American Heritage
Preservation Grants
February 2009 Grant Announcement
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Mexico | New
York
North Carolina |
Ohio | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode
Island | South
Carolina | Tennessee | Texas
Vermont | Virgin
Islands | Virginia | Washington | West
Virginia | Wyoming
Alabama
Farley L. Berman Foundation - Anniston,
AL Award
Amount: $2,536
Contact: Mr. Robert Lindley
Collections Manager
(256)237-6261; RLindley@BermsnMuseum.org
Project Title: "Works of Art storage: from
toxic conditions to conservation shelving"
The Berman Museum of World History, in Anniston, Alabama,
will purchase new metal shelving units and acid-free materials
to store its unique two-dimensional and three-dimensional
art collections. The new storage facilities will allow
the collection of American and European art, with pieces
dating back to the fifteenth century, to be more available
for exhibitions shared with the community.
Alaska
Kodiak Historical Society - Kodiak, AK Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Katie Oliver
Executive Director
(907)486-5920; katie@baranovmuseum.org
Project Title: "Spruce Root Basket Conservation"
The Baranov Museum in Kodiak, Alaska, will treat a rare
nineteenth-century Alutiiq spruce root basket discovered
in an archaeological excavation in June 2008. This project
will also create a permanent support for storage and exhibition
of the basket. The conservator will instruct Baranov Museum
and other local museum staff on the creation of storage
and exhibition supports for baskets.
California
City of Ontario - Ontario, CA Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Mr. Steven Thomas
Curator of Education
(909)983-3198; sthomas@ci.ontario.ca.us
Project Title: "Conservation of Ontario
National Guard Unit Banner"
The Museum of History and Art, Ontario, California, will
clean and conserve a 1946 National Guard banner, the unit
“colors” of the 224th California National Guard, the Ontario
unit that served in the Pacific during World War II and
the Korean War. The project will also construct a new
frame that will allow for better storage and handling
for exhibition, improving the banner’s accessibility to
the community.
Riverside County Economic Development
Agency - Riverside, CA Award
Amount: $2,612
Contact: Ms. Teresa Gallavan
Manager
(951)955-6682; tgallavan@rivcoeda.org
Project Title: "Environmental Monitoring
Project"
The Edward-Dean Museum and Gardens in Riverside, California,
will purchase temperature and relative humidity data loggers
and install one unit in each of the museum’s eight rooms
that house the artifacts and rare manuscripts collected
by the museum founders. Information gained from these
units will be used to establish stable environmental conditions
within the museum, thus mitigating the effects of fluctuations
in temperature and relative humidity.
City of Roseville - Roseville, CA Award
Amount: $1,406
Contact: Ms. Lola Aguilar
Archivist
(916)746-1232; laguilar@roseville.ca.us
Project Title: "Southern Pacific Railroad
Collection"
The Roseville Public Library will rehouse in preservation
enclosures negatives, slides, and photographs from its
Southern Pacific Railroad Collection. These images were
taken in and around the railroad town of Roseville, home
to a railroad roundhouse and repair facility. To improve
the collection’s accessibility, the library will also
create digital copies of the originals.
Marin History Museum - San Rafael, CA Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Dawn Laurant
Chief Curator
(415)382-0770; dawn@marinhistory.org
Project Title: "Conversation of Saucelito"
The Marin History Museum in San Rafael, California, will
treat a fragile painting called the Saucelito portraying
the maritime history of Marin County, which was painted
by artists James and John Bard in the mid-twentieth century.
Once treated, the painting will be on exhibit in a gallery
with the model of the second ferryboat Sausalito, providing
an opportunity for visitors to see the two ships together
for the first time.
Colorado
Town of Estes Park - Estes Park, CO Award
Amount: $2,255
Contact: Ms. Betty Kilsdonk
Director
(970)577-3760; bkilsdonk@estes.org
Project Title: "Improvement of Flat File
Collection Storage at the Estes Park Museum"
The Estes Park Museum in Estes Park, Colorado, will purchase
archival supplies and a new flat file case to rehouse
the museum’s map, oversize photograph, and paper collections.
