Wisconsin
Records Projects
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$37,846 to support the work of the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board for two years to carry out the annual state-wide Governor’s Archives Awards and provide up to six annual professional development scholarships; sponsor two sessions each year at the Wisconsin Local History and Historic Preservation Conference; complete a “landscape mapping process” to identify archival institutions and scopes of collections state-wide to prepare for the 2024-2029 board strategic plan. (RC-104652-24)
Our Lives Media, Madison, WI
$250,000 to support research, collection of materials, and digitization of records regarding the passage of Wisconsin’s 1982 Gay Rights Bill, AB 70, and relevant copycat legislation in other states. (ED104698-23)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$103,063 to support a project at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research to process approximately 237 cubic feet from four collections: the film critic and programmer Amos Vogel, the founding editors of Jump Cut, the feminist editor Elfrieda Abbe, and the Wisconsin Film Festival. (RH-10354-23)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$500,000 to support a project to modernize the Society's digitization services, to digitize and make available online 60,000 pages of manuscript material and 4,000 hours of audiovisual materials. (ED-103536-22)
Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI
$42,956 to support the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board, including sponsorship of the Governor’s Archives Awards, six professional development scholarships, two archival-themed sessions each year at the statewide Local History and Historic Preservation Conference, two digitization workshops for local history practitioners in partnership with Wisconsin Library Services, and a new strategic plan for 2023-2028. (RC103371-22)
Wisconsin Library Services, Madison, WI
$80,300 to support a partnership among the Wisconsin Library Services, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and Recollection Wisconsin to support digital readiness in small and under-resourced local historical societies and historic preservation organizations across the state of Wisconsin. Through workshops, demonstrations at the statewide Digital History Fair, consultations, and other resources, the collaborative plans to create a Digital Readiness Community of Practice that provides the knowledge, tools, resources, and infrastructure to digitize, manage, and provide online public access to archives and historical records. (RJ-103067-20)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$38,976 to support the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board’s programming, including three workshops each year at the statewide Local History and Historic Preservation Conference, four workshops for municipal and county government record custodians, sponsorship of the Governor’s Archives Awards, and award 12 professional development scholarships. (RC102984-20)
Wisconsin Library Services, Madison, WI
$22,547 to develop a community-driven strategic planning process to design an Archives Collaborative to increase the capacity of small, rural, under-resourced, and underrepresented repositories to create, manage, and share digitized historical resources. Collaborating partners include Wisconsin Library Services, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and Recollection Wisconsin, a statewide digital collections consortium. (RJ102847-19)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$79,538 to support access to Wisconsin’s early legal records through the Citizen Petition Access and Digitization Project, which will process citizen petitions submitted to the Wisconsin legislature from 1836 to 2009 (a total of 120 cubic feet). The project will then scan and make available online half of the petitions from the territorial period, 1836-1890, including all petitions related to African Americans and Native Americans, and create an online exhibition and classroom curriculum kits featuring select petitions.(RH102790-19)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$12,847 to support one year of the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board’s programs, including finalizing a strategic plan that will guide the board’s work through 2021, Professional Development scholarships to make training more affordable for archivists, and Governor’s Archives Awards for achievement, innovation, and advocacy. (RC100070-17)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$24,000 to support a one-year project to address the goals outlined in the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board's current strategic plan by publishing an online guide to best practices for records storage and awarding training scholarships, and to develop a new plan for the next five years. (RC10261-16)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$166,667 to support Wisconsin State Preservation of Electronic Records, a project to implement a sustainable electronic records workflow and transfer management system in select state agencies. (RG50003-15)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$25,266 to support basic funding for the state historical records advisory board and its training and awards programs. (RC10205-14)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$68,553 to support, on behalf of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, a 15-month project to process the manuscripts and audio and video recordings of art agent and documentary filmmaker Emile de Antonio. (RH50014-12)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$29,345 to support the Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board's efforts to promote training related to electronic records best practices, provide training in archival management, and improve collaboration among archivists. (RC10125-12)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$254,043 to support a three-year project to continue offering the Archives Leadership Institute begun in 2008 through 2012. The Institute provides 25 mid-career archivists training in leadership assessment, project management, fundraising, and advocacy. (DG10009-09)
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, Keshena, WI
