- $5,422
Albany Institute Library Preservation Project
Recipient: Groft, Tammis K (Albany, NY 12210 USA) in affiliation with Albany Institute of History and Art
Goal: The purchase of preservation supplies, window coverings for diffusing sunlight, storage furniture, and environmental monitoring equipment for the institution's library and archival collections, which document the history of the upper Hudson Valley region from Colonial times to the present and support research and educational programs in archaeology, art history, literature, and philosophy.
Description: The AIHA Library proposes to implement some of the recommendations that Beth Patkus, NEH-funded preservation consultant with the Northeast Document Conservation Center, made in her 2005 general preservation survey report. The Library will purchase and install solar shade to cover the seven Library windows; purchase archival supplies to rehouse the General Slide Collection and South Mall Photograph Album; purchase three five-drawer horizontal file cabinets to house the deeds; purchase two dehumidifiers to use as needed in the Library; purchase ten digital thermohygrometers to monitor environmental conditions in the Library and its exhibition cases.
Grant: 193960 / PG-50596-09, Category: Archival Management and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation Assistance Grants, Year Awarded: 2009 - $575,000
Historic Cherry Hill: Initiative to Strengthen Public Access to the Humanities
Recipient: LaFrance, Liselle M (Albany, NY 12202 USA) in affiliation with Historic Cherry Hill
Goal: Restoration of a 1787 house, endowment for the Curatorial and Research Department, and fund-raising expenses.
Description: Historic Cherry Hill requests a $575,000 Challenge Grant from NEH in support of a $2.3 million capital campaign. HCH's objective in launching the campaign is to strengthen public intellectual access to the humanities and Cherry Hill's rich, unique resources. The campaign has three components: 1) restoration/ repairs to the 1787 home, listed on the National Register of Historic Places; 2) endowment of the Curatorial and Research Department, including salaries of the Curator, part-time Manuscript Specialist, and operation of the Edward Frisbee Center for Collections & Research; and 3) investment in the museum's development/fund raising program, which is essential to stabilizing and expanding operations now and in the years to come. Home to five generations of Van Rensselaers, Cherry Hill today tells a nationally significant story through a personal family lens, using the site's intact collections of 20,000 objects, 30,000 manuscripts, 7,500 textiles, 5,000 books and 3,000 photographs.
Grant: 186199 / CH-50438-08, Category: American History, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants, Year Awarded: 2008 - $70,000
New Netherland Project: Translating and Editing of New Netherland Archives
Recipient: Gehring, Charles T (Albany, NY 12230 USA) in affiliation with University of the State of New York (Albany, NY 12234 USA)
Goal: Transcription, translation, and annotation of 17th-century Dutch records of the colonial government of New Netherland. (12 months)
Description: The New Netherland Project will translate 17th century Dutch records of the colonial government of New Netherland. Written in an archaic form of Dutch, these historically significant documents are effectually unavailable to researchers because of the language barrier. This project will provide access to original colonial archives of continuing legal and historical importance relating to all the New England and Middle Atlantic States. During this three-year grant period, about 500 pages of archives from the period 1659-1662 will be translated and annotated for eventual publication by Syracuse University Press, while more than 1,100 pages from the period 1638-1660 will be published on-line.
Grant: 191327 / RZ-50836-08, Category: American History, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 2008 - $70,000
New Netherland Project: Translating and Editing of New Netherland Archives
Recipient: Gehring, Charles T (Albany, NY 12230 USA) in affiliation with University of the State of New York (Albany, NY 12234 USA)
Goal: Transcription, translation, and annotation of 17th-century Dutch records of the colonial government of New Netherland. (12 months)
Description: The New Netherland Project will translate 17th-century Dutch records of the colonial government of New Netherland. Written in an archaic form of Dutch, these historically significant documents are effectually unavailable to researchers because of the language barrier. This project will provide access to original colonial archives of continuing legal and historical importance relating to all the New England and Middle Atlantic States. During this 3-year grant period about 1,000 pages of archives from the period 1659-1662 will be translated and annotated for eventual publication by Syracuse University Press.
