National Historical Publications & Records Commission

Nebraska

Records Projects

University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE
$150,000 to support a collaboration with Great Plains Black History Museum to arrange and describe the museum’s archival collection, 115 cubic feet of material dating from 1870 to 2015 that documents the development of the Black community in Omaha, Nebraska, and more broadly in the Great Plains. (RH-104785)

Nebraska State Historical Society, Omaha, NE
$148,492 to support History Nebraska’s project to convert its existing collection descriptions by migrating approximately 1,400 government record and manuscript finding aids from non-EAD documents into ArchivesSpace; oversee the migration of the remaining 1,500 finding aids in the collection; and link the finding aids to born-digital and digitized assets to Preservica, which currently contains over 470,900 digital assets. (RH-103576-23)

Nebraska State Historical Societ, Lincoln, NE
$11,975 to support the Nebraska Historical Records Advisory Board’s statewide needs assessment and sharing the results with allied organizations and groups in the state. (RC-103493-23)

Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE
$13,994 to support basic funding for the state historical records advisory board, including a Traveling Student Archivist Program in partnership with the University of Nebraska-Omaha Library Science program. (RC10219-14)

Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE
$10,991 to support the work of the Nebraska Historical Records Advisory Board, including the development of a traveling student archivist program.(RC10107-11)

Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE
$4,244 to support a review of progress on its state historical records advisory board's strategic plan, "Preserving Our Past, Insuring Our History for the Future". (RC10075-09)

Office of the Capitol Commission, Lincoln, NE
$27,440 for a survey and inventory of the archival holdings of the Nebraska Capitol Collections. (RA10043-07)

Nebraska State Historical Records Advisory Board, Lincoln, NE
$10,000 for a State Board Administrative Support Grant. (2004-106)

Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE
$10,000 for state board administrative support. (2002-080)

Board of Regents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
$10,065 for its George Cather Ray Collection Microfilming Project to microfilm a collection of materials from relatives of Willa Cather relating to her works. (2002-062)

Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE
$43,407 for its Collections Guide and Survey Project to conduct a survey of some 25 percent of the Society's manuscript and audiovisual collections and produce collection-level guides. (2001-093)

Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE
$4,099 to fund the administrative expenses of the Nebraska board for two years. (2000-029)

Nebraska State Building Division, Lincoln, NE
$17,573 for an eight-month project to process and describe 4, 860 drawings and blueprints documenting the construction of the state's capitol. (97-058)

Nebraska State Historical Records Advisory Board, Lincoln, NE
$13,562 for a two-year project to implement selected high-priority recommendations from the board's strategic plan. (97-007)

Nebraska State Historical Records Advisory Board, Lincoln, NE
$13,739 for a planning project to be conducted over a 17-month period. During the grant period the board will reactivate itself by holding six meetings with various constituent groups to discuss records issues and developing a set of objectives that can be used to create a state-wide strategic plan under a subsequent planning project. (95-026)

Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE
$23,166 to rehouse approximately 6,500 images from the MacDonald Photographic Studio Collection, print significant images not previously printed, produce continuous-tone microfiche of images, and create finding aids to the collection. (90-001)

Nebraska State Historical Records Advisory Board, Lincoln, NE
$18,511 to analyze the current condition of historical records in the state, identify problems, frame potential solutions, and outline actions that can be taken. (81-122)

Western Heritage Museum, Omaha, NE
$22,544 to preserve and make available the Bostwick-Frohardt Photograph Collection documenting the growth of Omaha and the activities of its citizens from 1902 through the early 1940s. (81-008)

Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE
$5,978 for its paper conservation programs, including surveys of records storage practices in local governments, on-site consultation, records preservation, and disaster planning seminars for local officials. (80-111)

Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE
$14,566 to develop an in-house paper conservation program and a conservation consultation service. (79-077)

Adams County Historical Society, Hastings, NE
$12,057 to arrange and describe textual and photographic records relating to Adams County and its environs and to prepare a guide to the society's holdings and records in situ relating to the history of Adams County. (79-025)

Subtotal (Records Projects)    $451,403

 


Publications Projects

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

$437,416 for the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive. (2021-24)

 

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

$506,956 to support the Walt Whitman Archive. (2010-13, 2022)

 

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

$32,472 for an abridged edition of the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (2000)

 

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

$5,817 for the Papers of Charles E. Bessey. (1981)

 

Nebraska State Historical Society

Lincoln, NE

$6,800 for microfilming the Nebraska Farmers and Alliance Papers. (1966)

 

Nebraska State Historical Society

Lincoln, NE

$15,785 for microfilming the Nebraska Collection: the Robert W. Furnas Papers, 1844-1905, the Samuel Maxwell Papers, 1866–1906, and the J. Sterling Morton Papers. (1965)

 


Subventions

 

University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE

$20,000 subvention to publish the Moravian Spring Mission Among the Cherokee. (2004-05)

 

Subtotal (Publications Projects)    $1,025,263


Total     $1,476,666

 

 

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