$11,380 to support an archival consultant to assist in creating a strategic plan to guide the development of a centralized tribal archives program. Located 45 miles northwest of Green Bay, the Menominee is developing a museum, archives, and collections management program for an estimated 4,000 cubic feet of historical records. (RB50076-09)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$89,756 to support planning for the collection of post-WWII Wisconsin manuscripts. (RC10006-08)
Regents of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$197,532 to support a three-year project to design and implement the Archival Leadership Institute. (DL10002-07)
Aldo Leopold Foundation, Inc., Baraboo, WI
$110,530 to support a two-year project to digitize the papers of 20th century ecologist and philosopher Aldo Leopold. (RD10006-07)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$14,380 in partial support of the Wisconsin SHRAB's administrative expenses. (RS10016-07)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$47,426 to support of the Wisconsin SHRAB's statewide planning. (2005-030)
Board of Regents, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$45,643 on behalf of the Center for the Study of the Upper Midwestern Cultures, to identify and describe multiformat ethnographic materials that document traditional folk cultures in the Upper Midwest. (2005-073)
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
$82,844 for the Western States Catholic Indian Records Survey. The purpose of the project is to identify, describe, and, where appropriate, preserve Catholic Church-related records about native people in the United States which are held by institutions and repositories in 14 Western states. These records comprise over 400 years of documentation. (2004-072)
Wisconsin Veterans Museum, Madison, WI
$110,278 to arrange, rehouse, and describe some 500 linear feet of records documenting the experiences of Wisconsin veterans from the Civil War to the present. (2003-075)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Golda Meir Library, Archives and Special Collections, Milwaukee, WI
$51,500 for a fellowship in archival administration. (2003-036)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$20,000 in partial support of the Wisconsin SHRAB's administrative expenses for two years. (2003-030)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$79,247 for its Photograph Collections Cataloging Project to produce collection-level descriptive entries for 3,000 processed photograph lots and to load those descriptions into an online catalog. (2002-065)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$103,841 to catalog and rehouse 2, 000 photograph collections totaling approximately 750, 000 images. (2000-074)
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI
$48,094 to catalog and create user copies of oral history tapes of various groups living in western Wisconsin. (2000-070)
Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board, Madison, WI
$100,359 for its Archives Repositories Assessment and Mentoring Project to strengthen the board's partnerships with statewide associations of records creators, keepers, and users. (2000-001)
Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board, Madison, WI
$53,328 for a 21-month project to build on and implement key parts of its recently completed five-year strategic plan by strengthening partnerships between the board and three statewide organizations: the Wisconsin Council for Local History, the Wisconsin Association of Public Librarians, and the Wisconsin Registers in Probate Association. (97-012)
Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board, Madison, WI
$64,542 funding for an 18-month planning project to produce a strategic plan for managing and preserving Wisconsin's historical records and to publicize the plan. (95-007)
Manitowoc Submarine Memorial Association, Manitowoc Maritime Museum, Manitowoc, WI
$5,318 for a one-year project to make accessible 85 acetate-base films (ca. 1942-84) depicting various shipping, boat-building, and recreational boating activities on the Great Lakes by transferring them to videotape. (94-053)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board), Madison, WI
$250,000 for a two-year regrant project focused on revitalizing the state's local government records program. The project would provide regrants to local governments to develop records management programs; prepare records inventories and retention schedules; develop disaster plans; microfilm records; create local records manuals; process and describe archival records; and conduct planning studies. (92-115)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Division of Archives and History, Madison, WI
$42,500 for a fellowship in archival administration. (92-072)
Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
$29,440 to develop an archival program in conjunction with a records management program for the archdiocese's records. (91-123)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
$8,900 in partial support of a fellowship in archival administration. (90-076)
Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
$43,500 to develop a coordinated archival collecting and accessioning program for repositories in the Milwaukee area. (89-060)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$68,764 to evaluate the physical condition of and appraise, organize, and provide access to television newsfilm, ca. 1955 to 1972, from four television stations in Madison. The main goal of the project is to develop and test appraisal and description guidelines for the newsfilm. (88-115)
Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board, Madison, WI
$13,500 to support travel and meeting expenses for the board, to plan statewide historical records programs, and to improve the review process for NHPRC records proposals. (87-114, 87-114S)
Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee, WI
$44,944 to develop a municipal archives program for Milwaukee. The project will evaluate records retention schedules, arrange and describe existing holdings, and enter records series information into the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) database. (87-097)
Midwest Archives Conference, Madison, WI
$7,075 to plan, implement, and evaluate a group of special "hands-on" workshops. Topics to be covered include archival automation, slide/tape and video production, basic conservation, and microfilm techniques. (86-019)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
