- $500,000
NEH Challenge Grant for Lower East Side Tenement Museum Endowment.
Recipient: Abram, Ruth J (New York, NY 10002 USA) in affiliation with Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Goal: Endowment for humanities programming, the museum's Web site, outside scholars, a collections management program, and the American Immigration Heritage Center.
Grant: 92375 / CH-20871-02, Category: Museum Studies or Historic Preservation, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants, Year Awarded: 2002 - $300,000
Purchase and Restoration of a Nineteenth-Century Tenement Building.
Recipient: Abram, Ruth J (New York, NY 10002 USA) in affiliation with Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Goal: To support the purchase and renovation of a nineteenth-century tenement building to expand exhibitions and programs interpreting immigrant life and culture.
Grant: 141356 / CH-20269-96, Category: American History, Division: Challenge Grants, Program: Challenge Grants, Year Awarded: 1996 - $50,000
Around the Kitchen Table (The Kitchen)
Recipient: Abram, Ruth J (New York, NY 10002 USA) in affiliation with Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Goal: To support three phases of conversations among community leaders, neighborhood residents, and museum visitors, focusing on the experiences of past and presentimmigrants to America.
Grant: 157380 / GS-20061-95, Category: Humanities, Division: Public Programs, Program: Enterprise Awards Pre 2001, Year Awarded: 1995 - $69,970
The Lower East Side Immigrant Heritage Trail: A Social History Walking Tour Series
Recipient: Abram, Ruth J (New York, NY 10002 USA) in affiliation with Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Goal: To support planning for a series of "living history" walking tours interpretingsix immigrant communities that existed on New York City's Lower East Side from 1850 to 1910.
Grant: 155547 / GM-23693-88, Category: Museum Studies or Historic Preservation, Division: Public Programs, Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 1988 - $215,000
A History of the American Woman Physician, 1835-1980
Recipient: Abram, Ruth J (New York, NY 10002 USA) in affiliation with American Medical Women's Association (New York, NY 10003 USA)
Goal: To support the implementation of a temporary exhibition interpreting major figures, events, institutions, and ideas in the history of women's entry into the American medical profession. The exhibition will open in Philadelphia and travel for three years to various sites, including Chicago and St. Louis.
Grant: 155332 / GM-22445-85, Category: American History, Division: Public Programs, Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 1985 - $15,000
Planning for an Interpretive Exhibit on the History of the American Woman Physician from 1835 to the Present (Planning)
Recipient: Abram, Ruth J (New York, NY 10002 USA) in affiliation with Paraphrase, Inc. (Bronx, NY 10463 USA)
Goal: To support planning for a traveling exhibition and other interpretive elements on the history of the American woman physician from 1835 to the present.
Grant: 134039 / GM-21503-83, Category: Women's Studies, Division: Public Programs, Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in, Year Awarded: 1983 - Endowment for the humanities grants to Abram, Ruth J; items 1-6 of 6 with a total funding of $1,149,970.