Missouri
Records Projects
State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO
$500,000 to support a project to preserve, arrange and describe four key sets of Missouri Congressional papers: U. S. Senator Christopher S. Bond, U.S. Senator Roy D. Blunt, U.S. Congressman William L. Hungate, and U.S. Congressman William J. Randall. (ED-104676-2323)
Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO
$347,612 to support a project to arrange and describe the papers of U.S. Representative Dewey Short, U.S. Representative Bill Emerson, U.S. Senator John Danforth, and U.S. Senator Thomas Eagleton. (ED-103527-22)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$7,297 to support the Missouri Historical Records Advisory Board, including two in-person meetings, review of applications to the state-funded Local Records Grant Program, and prepare for a strategic planning process in 2024. (RC-103510-23)
Missouri Humanities Council, St. Charles, MO
$20,000 to support a planning grant for a collaborative, led by the Missouri Association for Museums and Archives, to identify and make available records documenting Missouri’s Native American history. Other collaborative members include the Missouri Humanities Council, the Kansas City Public Library, and the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at Washington University. (RJ103337-22)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$19,650 to support the Missouri Historical Records Advisory Board, including eight photograph preservation workshops and imaging events, print and distribute a photograph preservation best practices poster, conduct a records repository directory survey, and distribute a six-generation genealogical chart. (RC103124-21)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$12,422 to support the Missouri Historical Records Advisory Board’s programming, including scholarships to a Family History Conference to 20 genealogical and historical societies and providing 2,000 additional copies of a six-generation genealogy chart for distribution at workshops, conferences, and other professional gatherings. (RC102960-20)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$9,372 to support the work of the Missouri State Historical Records Advisory Board, including 14 on-demand workshops covering a wide range of topics that will be offered at locations across the state; the creation of a fillable, six-generation genealogical chart that will be distributed at a variety of conferences, workshops, and other events; and develop a plan of work for the period 2020-2022. (RC102730-19)
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
$27,228 to support a project to digitize and disseminate 32 filmed interviews, portions of which were used by William Miles for his Black Champions television documentary. Totaling 18 hours, the tapes feature such prominent sports figures as Curt Flood, Arthur Ashe, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilma Rudolph, and Floyd Patterson, providing insight into sports and civil rights from the early 1900s to the 1980s. The complete interviews and three-hour documentary will be disseminated online, along with 32 biographies. (RH100322-18)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$6,534 to support the Missouri Historical Records Advisory Board’s programs, including free intermediate-level genealogy workshops at seven locations across the state, and a plan of work for 2019-2021.(RC100252-18)
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
$34,433 to support a two-year project to digitize and stream online 932 audio cassettes and 16 audio reels containing speaking engagements and public readings from approximately 700 poets in St. Louis from 1969-2005, and to digitize approximately 2,300 ancillary materials. (RH10080-17)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$21,679 support one year of the Missouri Historical Records Advisory Board’s programs, including records preservation workshops and conservation workshops in seven locations across the state, an informational poster on records preservation best practices, and travel. (RC100079-17)
Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO
$69,044 to support Picturing 1930s St. Louis: Sievers Studio Collection Project, a two-year project to rehouse, arrange, and describe the 1930s series of photographs from the Sievers Studio collection and digitize 3,000 images that depict the people, industry, and places during Prohibition and the Great Depression. (RH50199-16)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$11,853 to support one-year project at the Missouri Historical Records Advisory Board to offer introductory-level best practices workshops on disaster preparedness and reference services, distribute an informational poster on disaster preparedness best practices, sponsor an oral history workshop, and create a new plan of work for board activities through 2018. (RC10269-16)
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
$150,000 to support the "Eyes on the Prize Interview Digitization and Reassembly Project," to make available approximately 95 hours of previously inaccessible interview footage created for the award-winning documentary series on America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. (RD10186-15)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$31,690 to support a two-year project to test a mechanism for transferring electronic records to the Missouri State Archives from select partner agencies. (RG50006-15)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$55,867 to support basic funding for the state historical records advisory board, including several workshops on topics such as digitization and the preservation and delivery of electronic records and two best practices posters. (RC10222-14)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$29,925 to support a one-year project to create a comprehensive plan to establish an electronic records archives for the long-term preservation of permanent electronic state government records. (RE10053-13)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$70,000 to support the Missouri State Historical Records Advisory Board and a statewide regrant program.(RC10131-12)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$67,808 to support basic activities, a series of 10 workshops related to records preservation and description, and a regrant program that will support up to 30 institutions in their efforts to preserve and provide access to historical records. (RC10081-10)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$148,577 to digitize the case files of the Supreme Court of Missouri, 1821-1865, including papers on hearings on issues of slavery, eminent domain, and westward expansion. (RD10051-10)
Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$64,930 to support a "State of the State's Records" presentation at the Missouri Conference on History, and a regrants program for as many as 30 projects across the state. (RC10073-09)
Missouri Office of Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$19,466 to support basic activities of the state historical records advisory board. (RC10030-08)
Missouri Office of Secretary of State, Jefferson City, MO
$5,817 to provide basic administrative support for the state historical records advisory board. (RS05679-06)
Friends of the Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO
$4,983 to provide basic administrative support for the state historical records advisory board. (RS05679-06)
Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
$49,260 to arrange, describe, and create finding aids using Encoded Archival Description for 17 collections (293 cubic feet) of the University Archives. (2005-050)
Friends of the Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO
$2,419 to provide basic administrative support for the state historical records advisory board.