The collections cover a broad period dating from Estes
Park’s initial settlement in the 1880s, through the establishment
of Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915, to important
commercial developments of the late twentieth century.
Ute Pass Historical Society - Woodland
Park, CO Award
Amount: $2,700
Contact: Mrs. Beth Dodd
Curator
(719)686-7512; uphs@qwestoffice.net
Project Title: "Restoration and Conservation
of the Ute Pass Historical Society's Ute Indian Cradleboard"
The Ute Pass Historical Society in Woodland Park, Colorado,
will conserve and stabilize the most significant object
in its collection, a nineteenth-century Ute cradleboard
created for a boy. Particular attention will be paid to
the fibers in the headpiece, allowing the museum to continue
exhibiting this important cultural artifact.
Florida
Maitland Historical Society - Maitland,
FL Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Betty Sample
Curator of Collections
(407)644-1364; bsample@maitlandhistory.org
Project Title: "Maitland Historical Society's
Telephone Collection"
The Maitland Historical Society in Maitland, Florida,
will purchase archival boxes, folders, and sleeves to
rehouse its Winter Park Telephone Company collection,
which includes historic manuscripts and photographs, instruction
manual documents, and Bell System magazines, integral
to understanding the technological, social, commercial,
and physical growth of this small central Florida town.
Georgia
Augusta State University - Augusta, GA Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Mrs. Carol Waggoner-Angleton
Special Collections Assistant
(703)667-4904; cwaggone@aug.edu
Project Title: "Environmental Monitoring
Project"
Augusta State University will purchase environmental monitoring
equipment and software to help maintain proper storage
conditions for library special collection materials and
archeological artifacts. Among the materials benefitting
from this monitoring will be colonial-era Georgia documents
and southeastern Native American artifacts dating from
the Mississippian period.
Georgia Historical Society - Savannah,
GA Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Nora Lewis
Library and Archives Manager
(912)651-2125; nlewis@georgiahistory.com
Project Title: "Georgia Historical Society:
Monitoring Environmental Conditions"
The Georgia Historical Society in Savannah, Georgia, will
purchase monitoring equipment for temperature, relative
humidity, and visible and ultraviolet light. The monitoring
devices will enable the society to maintain stable environmental
conditions and ensure the long-term care of its collections,
which include an original draft of the U.S. Constitution,
a compass and snuff box belonging to Georgia founder James
Edward Oglethorpe, and the correspondence of national
figures such as U.S. presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew
Jackson and Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Illinois
McHenry County College - Crystal Lake,
IL Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Sandra Lang
Art Gallery Curator
(815)455-8785; slang@mchenry.edu
Project Title: "Environmental Improvements
for the Portrait in Print Collection"
McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois, will
purchase ultraviolet filters and environmental sensing
equipment to reduce ultraviolet light exposure and more
effectively monitor fluctuations in the storage conditions
of its “Portrait in Print,” a collection of etchings,
woodcuts, lithography, intaglio, and serigraphy fine art
print portraits of leading American poets, painters, politicians
and writers. Some of the creators of these prints include
Marc Chagall, David Hockney, Mauricio Lasansky, Pablo
Picasso, Diego Rivera, and Andy Warhol.
Indiana
City of Crawfordsville - Crawfordsville,
IN Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko
Director
(765)362-5769x101; clegutko@ben-hur.com
Project Title: "Stabilization of the General
Lew Wallace Study & Museum's Textile and Oversized Historic
Object Collections"
The General Lew Wallace Museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana,
will purchase acid-free boxes, tissue, storage tubes,
and other archival supplies to rehouse the textile and
oversized objects collections, including a Civil War uniform
worn by General Wallace in 1861; a silk dress that is
the collection’s only piece of clothing worn by Susan
Wallace, General Wallace’s wife; a Civil War saddle; a
Mexican war drum; and six Kilim and Navajo rugs.
