The most critical decision any owner had was the routing of the circus for the season; a good route meant a successful season financially. Route books document the season for 19th and 20th century circuses, recording not only dates, locations, and...
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (The Ringling); Circus World Museum
Occidental College and partner community heritage organizations, Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society and Highland Park Heritage Trust, propose an intensive digitization project that will provide the documentary basis for new research on the grass...
Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society; Highland Park Heritage Trust
miSci requests $250,000 to digitize and make accessible the 100,000 earliest images in the General Electric Photograph Collection. The project will focus on images from 1880-1920, which document the beginnings of the electrical industry, focusing ...
The Military Collection Veterans Oral History Interview Collection, composed of more than 1,150 oral history interviews with military service members with North Carolina connections from all U.S. military branches. The materials date from 1996 to ...
The Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) requests to digitize, catalog, and make widely available over a period of two years the records of Boston-based social justice organization Freedom House. Once digitized, Freedom ...
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The proposed project would digitize and provide metadata for Carlos Montezuma manuscript material held by Arizona State University (ASU) Libraries, The University of Arizona Libraries' Special Collections, and the Wisconsin Historical Society; and...
University of Arizona Libraries' Special Collections; Wisconsin Historical Society; Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center
Vision Maker Media, a non-profit documentary film company funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, will work to digitize and make available a large collection of documentary films, television productions and raw footage, created between ...
This three-year project, a collaborative effort of Amherst and Mt. Holyoke Colleges, would support digitization, metadata creation, and unified access for interrelated collections of alumni who were missionaries in the Near East. Through this gran...
Amherst College; Mount Holyoke College
The Institute of Jazz Studies seeks funding to digitize and make publicly available the James P. Johnson Music and Personal Papers,a collection only available to users through on-site visits. The collection consists of music manuscripts, correspo...
The University and Jepson Herbaria propose a 1.5-year project to make freely available online the papers of the husband and wife pioneering botanical team John Gill Lemmon and Sara Plummer Lemmon. This project will involve the digitization of two ...
The Frederick W. Taylor collection documents the U.S. Progressive Era, which flourished between the 1890s and 1920s. The Progressives supported scientific methods to solve problems, and established an Efficiency Movement in every sector which coul...
Over a 21-month period, the Indiana Historical Society (IHS) will process, digitize and catalog more than 170,000 items of personal correspondence, business records, photographs and artifacts in the Madam C.J. Walker Collection (Walker Collection)...
Unprecedented in its scope and comprehensiveness, the Four Valleys collection consists of all paper, photographic, and digital records resulting from archaeological investigations conducted across 180 square kilometers (ca. 70 square miles) within...
Harvard University seeks $500,000 to digitize collections documenting two generations of pioneering women scientists from approximately 1840 to the 1970s. The project, estimated at more than 489,000 manuscript pages, will be scheduled for completi...
Wellesley College; Maria Mitchell Association; Smith College; Mount Holyoke College; Vassar College; Bryn Mawr College; Tuskegee University
This project is created in response to feedback from scholars, curators, and students working in the communities of art, design, material culture, and craft requesting more freely available and complete online content documenting contemporary arti...
This project will comprehensively digitize more than 3,060 Shaker manuscripts from six collections. Participants include Hamilton College, Winterthur Library, Hancock Shaker Village, Fruitlands Museum, Shaker Museum at South Union, and Enfield Sha...
Winterthur Library, 5105 Kennett Pike, Wilmington, DE 19735; Hancock Shaker Village, P.O. Box 927, Pittsfield, MA 01202; Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard, MA 01451; Shaker Museum at South Union, 850 Shaker Museum Rd, Auburn, KY 42206; Enfield Shaker Museum, 447 NH-4A, Enfield, NH 03748
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West's McCracken Research Library (MRL), in collaboration with Yellowstone National Park's Heritage & Research Center (HRC), will digitize and make freely available a vast collection of material from their respective...
Heritage & Research Center, Yellowstone National Park
University of Oklahoma Libraries' Western History Collections proposes a two-year project to digitize five manuscript collections consisting of approximately 58,000 pages and nine collections comprising 4,900 photographs related to the Wild West S...
In this three-year project, the University of Oklahoma, National Weather Center Library, and National Severe Storms Lab will collaborate to digitize a variety of rare books and archival materials related to the study of severe storms and will make...
National Weather Center Library; NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory
This project aims to digitize and digitally catalog the archives of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory (VPL) of The University of Texas at Austin over two years. The archival materials consist of 554 cubic feet (cf) of uncatalogued and undescr...
"Digitizing Atwater,” a collaborative project based at Wesleyan University, focuses on the papers of Wilbur Olin Atwater (1844-1907; Wesleyan B.A. 1865; Yale Ph.D. 1869), among the most important American scientists of the 19th century. Atwater's ...
University of Connecticut
The St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis will digitize materials from the Waterways Journal Collection at the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library. The full collection comprises 219 linear feet of res...
Princeton University Library's proposal is for a two-year project to digitize and publish in its open-access digital library a selection of Persian language periodicals, covering the tumultuous stages of the intellectual, political and social hist...
This collaborative project includes The Catholic University of America, Catholic Research Resources Alliance, Marquette University, and St. Catherine University. Over a period of three years (2016-2018) project partners will collectively digitize ...
The Catholic University of America (CUA); St. Catherine University (SCU); Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA)
Loyola Marymount University proposes to digitize selections from the Jesuit Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, 1540-1800, that illuminates the intellectual and creative engagement of Jesuit scholars with the Enlightenment Era world. Items select...
The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary ("The Library") seeks to digitize the raw film footage and related audio recordings from its Johanna L. Spector Papers and Audio-Visual Materials, a collection that documents the nearly extinct music...
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Out Front: 60 Years of LGBTQ Political Graphics at the ONE Archives will expose a wealth of visual materials documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) viewpoints since the 1950s. To advance the cultural understanding of qu...
The Wende Museum project proposes to complete digitization of its collection of East German amateur and unofficial audiovisual media (begun through a 2012 IMLS grant), in order to make these works known and broadly accessible, and to connect them ...
Boston Children's Museum (BCM) requests support for the Native American, Inuit, and Hawaiian Collections Digitization Project, for a project involving two years of work to catalog, digitize and make electronically accessible objects from BCM's Nat...
Over a 3-year period, the Claremont Colleges Library, A.K. Smiley Public Library, California State University Northridge Oviatt Library, California State University San Bernardino Water Resources Institute, National Archives and Records Administra...
Claremont Colleges Library; California State University, Northridge, Oviatt Library; California State University, San Bernardino, Water Resources Institute; A. K. Smiley Public Library, Redlands, CA; Ontario City Library, Ontario, CA; Upland City Library, Upland, CA
Over a three year period Stanford Libraries and the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation (SFTJF) will arrange, describe, digitize and make accessible archival materials covering the history of West Coast traditional jazz, a topic on which lit...
San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation
Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) proposes to digitize archival materials related to the Carnegie International, the longest running contemporary art survey in North America and the second oldest globally. From 2016-2018, CMOA will digitize correspond...