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
$108,000 for the Eye on the Prize Film Preservation Project. (2004-086)
Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO
$55,332 for a regrant project to preserve and make accessible the state's historic records and to promote archival education and cooperative strategies among records keepers. (2004-001)
Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO
$42,670 to hire electronic records consultants to develop and conduct two presentations and seven workshops on electronic records issues. (2003-013)
Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
$130,999 for its Archives and Records Survey Project to conduct a records survey of the 25 offices of the University as a first step in establishing a university archives and records management program. (2002-059)
Missouri State Historical Records Advisory Board. Jefferson City, MO
$300,000 ($300,000 matching) for up to three years for its SHRAB Regrant Project to preserve and make accessible Missouri's historic records and to promote archival education and cooperative strategies among records keepers. (2001-029)
University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO
$19,229 to arrange, describe, and make accessible the archaeological investigation papers of Carl H. Chapman. (2000-106)
Friends of the Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO
$9,295 to fund the administrative expenses of the Missouri board for one year. (2000-030)
William Woods University, Fulton, MO
$4,610 for an archival consultancy to help the University, Westminister College, and the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library develop plans to manage historically significant materials and to establish archival and records management programs. (99-072)
Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
$58,620 for a project to arrange and describe 18 of the most important collections from its Ozark Labor Union Archives (OLUA). (98-043)
Curators of the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
$57,860 to process the records of the architectural landscape and city planning firm of Hare and Hare, held by the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. (96-078)
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO
$15,456 for a six-month project to process the Joseph Ewan Papers. (94-123)
Missouri State Historical Records Advisory Board, Jefferson City, MO
$22,720 for a planning grant to sustain and increase its activities, assess progress on implementing the recommendations of its 1987 assessment report, and develop a five-year strategic plan, which will include specific approaches for addressing the key problems of electronic records and judicial records. (94-035)
Secretary of State, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO
$121,113 to upgrade and automate descriptions of its holdings. (93-104)
Jewish Federation of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
$34,398 to accession, arrange, and describe approximately 350 cubic feet of materials (74 collections). (93-003)
Concordia Historical Institute, Clayton, MO
$27,500 to appraise, arrange, and describe the papers, ca. 1924-82, of Walter A. Maier and his assistant, Eugene Bertermann, two figures involved with the development of religious radio broadcasting. (91-137)
The Nelson Gallery Foundation, Kansas City, MO
$85,776 to implement an archival and records management program for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art by surveying records, establishing retention schedules, and processing materials of archival value. (91-133)
Secretary of State, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO
$3,296 to hire a consultant to provide guidance in the automated description of the holdings of the Missouri State Archives. (91-100)
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO
$80,096 to establish an archival and records management program. (91-037)
Missouri State Historical Records Advisory Board, Jefferson City, MO
$7,500 to support the board's travel and meeting expenses. (90-039)
St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, St. Louis, MO
$3,274 to duplicate and preserve glass plate, nitrocellulose, and early diacetate negatives produced by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in the 1920s and 1930s. (88-107)
St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, St. Louis, MO
$15,000 to preserve nitrate negatives in the John W. Barriger III collection on American railroads. The negatives provide unusually valuable documentation of 20th-century U.S. railroad history. (86-135)
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
$2,600 for consultation on the school's historical photographs and architectural drawings. Washington University has the nation's oldest medical school west of the Mississippi River. (86-117)
Missouri State Historical Records Advisory Board, Jefferson City, MO
$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. (86-115)
University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO
$30,640 to preserve, microfilm, and catalog photoprints representing the best American photojournalism from 1943 to the present. The photos are winners of the Pictures-of-the-Year competition, sponsored by the university's school of journalism and the National Press Photographers Association. (85-123)
St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, St. Louis, MO
$76,150 to arrange and describe the Barriger Railroad Papers Collection, assembled by John W. Barriger, III, over a 60-year career in railroading. (84-133)
Webster Groves Historical Society, Webster Groves, MO
$2,290 for consulting services to advise on the design of the society's new meeting room/archives building, to evaluate collection and acquisition policies, and to assist in planning a local records survey. (84-132)
Kansas City Museum Association, Kansas City, MO
$60,695 to develop a coherent program and access system for its archives and manuscripts. (84-074)
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
$32,493 to establish an archives and records program for the museum. (81-153)
Webster County Court, Marshfield, MO
$4,000 for a consultant to evaluate the county's records needs and make recommendations for the records' preservation and maintenance. (81-100)
University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
$30,032 to identify and preserve historical records relating to African-American history in St. Louis City and County. (80-052)
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO
$13,378 to process the papers of George Engleman, a leader in 19th-century American botany, and Henry Shaw, St. Louis entrepreneur and philanthropist, both of whom were instrumental in developing the Missouri Botanical Garden. (79-120)
University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO
$1,177 to preserve and process selected correspondence and notes in the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection relating to John G. Neihardt's association with the Oglala Sioux Holy Man, Black Elk, and members of his family. (79-062)
TOTAL $3,269,065
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