Iowa
German American Heritage Center - Davenport,
IA Award
Amount: $2,555
Contact: Ms. Scharlott Blevins
Activity Coordinator
(563)322-8844; director@gahc.org
Project Title: "German American Heritage
Center: Newspaper Preservation Project"
The German American Heritage Center in Davenport, Iowa,
will purchase archival boxes, storage cabinets, and environmental
monitoring equipment for a 29-volume set of original,
locally published German-language newspapers from the
1870s through 1915. The newspapers contain an anthology
of information on German American immigrant life, business,
culture, births and deaths, and political and social issues
of the time important for understanding the German American
perspective in this community.
Louisiana
City of Baton Rouge - Baton Rouge, LA Award
Amount: $2,740
Contact: Ms. Melissa Eastin
Archivist / Librarian II
(225)389-4960; meastin@ebr.lib.la.us
Project Title: "Preservation of the Baton
Rouge Collection through Environmental Monitoring and
Re-housing of Archival Materials"
The East Baton Rouge Parish Library will purchase two
thermo-hygrometers, a portable light meter, and acid-free
storage boxes to rehouse archival materials held by its
local history collection, the Baton Rouge Room. The environmental
monitoring equipment will be of special benefit to the
library as its archival materials (e.g., photographs,
city documents, maps) are currently subject to high levels
of humidity and damaging light.
Maine
Museum Company - Lewiston, ME Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Karla Leandri Rider
Coordinator of Collections and Visitor Services
(207)333-3881; kleandririder@museumla.org
Project Title: "Museum L-A Textile Project"
Museum L-A, an industrial history site in Lewiston-Auburn,
Maine, will buy archival storage material for more than
100 high-priority large textiles in the collection. These
tablecloths, linens, and bedspreads tell the story of
the local textile industry as well as the national story
of industry and innovation. Improving the storage of these
items will make them more accessible to the community
and will allow the museum to continue tying oral histories
to the textiles produced in these mills.
Monhegan Museum - Monhegan, ME Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Dr. Robert Stahl
Associate Director
(207)596-6963; fitzgeraldlegacy@aol.com
Project Title: "The james Fitzgerald Estate:
Improvement of the Works on Paper Collection Storage"
The Monhegan Museum in Monhegan, Maine, will purchase
a flat file storage cabinet, archival supplies, and environmental
monitoring equipment to rehouse and store works on paper,
sketches, drawings, and unframed watercolor paintings
of many local sites by artist James E. Fitzgerald (1899–1971).
The new storage facilities will allow the collection to
be moved from temporary off-site storage to the museum
for improved access and exhibition.
Dyer Library Association - Saco, ME Award
Amount: $2,972
Contact: Ms. Jessica Routhier
Museum Director
(207)283-3861x114; museum@sacomuseum.org
Project Title: "CAP Implementation: Environmental
Monitoring"
The Saco Museum in Saco, Maine, will purchase monitoring
equipment for its exhibitions and storage areas, including
humidity and temperature data loggers, a hand-held light
meter, Blue Scale Textile Fading cards, and the necessary
compatible software and equipment. Grant funds will also
support two days of onsite training for Saco Museum staff
in the use of the new equipment.
Maryland
Alice Ferguson Foundation - Accokeek,
MD Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Doris Sharp
Collections Manager
(310)292-5665; dsharp@fergusonfoundation.org
Project Title: "Environmental Monitoring
and Light Control for the Alice Ferguson Foundation Farmhouse"
The Hard Bargain Farm, a historic site in Accokeek, Maryland,
will purchase ultraviolet light shades and environmental
monitors for the farmhouse. Installation of the shades
will reduce the harmful effects of ultraviolet light on
the collections, and the monitoring equipment will provide
the foundation’s staff with the information necessary
to implement appropriate environmental controls.
