Grants to Preserve and Create Access to Humanities Collections

American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
The creation of digital images of 17,400 ethnographic artifacts and associated manuscript pages, photographs, drawings, and watercolors from Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Australia. The images and accompanying documentation will be added to the online database of the museum's anthropology holdings.

Barnes Foundation, Merion Station, PA
The processing of 200 linear feet of the institution's archives and the personal papers of its founder, Dr. Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951.)

Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL
The cataloging of 3,537 rare books, serials, and monographic series related to the history of horticulture and landscape design in the Western world from 1400 to 1900.

Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY
The arrangement, description, rehousing, and cataloging of a multimedia collection that documents the history of Japanese theater from 1960 through the 1990s. An Internet-accessible finding aid will be created in English and Japanese.

Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT
The documentation of 3,806 artifacts of the Connecticut Historical Society's Home Life Collection, which includes furniture, clocks, fabric furnishings, metalware, ceramics and glassware that depict the history of technology and industry, the development of the decorative arts in the domestic environment, and the exchange of goods and ideas within American society from the settlement of Connecticut to the present.

Emory University, Atlanta, GA
The cataloging of 4,000 pamphlets dealing with politics and religion, written by or for African Americans and published from 1877 to 1980.

Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
Five expeditions to Ukraine to conduct oral history interviews with surviving Yiddish speakers about Jewish life in the region prior to the Holocaust.

Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, St. Leonard, MD
The preservation and cataloging of 185,000 original archaeological and laboratory records (paper-based reports and photographic images) associated with 34 major historic and prehistoric archaeological sites in Maryland dating from 9,000 BCE to CE 1600.

Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
The cataloging and preservation of approximately 50,000 pieces of Civil War-era ephemera in both printed and manuscript form. Two thousand items will be selected to be digitized and made accessible on the Internet.

New York Public Library, New York, NY
The arrangement and description of 200 linear feet of the papers of the playwright and screen writer Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981), as well as the creation of an encoded finding aid that will be made available on the Web.

New York State Education Department, Albany, NY
The creation of 97 online bilingual finding aids and 3,000 linked digital images focusing on the history of New York's Latino population since 1920.

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
The provision of integrated, consistent, and expanded online access to 1,600 archival and manuscript collections at seventeen institutions in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, which includes providing administrative and technical support and training participants in encoding and the use of style sheets.

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
The digitization and enhanced cataloging of over 1,300 hours of linguistic sound recordings and associated transcriptions with field notes that contain samples of 107 American Indian languages in cultural context, such as music and stories. The materials will be available on the Berkeley Language Center's Web site and on CD-ROMs.

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The digital reformatting, application of retrieval metadata, and cataloging of 583 hours of sound recordings dated 1885 to 1957 that collectively represent nine extinct or endangered Mesoamerican languages.

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
The arrangement and description of 2,662 linear feet of archives and manuscripts relating to the history and culture of Eastern Kentucky and Central Appalachia from the middle of the 19th century to the late 1970s.

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
The digital reformatting and creation of intellectual access to 19,300 hours of analog broadcast news that was captured off the air and recorded to videotape from 1968 to the present.

Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH
A collaborative effort among four libraries and eight regional and state historical societies to preserve and make intellectually accessible 3,100 linear feet of records on the American steel industry (including steel mills, coal mines, and iron ore operations) from the early 19th century to the 1970s.