Discovered 2607 Entries

Quaker diaries, journals, commonplace books and small manuscript collections

The Haverford College Libraries request support of $59,328 to catalog and describe 166 linear feet of diaries, journals, commonplace books, other manuscript volumes and collections. As a social group, the Quakers had expansive influence in importa...

Processing the Globe Collection and Press

Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute College of Art will partner to oversee the arrangement, description and preservation of the archives of the Globe Collection and Press. The collection includes business records, posters, letterpress...

Maryland Institute College of Art

Illuminating New York’s Art and Performance Heritage from the 1960s to the Present: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives Audiovisual Collections

This two-year project will allow the public to discover and access, for the first time, unique audiovisual collections documenting the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's influential and vibrant history of exhibitions, performances, and public programs...

Arranging and Describing Storefront’s Archive

Storefront for Art & Architecture (Storefront) respectfully requests 18 months of CLIR support to process, describe, and make public its archive of programming records. These records document Storefront's diverse and influential program of over 28...

Computer History Museum Archives Processing Project (CHM APP)

The Computer History Museum (CHM) will process and make publicly available 26 of its most significant yet hidden collections documenting the Information Age and its ongoing impact on society. The CHM Archives Processing Project (CHM APP) is a two ...

The Maritime World in Photographs: Cataloguing the Photo Negatives of The Mariners' Museum

The Mariners’ Museum Library, the largest maritime library in the Western Hemisphere proposes cataloging at the item level over the next three years its most significant holdings of 19th and early 20th century photographic negatives. These negat...

La Raza Newspaper & Magazine Records: Providing Access to the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

This three-year project will catalog a collection of 24,698 photographic negatives documenting the Mexican-descent community of Los Angeles between 1967 and 1977. These long inaccessible negatives were recovered in 2013, and represent an unprecede...

Cataloging Cavagna: Italian imprints from the Sixteenth through the Nineteenth Century

The project will catalog some 20,000 rare Italian imprints from the 16th through 19th centuries in the historically significant Cavagna Collection, using our innovative and highly successful "Quick & Clean Rare Book Cataloging" model originally fu...

Hidden in Plain Sight

Our project will create metadata to record significant unique characteristics of titles in the circulating collections of the U.Va. Library, focusing on 19th century titles. Many titles in our 19th century circulating collections have evidentiary...

Tibetan Audio-Visual Collections at Trace Foundation's Latse Library

For two decades, Trace Foundation's Latse Library has been one of the only institutions in the world comprehensively acquiring audio-visual materials from Tibetan and Himalayan regions. The collection of nearly 7,000 items is the largest of its ki...

Action in Appalachia: Revealing Public Health, Housing, and Community Development records in the UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center

This two-year project will result in 645 cubic feet of fully processed Appalachian records comprising seven hidden collections of War on Poverty-era, social justice organizational records. These community-driven groups worked to improve public hea...

The Wellesley Centers for Women records

Processing the records of the Wellesley Centers for Women is a one-year project to catalog and create robust finding aids for an approximately 50 linear feet collection documenting the history and activities of one of the largest gender-focused re...

National Educational Television Collection Catalog

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting will develop a national catalog of National Educational Television (NET) titles. NET (1952-1972) comprises the earliest public television content, about 8-10,000 titles, including some incisive social do...

Library of Congress

Fresh Air in the Sunlight: Opening Access to Forty Years of WHYY's Fresh Air with Terry Gross

WHYY seeks support to create free access to its 38+-year collection of the Peabody Award-winning national radio program FRESH AIR WITH TERRY GROSS. Produced and owned totally by WHYY, this award-winning, weekday magazine of contemporary arts and ...

Drexel University, Philadelphia

Providing Access to the Bose Pacia Gallery Collection (1994-2011)

The +91 Foundation is a non-profit organization specializing in South Asian contemporary visual arts. The +91 Archives is the archival platform of the organization which focuses on the documentation and preservation of archival material created by...

Eiko Ishioka papers

The Eiko Ishioka collection at the Academy Foundation's Margaret Herrick Library comprises the film-related personal documentation and artistic output of production and costume designer Eiko Ishioka (1938-2012). This analog/born-digital collection...

The American Academy in Rome: Creating Access to the Records of Academy Life and Works of American Scholars and Artists

Over a period of 14 months, the American Academy in Rome will survey, preserve and catalog the "American Academy in Rome" archive of materials relating to the Academy's history, architecture, development, and community, including: digital and anal...