Grant: 186381 / RZ-50749-07, Category: American History, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 2007 - $58,000
Van Rensselaer Manor Papers
Recipient: Ebert, Loretta (Albany, NY 12230 USA) in affiliation with New York State Library
Goal: Conservation treatment and rehousing of the earliest family correspondence, accounts and other materials from the Van Rensselaer Manor Papers. The collection details Dutch colonial heritage in America from 1630 to the late 19th century.
Grant: 184491 / PT-50063-07, Category: Archival Management and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Save America's Treasures, Year Awarded: 2007 - $1,000
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation: A Traveling Exhibition
Recipient: Redmond, Mary (Albany, NY 12230 USA) in affiliation with New York State Library
Goal: A traveling panel exhibition that incorporates more than 60 rare documents and drawings and the latest scholarship on Lincoln's role in the emancipation of slaves during the Civil War.
Grant: 181746 / LI-50011-06, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Libraries Implementation, Year Awarded: 2006 - $1,000
Jazz Legacy: An American Art Form
Recipient: McLaughlin, LaVerne L (Albany, GA 31705 USA) in affiliation with Albany State University
Goal: Implementation of a film viewing and discussion program about the history and interpretation of jazz.
Grant: 182311 / LI-50084-06, Category: Arts History & Criticism, Division: Public Programs, Program: Libraries Implementation, Year Awarded: 2006 - $300,000
Creating an Online Research Collection on New York's Latino/Hispanic History
Recipient: Roe, Kathleen D (Albany, NY 12230 USA) in affiliation with New York State Education Department (Albany, NY 12234 USA)
Goal: 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.
Grant: 174357 / PA-51232-05, Category: History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2005 - $82,000
Conservation Treatment of Revolutionary War Collection
Recipient: Roe, Kathleen D (Albany, NY 12230 USA) in affiliation with New York State Education Department (Albany, NY 12234 USA)
Grant: 176435 / PT-50027-05, Category: American History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Save America's Treasures, Year Awarded: 2005 - $3,500
Library Preservation Survey
Recipient: Rich-Wulfmeyer, Rebecca D (Albany, NY 12210 USA) in affiliation with Albany Institute of History and Art
Goal: A general preservation assessment of the library collections and the physical facility housing documents and objects related to the history of Albany and the Hudson Valley since the 18th century.
Grant: 172532 / PA-51089-05, Category: Library Science, Archival Management, and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2005 - $680,866
New York State Newspaper Project: Cataloging and Microfilming
Recipient: Ebert, Loretta (Albany, NY 12230 USA) in affiliation with University of the State of New York (Albany, NY 12234 USA)
Goal: The cataloging of 5,600 newspaper titles and the preservation microfilming of about 600,000 pages of deteriorating newsprint, as part of New York's participation in the United States Newspaper Program.
Grant: 167955 / PA-50581-04, Category: Education, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2004 - $77,722
Early Bronze Age Excavations at Sotira Daminoudhia, Cyprus
Recipient: Swiny, Stuart (Albany, NY 12222-0001 USA) in affiliation with SUNY Research Foundation, Albany (Albany, NY 12222 USA)
Goal: Excavation of a unique Early Bronze Age (ca. 2250 BCE) structure at Sotira Kaminoudhia, in Cyprus, to determine whether it was a ceremonial complex.
Description: The goal of the project is to obtain through excavation additional information on the activities which took place inside a unique architectural unit on the outskirts of the Early Bronze settlement of Sotira Kaminoudhia. Prior fieldwork completely uncovered the four room complex, known as Unit 12, and yielded a wealth of information on its architectural arrangements and the objects it contained. The layout of the spaces, the eclectic array of finds and notable gaps in the repertory set this structure apart from all others excavated here or elsewhere on the island. Comparison of the data with slightly later Middle Bronze Age ceramic models and Late Bronze Age religious structures suggest that this was a ceremonial complex, the first ever recorded from Early Bronze Age Cyprus. Supporting evidence for this interpretation would become available through the study of the discarded debris which accumulated in the wide street outside, the only means of access to Unit 12. Unless this street is excavated and the finds carefully investigated, the ritualistic interpretation of Unit 12 will remain forever open to speculation and it will never be known whether this building housed a precursor of the fertility cults for which Cyprus was famous throughout the Greco-Roman world. One seven-week field season will suffice to collect the data for a multi-disciplinary six-week laboratory study the following year in preparation for publication of the results in a monograph series.