McDaniel College - Westminster, MD Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Barbara O'Brien
College Archivist
(410)386-2793; bobrien@mcdaniel.edu
Project Title: "Disbinding Seven James Thomas
Ward Diaries for Preservation and Access"
The McDaniel College Library will provide conservation
treatment for seven diaries (1890–1895) written by its
founder James Thomas Ward, a Methodist minister and avid
diarist. Ninety-nine of Rev. Ward’s diaries are held by
the college and the Library of Congress. They are an essential
source for information concerning the college, Maryland
history, Methodism, and nineteenth-century domestic life.
Massachusetts
Town of Barnstable - Barnstable, MA Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Lucy loomis
Library Director
(508)362-8448; sturgislib@comcast.net
Project Title: "John Lothrop's Bible - -
A preservation project"
The town of Barnstable’s Sturgis Library will create a
microclimate display case to hold the Bible of Rev. John
Lothrop, Congregational minister and one of the founders
of Barnstable, Massachusetts. Lothrop brought the 1605
Bible with him to America on board the Griffin in 1634.
It was burned by candle wax during the trip and repaired
by Lothrop, who filled in the missing text from memory.
Canton Historical Society - Canton, MA Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Marie Gibbs
Vice President
(781)828-0073; familygibbs@aol.com
Project Title: "Cleaning and Fabric Stabilization
of the 1787 Martha Howard Quilt"
The Canton Historical Society in Canton, Massachusetts,
will clean and stabilize damaged areas of the custom-dyed
wool fabric of an eighteenth-century quilt designed and
created by Martha Howard, one of the founding members
of the town. Following conservation treatment, the Martha
Howard Quilt will be padded and wrapped in acid-free tissue
and placed in an acid-free, archival-quality box for protection
and long-term storage.
Sargent-Murray Gilman-Hough Historical
Society - Gloucester, MA Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Barbara Silberman
Senior Program Advisor
(978)281-5801; bwsilberman@yahoo.com
Project Title: "Conservation of a Candlewick
Spread (c.1812) for the Bedchamber of Judith Sargent Murray
(1715-1820)"
The Sargent House Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts,
will clean and treat a candlewick bedspread created in
1812. The conserved bedspread will provide the centerpiece
of a reinterpretation of the bedchamber of Judith Sargent
Murray, a late eighteenth-century advocate for women’s
equality and education. Central to the story of the house
and its occupants, this bedchamber was the site of her
writing desk where many of her progressive ideas were
captured.
National Fire Protection Association
- Quincy, MA Award
Amount: $2,980
Contact: Stephanie Naoum
Association Archivist
(617)984-7447; snaoum@nfpa.org
Project Title: "Conservation of Books; Fires
and Public Entertainments, 1897"
The Charles S. Morgan Technical Library of the National
Fire Protection Association will treat Edwin O. Sach’s
important work, Fires and Public Entertainments: A Study
of Some 1100 Notable Fires at Theatres, Music Halls, Circus
Buildings and Temporary Structures during the Last 100
Years (1897). This book, which is frequently consulted
by a wide range of researchers, has suffered greatly from
water damage and is in a highly fragile state. In addition
to the conservation treatment, the library will digitize
the book, making a scanned copy available free of charge
on its Web site.
Minnesota
Regents of the University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis, MN Award
Amount: $2,760
Contact: Ms. Eunice Haugen
Registrar and Museum Coordinator
(612)625-2737; hauge363@umn.edu
Project Title: "Preserving Heritage Through
Environmental Monitoring"
The Goldstein Museum of Design in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
a repository for an extensive collection of international
textiles, apparel, decorative arts, and graphic design,
will purchase environmental monitoring equipment for the
collection storage area, research center, and exhibition
gallery. This equipment will allow museum staff to monitor
light levels as well as temperature and humidity levels,
which will allow staff to observe trends and fluctuations
and make adjustments to ensure the environmental stability
of the collections.
Missouri
National Society of the Colonial Dames
of America in the State of Missouri - Sainte Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Miss Lorraine Stange
Executive Director
(573)883-3105; bolduchouse@sbcglobal.net
Project Title: "Dehumidifying the Beauvais
Linden Basement"
The Bolduc House Museum, an eighteenth-century French
colonial house in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, will install
a vapor barrier and a portable high-capacity dehumidifier
in the basement of the Beauvais Linden House, a structure
housing much of the collections of the museum. These measures
will mitigate a moisture problem that has grown in recent
years, allowing the museum to continue to interpret the
colonial history of the community.