$35,118 to preserve and describe still photographs documenting television, film, and theater productions of historical significance nationwide. (85-119)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$55,502 to develop and test a comprehensive, coordinated archives and manuscripts collecting program for the society and its Area Research Center network. (84-120)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$12,775 for a working conference of representatives of institutions involved in development and implementation of the MARC AMC (MAchine Readable Cataloging Archival and Manuscripts Control) format, resulting in a report outlining institutional practices and discussing areas of conflict and consensus. (84-095)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$70,000 to develop and implement an integrated on-line information management system for the administration of its archives and manuscript holdings. (84-052)
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI
$20,419 for its pilot project to train Native American archivists. (82-059)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$33,360 for the second and final phase of a project to develop an archival program for machine-readable public records in the state. (81-144)
Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board, Madison, WI
$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. (81-133)
University of Wisconsin System, Madison, WI
$40,006 for a cooperative project within the university system to survey and inventory records in three major areas (financial, personnel, and student aid) and to produce a manual on the appraisal and disposition of these records. (81-065)
City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
$28,460 to establish retention and preservation criteria for tape recordings of city government activities. (81-043)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
$30,000 to locate, accession, and process records of the Milwaukee area Polish-American community. (80-062)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
$34,595 to develop procedures to schedule, accession, and retrieve information from machine-readable records of Wisconsin state agencies. (80-008)
School Sisters of St. Francis, Milwaukee, WI
$8,240 to accession and process the Generalate administrative records of the order, 1874-1966. (79-126)
Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
$29,067 for a historical records assistance and awareness program, in which established Milwaukee area repositories assist other records custodians in the preservation and administration of historical records. (79-046)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$99,650 for the Midwest State Archives Guide Project, an interstate cooperative project to develop common descriptive methods and a shared information base for public records in the state archives systems in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.(78-114, 80-071)
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Racine, WI
$30,461 for a records survey of manufacturing firms in Racine and Kenosha, Wisconsin. (78-055)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$53,415 for a project, in cooperation with the Departments of Administration, Local Affairs, and Development, to appraise and develop retention schedules for municipal records in Wisconsin, and to work with local officials toward improved municipal records programs. (78-049)
Subtotal (Records Projects) $4,086,636
Publications Projects
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$125,000 to support editorial work on its collaborative digital edition project, ¡Presente!: Documenting Latinx History in Wisconsin. A collaboration with the Wisconsin Historical Society and community partners, this bilingual, digital edition is dedicated to highlighting the stories of Latinx communities in Wisconsin. (PL-103633-24)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$120,000 to support planning for ¡Presente!: Documenting Latinx History in Wisconsin through a Collaborative Digital Edition. The University of Wisconsin, in partnership with the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective and the Wisconsin Historical Society, are developing a collaborative digital edition on the Latinx community within Wisconsin. (PL103343-22)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
$8,029,198 for the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Adoption of the Bill of Rights (1965-2022) and the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790 (1966-1984)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$35,730 for The Wisconsin Progressives: the papers of Richard T. Ely, Edward A. Ross, Charles McCarthy, Charles R. Van Hise, and John R. Commons. (1980)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$34,000 for the American Federation of Labor and Unions records. (1975)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$16,450 for the Draper Manuscripts. (1976)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$4,153 for the Robert La Follette Papers. (1972)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$27,285 for the Papers of Henry Demarest Lloyd. (1971)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$14,445 for the Morris Hillquit Papers. (1968)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$21,140 for the Socialist Labor Party Records and Socialist Party of America Papers. (1967-68)
Subventions
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$225,410 for subvention support for the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. (1980-2010)
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI
$41,958 for subvention support for the Documentary History of the First Federal Elections. (1985-90)
Fellowships
Sean Patrick Adams (Ph.D. candidate, University of Wisconsin), Madison, WI
$41,250 for a fellowship in historical editing at the Frederick Douglass Papers. (1997)
Professional Development
University of Wisconsin-Madison/Wisconsin History Foundation, Inc, Madison, WI
$509,270 for support of the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents. (1990-2010)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$53,475 to publish "A Compendium of Practice for Historical Documentary Editing." (95-098)
Subtotal (Publications Projects) $9,298,764
Total $13,385,400
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