession selected materials in private hands relating to
the Federal Theatre Project of the New Deal period. (78-040)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$2,110 for preservation microfilming of the
university's original Thomas Jefferson papers. (77-051)
Subtotal (Records Projects) $940,950
Publications Projects
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, Williamsburg, VA
$20,000 for the St. George Tucker Law Papers. (PH10035)
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
$199,549 for The Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 (2007-08).
University of Mary Washington, Fredricksburg, VA
An endorsement of the Papers of James Monroe project (2005).
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$3,683,579 for the Papers of James Madison. (1976-2008)
Project In Progress
Project Web Site
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$1,888,824 for the Papers of George Washington. (1976-2008)
Project In Progress
Project Web Site
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
$231,740 for the Charles Carroll Family Papers. (1993-2008)
Project In Progress
George C. Marshall Research Foundation, Lexington, VA
$1,580,051 for the Papers of George Catlett Marshall. (1977-2008)
Project In Progress
Model Edition Partnership Web Site
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$937,839 for the Presidential Recordings Project. (2000-2008)
Project In Progress
The University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$40,000 for subvention support for the Lincoln Legal Papers. (through 2006)
The University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
$650,855 for subvention support for the Papers of George Washington and the Papers of James Madison. (through 2008)
Linda A. Fisher, Annadale, VA
$63,125 to edit for publication the Diary of Joseph J. Mersman. (2004-082)
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA
$696,083 for the Papers of John Marshall. (1976-2005)
Project In Progress
Project Web Site
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison (2001)
NHPRC Endorsed
Association for Documentary Editing, Charlottesville, VA
$58,832 to plan and conduct two seminars in electronic publishing. (97-068)
Ash Lawn-Highland, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
$16,148 for the Papers of James Monroe. (1991)
Project Completed
Martha King, Williamsburg, VA
$25,000 for a fellowship in historical editing at the Papers of Henry Laurens, University of South Carolina. (1991)
Subtotal (Publications Projects) $10,091,620
TOTAL $11,032,570
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