Montana
Montana Historical Society - Helena,
MT Award
Amount: $2,987
Contact: Brian Shovers
Library Manager
(406)444-7415; bshovers@mt.gov
Project Title: "Map Treatment Project"
The Montana Historical Society Library will physically
stabilize and encapsulate 11 of its most significant maps,
including the first map of Montana, which was created
in 1865. The library will also digitize these maps, adding
the resulting digital copies to statewide digital archives
and providing print duplicates for the use of the public.
New Mexico
Union County Historical Society - Clayton,
NM Award
Amount: $2,991
Contact: Mrs. Kristen Christy
Executive Director
(575)374-2977; uchs@plateautel.net
Project Title: "Faces of Union County, New
Mexico"
The Herzstein Memorial Museum, part of the Union County
Historical Society, in Clayton, New Mexico, will improve
the storage of more than 1,600 photographs and 1,500 negatives
that represent more than 100 years of community history.
Funds will be used to buy folders, boxes, shelving, and
environmental monitoring equipment that will allow the
museum to care for its collection in the future while
also making it more accessible to the community.
New York
Phillips Free Library - Homer, NY Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Priscilla Berggren-Thomas
Library Director
(607)749-4616; phillip1@twcny.rr.com
Project Title: "Eli Carpenter Portrait &
Frame Restoration Project"
The Phillips Free Library in Homer, New York, will repair
damages to a historically significant oil portrait and
frame of Eli Carpenter painted in 1843 by Sanford Thayer,
who was both a locally celebrated portrait artist and
teacher of some renown in the community. The conservation
measures will allow the portrait to remain on exhibit
in the library.
Historical Society of Rockland County
- New City, NY Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Jessica Kuhnen
Curator of Collections
(845)634-9629; jkuhnen@rocklandhistory.org
Project Title: "HSRC Textiles and Costume
Collection Storage Room Phase 11"
The Historical Society of Rockland County, New City, New
York, will purchase and install two mobile storage units
for the textiles and costumes room. Following installation
of the storage units and shelving, 1,100 pieces of clothing
and 60 textiles will be stored in an environmentally secure
setting, and their accessibility for researchers will
be improved.
Young Morse Historic Site - Poughkeepsie,
NY Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Mr. Kenneth Snodgrass
Executive Director / Curator
(845)454-4500x11; k.snodgrass@lgny.org
Project Title: "Locust Grove Visible Light
/ Ultraviolet Light Filtering Window Shade Replacement"
The Young Morse Historic Site’s Locust Grove, in Poughkeepsie,
New York, a 40-room mansion in the Hudson Valley, will
purchase ultraviolet light-filtering shades for 31 windows.
The shades will reduce the harmful effects of ultraviolet
light and facilitate the long-term preservation of the
mansion’s paintings, textiles, and furniture.
Schenectady County Historical Society
- Schenectady, NY Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Kathryn Weller
Curator
(518)374-0263; curator@schist.org
Project Title: "Improvement of Collections
Storage Project"
The Schenectady Museum of History will purchase and install
new steel shelving units in the main repository for the
collections. The museum staff will then relocate the most
fragile specimens, including textiles, wood, bone, and
ivory objects, to the new metal cabinets, protecting them
for future research and exhibition.
North Carolina
Asheville Art Museum - Asheville, NC Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Cole Hendrix
Assistant Curator
(828)253-3227x124; chendrix@ashevilleart.org
Project Title: "Ruth Asawa Conservation"
The Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, North Carolina,
will reshape and clean the metal of a wire sculpture by
Ruth Asawa, an artist who is both locally and nationally
important for her connection to the Black Mountain College.
The conservator, who is also the artist’s daughter, will
undertake the conservation and present an educational
program about her mother’s life and work and conserving
this piece of work.