Grant: 170925 / RZ-50301-04, Category: Archaeology, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 2004 - $4,638
Needs Assessment Survey for New York State Museum's Anthropology Collections Documentation
Recipient: Drooker, Penelope B (Albany, NY 12230 USA) in affiliation with University of the State of New York (Albany, NY 12234 USA)
Goal: Consultation with an archivist for a preservation needs assessment of the accession files and other documentation for 3,000 ethnographic objects and two million archaeological artifacts in the New York State Museum Anthropology Collection.
Grant: 167374 / PA-50225-04, Category: Archival Management and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2004 - $500,000
Albany Institute Endowment Campaign
Recipient: Miles, Christine M (Albany, NY 12210 USA) in affiliation with Albany Institute of History and Art
Goal: To support endowment for the position of Chief Curator, humanities programs, and environmental control costs.
Grant: 92431 / CH-20934-03, Category: Humanities, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants, Year Awarded: 2003 - $120,806
Nahuatl Theater from Colonial Mexico
Recipient: Burkhart, Louise M (Albany, NY 12222-0000 USA) in affiliation with SUNY Research Foundation, Albany (Albany, NY 12222 USA)
Goal: Preparation of three volumes of a four-volume series that will make available edited translations of dramatic works in Nahuatl, the Aztec language of indigenous Mexico. (36 months)
Description: This project will produce a reference collection of texts, translations, and analyses of the colonial Nahuatl (Aztec-language) theater that developed in Mexico as Spanish and indigenous writers scripted plays on Christian themes and adapted European plays for native audiences. Nahuatl, a lingua franca in the Aztec Empire and the Spanish colony, is the only native language in which colonial dramas survive. A series of four volumes, plus an English-only student volume, has been accepted by the University of Oklahoma Press. Volume 1 is complete; during the grant period volumes 2 and 3 will be completed and research and translation work for volume 4 will be prepared. volume 2 features Spanish Golden-Age dramas that were adapted into Nahuatl; Volume 3 foucuses on dramatizations of the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Grant: 162816 / RZ-50012-03, Category: Latin American Literature, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 2003 - $260,628
Creating an Electronic Research Collection on New York's Environmental History
Recipient: Roe, Kathleen D (Albany, NY 12230 USA) in affiliation with New York State Education Department (Albany, NY 12234 USA)
Goal: The creation of Internet-accessible finding aids for 102 collections and associated graphics focusing on the environmental history of Adirondack and Catskill parks, 1885-1990.
Grant: 158336 / PA-24119-02, Category: History, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation/Access Projects, Year Awarded: 2002 - $1,000
Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
Recipient: Armstrong, Roberta R (Albany, NY 12222 USA) in affiliation with SUNY Research Foundation, Albany
Grant: 155300 / GL-22076-02, Category: History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Division: Public Programs, Program: Libraries and Archives, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 2002 - $200,000
Translation and Editing of New Netherland Archives
Recipient: Gehring, Charles T (Albany, NY 12230 USA) in affiliation with University of the State of New York (Albany, NY 12234 USA)
Goal: To support translation and annotation of documents produced by or bearing on the colonial governments of New Netherland and New York during the period 1654-1680.
Grant: 161763 / RZ-20686-01, Category: Languages, Division: Research Programs, Program: Collaborative Research, Year Awarded: 2001 - $25,927
Junctures: African and Caribbean Cultures in the New World
Recipient: Hill, James L (Albany, GA 31705-2796 USA) in affiliation with Albany State University (Albany, GA 31705 USA)
Goal: A faculty and curriculum development initiative at this historically black university.
Grant: 157683 / HI-20841-01, Category: Area Studies, Division: Education Programs, Program: Presidentially Designated Institutions, Year Awarded: 2001 - $3,000
Archives Assessment and Training
Recipient: Blagg, Margaret (Albany, TX 76430 USA) in affiliation with Old Jail Art Center
Goal: A preservation workshop for staff, volunteers, and members of the public and an assessment of archival collections of 19th- and 20th-century regional history. (12 months)
Grant: 157531 / HA-20160-01, Category: Archival Management and Conservation, Division: Preservation and Access, Program: Preservation - Assistance Grants (ER Title Ib), Year Awarded: 2001 - Endowment for the humanities grants to city Albany; items 1-21 of 114 with a total funding of $3,040,509.