Kentucky Grants
NHPRC Grants by State and Territory
These Kentucky grants span 1976 - 2008.
Records Projects
Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory Board, Frankfort, KY
$12,583 to support basic state board activities through a State and National Archives Partnership grant. (RC10029)
Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory Board, Frankfort, KY
$10,000 in partial support of the board's activities for one year. (RS10039-08)
Appalshop, Inc., Whitesburg, KY
$83,365 to support a two-year project to process, re-house, and make accessible the audio-visual recordings of Mountain Community Television (1972-78) and the Headwaters Television series (1981-85). (RA10012-07)
Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory Board, Frankfort, KY
$10,000 in partial support of the board's activities for one year. (RS10009-07)
Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY
$33,549 to support the second year of its Registers and Rosters: Processing Business and Military Records in the Bluegrass State project. (RA-5604-06)
Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory Board, Frankfort, KY
$10,000 in partial support of the board's activities for one year. (2006-026)
Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory Board, Frankfort, KY
$10,000 in partial support of the board's activities for one year. (2005-003)
Kentucky History Society, Frankfort, KY
$76,641 to process and catalog 470.5 cubic feet and 95 volumes (22 collections) relating to Kentucky's business and military records. (2005-035)
Berea College, Berea, KY
$89,280 for the Council of the Southern Mountains Records Project, to arrange, preserve, and describe 218 cubic feet of manuscript, printed material, and photographs that comprise the records of the Council of the Southern Mountains for the years 1970-1989. This material will be added to existing records dating from 1912 to 1970. (2004-097)
Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory Board, Frankfort, KY
$10,000 in partial support of the board's activities for one year. (2004-012)
University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, KY
$160,438 to arrange and
describe the Lexington Herald-Leader Photographic Collection. (2003-065)
Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory Board, Frankfort, KY
$2,125 in partial
support of the Kentucky Board's administrative expenses. (2003-031)
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
$32,623 for the Kentuckiana Project of the
State-Assisted Academic Library Council of Kentucky, to undertake planning and training
in preparation for the creation of Kentucky's Commonwealth Virtual Library. (99-002)
Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY
$53,468 to arrange and describe approximately
238 linear feet of manuscript materials representing approximately 629 collections
(1700s-present). (96-090)
The Filson Club Historical Society, Louisville, KY
$35,745 to convert descriptions of
approximately 1, 100 manuscript and photographic collections to the USMARC AMC (United
States MAchine Readable Cataloging Archival and Manuscripts Control) format and to load
them into RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network), the statewide Kentucky Department
for Libraries and Archives database, and the Filson Club's online catalog. (95-090)
Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY
$3,195 to develop a plan for creating an
integrated automation program for access to its library collections, which include manuscripts,
photographs, maps, vertical files, books, periodicals, and microfilm. The plan will address
retrospective conversion, the creation of an online public access catalog for all categories of
material, and future automation needs for the library in the new Kentucky History Center.
(95-085)
University of Louisville Research Foundation, Louisville, KY
$55,968 to appraise, arrange
and describe the personal papers of eight 20th-century Kentucky women (approximately 176.5
linear feet) for access by researchers, to make these collections and the university's other
resources in women's history more widely known among regional and national research
communities, and to publicize the collections to underscore the institution's commitment to
preserving and making accessible women's manuscripts collections, with the goal of encouraging
prospective donors to donate their papers to the university. (94-107)
The Filson Club, Louisville, KY
$3,619 to hire a consultant to develop a plan for
automating access to its collections, which will integrate bibliographic data from its manuscript,
photographs and prints, and library departments. (93-081)
Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY
$3,000 to hire a consultant to determine the best preservation
methods for photonegatives from the William R. Mullins collection. (90-129)
Kentucky Oral History Commission, Frankfort, KY
$29,447 to prepare and publish a guide
from a database of descriptions of the state's oral history collections. (90-002)
Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY
$59,610 for a two-year project to develop
archives and records management programs for the university and to begin collecting historical
materials documenting the education of African Americans in the upper south region. (86-046)
National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA),
Frankfort, KY
$14,450 to revise and expand the organization's state archives and records
management terminology and reporting standards. (85-105)
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY
$143,869 to develop an
archives and records management program for machine-readable records in state government.
(85-069)
Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, KY
$49,414 for a two-year project to develop an
archives and records management program for its institutional records, and to develop its
collection of manuscripts. (85-049, 86-051)
National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA),
Frankfort, KY
$24,000 to prepare a systematic study of the preservation needs of the nation's
state archives and to prepare a report on these needs which can be used as the basis for further
planning and national action. (85-013)
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
$10,718 to evaluate, arrange, describe, and
microfilm the historical records of the Louisville Defender, an African-American newspaper
founded in 1933, and the personal papers of its editor, Frank L. Stanley, Sr. (84-119)
Mount Saint Joseph Female Ursuline Academy, Maple Mount, KY
$20,000 for an archival
development and training project. (84-119)
Kentucky Department for Library and Archives, Frankfort, KY
$198,300 for re-grants to
city and county governments in the state. The Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory
Board will review applications for projects. (83-057)
Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory Board, Frankfort, KY
$22,319 to analyze the
current condition of historical records in the state and recommend necessary action. (81-117)
Centre College of Kentucky, Danville, KY
$22,535 to implement an archival program for
the college. (81-090)
Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY
$67,058 for a two-year joint project with the
Kentucky State Archives to arrange, describe, and make available the papers and records of
Kentucky governors, 1792-1927. (80-022, 81-049)
City of Louisville, Louisville, KY
$30,000 to establish an archives and records control
center for the city. (79-072)
Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory Board, Frankfort, KY
$353,241 for a
comprehensive statewide survey and guide of archives and manuscript repositories. (79-024,
81-045)
Berea College, Berea, KY
$35,978 for preservation and processing of the Southern
Appalachian Archives and the Berea College Archives. (77-112)
Subtotal (Records Projects) $ 1,786,538
Publications Projects
University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, KY
$49,000 for subvention support for the
Papers of Henry Clay. (1982-92)
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
$379,760 for the Papers of Henry Clay.
(1976-90)
Project Completed
Transylvania University, Lexington, KY, and
the Filson Club, Louisville, KY
$107,616 for the Correspondence of Constantine Rafinesque. (1981-86)
Formerly Funded by NHPRC
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
$25,802 for the D.W. Griffith
Papers, 1897-1954. (1981)
Project Completed
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
$96,042 for the Letters of Louis Dembitz Brandeis. (1977-80)
Project Completed
Subtotal (Publications Projects) $658,220
TOTAL $2,444,758
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