Wake Forest University - Winston-Salem,
NC Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Dr. Stephen Whittington
Director
(336)758-5827; whittisl@wfu.edu
Project Title: "Museum of Anthropology Plains
hide conservation"
The Museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest University in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will conserve an important
and endangered Comanche painted hide. Conservation of
this artifact will allow the hide to be used in exhibits
and programs about Southern Great Plains culture during
the mid-nineteenth century. The hide and its treatment
will also be featured in the museum’s online artifact
database, giving it an even greater audience and highlighting
the importance of preserving historic objects for future
generations.
Ohio
North Canton Heritage Society - North
Canton, OH Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Kathleen Fernandez
Executive Director
330-456-36 x96; kathyfernandez@neo.rr.com
Project Title: "Ultraviolet Light Amelioration
Project"
The North Canton Heritage Society in North Canton, Ohio,
will purchase ultraviolet filter film for its windows
and lightbulbs, which will greatly reduce the damaging
effects of ultraviolet radiation on the society’s collections.
A large portion of the collections represents the history
of the Hoover Company, worldwide manufacturer and distributor
of vacuums, which was headquartered in the town.
Oregon
Bosco-Milligan Foundation - Portland,
OR Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Cathy Galbraith
Executive Director
(503)231-7264; cathyg@visitahc.org
Project Title: "Improvements of Collections
Storage"
The Architectural Heritage Center in Portland, Oregon,
will install new collections storage shelving and upgrade
existing shelving to better care for the 20,000 architectural
fragments in the care of the museum. Better storage of
these artifacts, which include stained-glass windows and
decorative cast iron, will allow the community and researchers
to better understand Portland’s built environment.
Pennsylvania
North Museum Corporation - Lancaster,
PA Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Margaret Marino
Executive Director
(717)358-4445; margie.marino@fandm.edu
Project Title: "Herbarium Improvement Project
for the North Museum"
The North Museum of Natural History and Science in Lancaster,
will purchase flat file cabinets and buffered archival
folders to rehouse 26,981 dried botanical specimens of
flowering and nonflowering plants in the herbarium collection.
These diverse specimens were collected locally from the
early 1800s through the 1950s and have been used to produce
a list of rare and endangered plants in Pennsylvania.
Delaware County Community College - Media,
PA Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Karen Rege
Director of Library Services
(610)359-5145; krege@dccc.edu
Project Title: "World War II Poster Preservation
Project"
The Delaware County Community College will restore and
stabilize 19 original World War II posters for display
and educational purposes. Government and civilian agencies
produced the posters to promote various war efforts such
as recruitment, blood donation, the planting of victory
gardens, and the purchase of war bonds.
Pennsbury Society - Morrisville, PA Award
Amount: $2,965
Contact: Kimberly McCarty
Curator
(215)946-0400; kimccarty@state.pa.us
Project Title: "Conservation of Great Hall
Chandelier"
Pennsbury Manor in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, will conserve
its Great Hall chandelier. Dated to circa 1710, the brass
piece is a focal point of the reconstructed country plantation
of William Penn and an object of discussion for every
tour of the manor. When the treatment is complete, the
chandelier will be reassembled and returned to its place
in the Great Hall.
Historic Philadelphia - Philadelphia,
PA Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Megan Harris
Archivist
(215)686-1254; megan@betsyrosshouse.org
Project Title: "Conservation, Housing, and
Exhibition of John Ross' Probate Papers"
The Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will
create an archival microenvironment for the long-term
preservation of the probate papers of John Ross, Betsy
Ross’s first husband. These papers provide the inventory
of his belongings at the time of his death, as well as
the only known copy of Betsy Ross’s signature as “Elizabeth
Ross.” Grant funds will also be used to create a secure
exhibit case for these papers, making them accessible
to the public for the first time.