Movers and Shakers: the Hidden Archives of the Museum Founders, Dealers, and Early Collectors that Shaped and Defined the Field

This twelve-month project will provide access to important archives of eleven individuals who helped shape and define the field including museum founders Adele Earnest and David L. Davies; Robert Bishop, director; Gerald Kornblau, collector and de...

Obscured Moving Image Innovators at Anthology Film Archives

Anthology Film Archives (AFA) requests funding to make accessible a significant number of paper collections related to individuals whose works serve as primary source records of cultural movements in the history of cinema and twentieth century art...

The Tubac Presidio and Fort Verde Collections

Tubac Presidio and Fort Verde are historic properties that are emblematic of culture contact, assimilation, and subjugation of Native American groups during Euro-American colonization of the American West. Many archival materials associated with t...

Expanding Access to the Performing Arts in San Diego

The Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC), San Diego Youth Symphony & Conservatory (SDYS), and San Diego Civic Youth Ballet (SDCYB) seek funding to catalog and make accessible a collection of up to 10,000 photographs, newspaper clippings, progra...

San Diego Youth Symphony & Conservatory; San Diego Civic Youth Ballet

No joking about art and the 1st Amendment: The Lenny Bruce collection at Brandeis University

Brandeis University, an institution founded on principles of social justice and named in honor of a Supreme Court Justice who championed every American's right to free speech, will process the personal papers of internationally renowned Jewish com...

An Institution Grows with Brooklyn: Revealing 150 Years of Brooklyn Historical Society's Evolution

This project will create MARC encoded bibliographic records for "hidden” institutional archive materials at the Brooklyn Historical Society (those with missing, inaccurate, or incomplete descriptive records in finding aid or MARC format), and ma...

Artpark Archives: 1973-2000

This two-year project will focus on the arrangement and description of the Artpark Archive collection, resulting in the creation of a DACS-compliant intellectual finding aid accessible through the Burchfield Penney's custom-built content managemen...

Cataloging Burpee Museum's Hidden Dinosaurs

Burpee Museum of Natural History has become a leader in active paleontological expeditions and research in North America in the past ten years. Over this time, expeditions have discovered "Jane" the best preserved and most complete juvenile Tyrann...

Sharing Andrew Carnegie's Legacy: Creating “Constellations of Information” by Directly Linking Museum Specimens with Associated Archival Materials

Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) will catalog ten major archival collections that contextualize specimens, include valuable baseline scientific data, and offer insights into institutional and cultural history. Work will be carried out by ...

Tucker-Coleman Family Papers

The objective of this project is to process the hidden portion of the Tucker-Coleman family papers in Swem Library at the College of William & Mary and make them as discoverable as the family papers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Frank Lloyd Wright: the photographic record of his life and works at Avery Library

This three-year project will inventory, accession and catalog 83,450 multi-format images in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives at Avery Library. This remarkable photographic record captures Wright's life from childhood through adulthood; i...

Uncovering the Archives of Union Theological Seminary

The archive of Union Theological Seminary contains approximately 141 collections (1,135 linear feet) of papers from faculty members, students, and others associated with UTS, one of the oldest theological schools in the United States. This archive...

Treasures of Song: Charting the Lutheran Assimilation in America, 1750-2000 - A comprehensive index of the American Lutheran Hymnal Collection

The Center for Church Music, in collaboration with Concordia University Chicago (CUC), seeks support for the cataloging of 620 American hymnals published between 1750 and 2000. Together, these document the way in which Northern European Lutherans ...

Foundations of Dance Research, Part II (Foundations II)

Foundations II will make available to the public materials in 17 currently hidden collections that illuminate the people, institutions, and concepts significant in American dance during the 20th century. The 12 institutions (the Repositories) hold...

92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center; American Folklife Center, Library of Congress; Bennington College; Berkshire Athenaeum; Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library For The Performing Arts; Museum Of Performance + Design; National Museum of Dance; Newberry Library; Temple University; Theatre Historical Society of America; University of New Hampshire; University of the Arts University Libraries & Archives

Robert H. Ruby Papers

This collection encompasses the historical work of Dr. Robert H. Ruby (1921 -2013), physician/surgeon. His medical obligation to the government was served as the Chief Medical Officer on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation at Pine Ridge, South Dakot...