Christ Church Preservation Trust - Philadelphia,
PA Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Carol Smith
Curator / Archivist
(215)925-1695; csmith@christchurchphila.org
Project Title: "Conservation of 18th Century
Vestry Minutes"
The Christ Church Preservation Trust, a historic site
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will conserve two of its
vestry minutes, which cover the years 1761–1784 and include
rich historical information on many pivotal events in
the formation of the United States. The pages of the book
will be washed and physically mended, loose pages will
be reattached, the cover will be cleaned, and the entire
volume will be rebound and housed in a specially constructed
archival box for long-term storage.
Wagner Free Institute of Science - Philadelphia,
PA Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Mr. Donald Azuma
Site Manager
(215)763-6529x19; azuma@wagnerfreeinstitute.org
Project Title: "Armature Repair of the Museum's
19th Century English Draft Horse Skeleton"
The Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, will repair damage to the mount brackets
that support the skeleton of an English draft horse, the
focal point of the institute’s Nineteenth-Century Exhibition
Hall. Conservation of this exhibition mount maintains
the museum spotlight on real specimens in the context
of a Victorian museum setting, promoting interest in science
and learning in younger children and scholarly interest
in the history of science, museums, and education.
Rhode Island
John Brown House - Providence, RI Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Phoebe Simpson
Technical and Conservation Librarian
(401)273-8107x24; psimpson@rihs.org
Project Title: "Rhode Island Civil War Restoration
Project"
The Rhode Island Historical Society Library in Providence
will conserve and physically stabilize important Civil
War-related records concerning the Third Regiment, Rhode
Island Heavy Artillery. This project will serve as a catalyst
for the society’s program to conserve all of its Civil
War manuscript volumes.
South Carolina
Historic Columbia Foundation - Columbia,
SC Award
Amount: $2,084
Contact: Miss Alexis Thompson
Collections Manager
(803)252-1770x34; athompson@historiccolumbia.org
Project Title: "Improvement of Environmental
Monitoring of Collections in Historic Houses"
The Historic Columbia Foundation in Columbia, South Carolina,
will purchase humidity and temperature monitoring equipment
for the five historic houses that the foundation oversees.
The new equipment will allow staff to assess long-term
changes and adjust the environment for five structures
and the 6,500 objects housed in those structures, ensuring
long-term preservation of the history of the city.
Tennessee
University of the South - Sewanee, TN Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: John Tilford
Information Technology Fellow
(931)598-1787; jtilford@sewanee.edu
Project Title: "Conservation of two watercolor
paintings by Rev. John Hopkins, cira1860"
The University of the South will provide conservation
treatment to two watercolors on paper. These highly unstable
works of art, both painted in 1859 by the Rt. Rev. John
H. Hopkins, constitute one of the earliest recorded topographical
views of the location of the university, as well as the
school’s earliest architectural proposal. The first items
to be added to the university’s permanent collection,
tradition holds that these paintings were among the few
items sent away from the school for safekeeping during
the American Civil War.
Texas
Stephen F. Austin State University -
Nacogdoches, TX Award
Amount: $2,985
Contact: Ms. Carolyn Spears
Director, Research & Sponsored Programs
(936)468-2408; cspears@sfasu.edu
Project Title: "Anna Raguet Conservation
Treatment Project"
The Stone Fort Museum, in Nacogdoches, Texas, will conserve
two fragile silk gowns owned by Anna Raguet Irion and
Harriet Irion, a mother and daughter who were members
of an influential nineteenth-century Texas family with
ties to Sam Houston. Custom archival boxes will be designed
and constructed to rehouse the gowns upon completion of
their treatment.
El Progreso Memorial Library - Uvalde,
TX Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Virginia Davis
Archivist
(830)278-2017; vlwdavis@hotmail.com
Project Title: "Preserving first issues
of the Uvalde Leader-News"
The El Progreso Memorial Library will purchase preservation
enclosures and re-house the only known copies of the first
three years of the local newspaper, The Uvalde Leader-News
(1898–1901). Because of their condition and the fact that
they have not been duplicated or reformatted, these issues
have never been made available to researchers.
Vermont
Rowland E. Robinson Memorial Accociation
- Ferrisburgh, VT Award
Amount: $2,600
Contact: Miss Jane Williamson
Director
(802)877-3406x000; rokeby@comcast.net
Project Title: "Conservation of Daguerreotypes"
The Rokeby Museum, in Ferrisburgh, Vermont, will conserve
two daguerreotypes that depict two of the four generations
who lived at the site and were active in the Underground
Railroad. The first photograph shows Thomas Richardson
Robinson, a Quaker who moved to Vermont in 1792, and the
second portrays his son and daughter-in-law, Rowland T.
and Rachel G. Robinson, nationally active abolitionists.
The conserved images will be showcased in an upcoming
exhibit at the site.
Virgin Islands
Planning and Natural Resources - Charlotte
Amalie, VI Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Ingrid Bough
Territorial Director of Archives
(340)773-5715; ingrid.bough@dpnr.gov.vi
Project Title: "Environmental Montioring
for Special Collections/Archives"
The Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums of the
Virgin Islands will purchase equipment and software to
help build a systemwide, coordinated environmental monitoring
program for its special collections and archives storage
in St. Thomas and St. Croix. This system will help safeguard
the manuscripts, rare books and publications, photographs
and negatives, microfilm, Danish West Indian and early
government records dating back to the early 1700s, maps,
architectural drawings, video recordings, renderings,
and photographs from deterioration caused by temperature
and humidity fluctuations.
Virginia
Albemarle County Historical Society -
Charlottesville, VA Award
Amount: $2,180
Contact: Mr. Steven Meeks
President, Board of Directors
(434)296-1492; president@albemarlehistory.org
Project Title: "Restoration of First African
American Mayor Portrait"
The Albemarle County Historical Society in Charlottesville,
Virginia, will conserve a painting of Charles Barbour,
the first African-American mayor of Charlottesville, who
served from 1974 to 1976. The painting will be cleaned,
flattened, and returned to its frame and exhibited as
part of an inclusive historical interpretation of the
city.
Washington
Center for Wooden Boats - Seattle, WA Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Ms. Elizabeth Davis
Executive Director
(206)382-2628; betsy@cwb.org
Project Title: "Storage Cover for Historic
Herreshoff Sailboat"
The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, Washington, will
have a custom canvas cover designed and installed on Shrimpo,
a sailboat built and designed in 1914 by Nathaniel Herreshoff,
who built and designed five of the six racing sloops that
consecutively won the America’s Cup. The cover will protect
the boat from rain while in storage, preventing deterioration
of the wooden hull. The design process will be shared
with visitors, and interpretive signage will discuss the
importance of preventive care of boats in the collection.
West Virginia
Arthurdale Heritage - Arthurdale, WV Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Mrs. Heather Dalton
Executive Director
(304)864-3959; ahi@arthurdaleheritage.org
Project Title: "Conserving "Eleanor's Little
Village""
The New Deal Homestead Museum and Archive in Arthurdale,
West Virginia, will purchase shelving, archival folders,
and other storage equipment to better preserve the extensive
collections of New Deal–era textiles, photographs, and
other archival documents relating to this 1930s homesteading
experiment. The improved storage conditions will allow
increased accessibility of the collection for exhibitions
and researchers alike.
Wyoming
Laramie Plains Museum - Laramie, WY Award
Amount: $3,000
Contact: Connie Lindmier
Curator
(307)742-4448; lpmcurator@bresnan.net
Project Title: "Conservation Treatment and
Stabilization of Two High Priority Women's Gowns in the
Collection of the Laramie Plains Museum"
The Laramie Plains Museum in Laramie, Wyoming will conserve
two silk ball gowns. One gown was worn by prominent Laramie
resident Mrs. B.C. Daly, to the inaugural ball for President
Grover Cleveland in 1893, and the other is a short flapper
gown from 1922 worn by Mrs. Alice Hardie Stevens, the
founder of the Laramie Plains Museum. The dresses will
then be exhibited as part of a focus on the role of women
in the community.
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