Past Grants Awarded

Support for the production of an annotated catalog of documents and artifacts related to the history of shipbuilding on the North River.

Creation of a finding aid for a collection of Jack Kerouac's papers recently gifted to the University.

Digitization of 30 reels of the Mansfield News, a local newspaper dating back to 1873.

Inventory and creation of a finding aid for Lee Historical Society's collection.

Reparation and digitization of the papers of Eugene Tappan (1840-1908), the town's first historian, and creation of a finding aid.

Inventory, organization, and digitization of items from the collection of photographer Winfried Sommerfeld.

A reorganization of archival documents and electronic inventories to create a searchable, accessible inventory for both scholars and the public.

Inventory and creation of a finding aid for recently obtained records from the Chester Square Area Neighborhood Association.

Inventory and creation of a searchable catalog of the Society's Photographic Collection.

Inventory and processing of the Fruitlands Shaker Collection of journals, church membership logs, sermons, and financial records.
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Necessary re-processing of a portion of the Denton Family Collection.

Inventory and make public their William Wood collection of photographs, maps, and publications.

Inventory and processing of the Douglas Historical Society's Coppola Collection.

Digitization of the local Sharon Advocate Newspaper archive and make it available online to patrons.

Inventory and scanning of Wistariahurst Museum's Holyoke and Carlos Vegas/Latino History Collections in order to provide a searchable documentation of Holyoke's black populations.

An inventory of the papers of Theresa-India Young, noted fiber artist, educator, community organizer, and activist.

Photographing and inventory of 260 eighteenth?century gravestones in Medfield's Vine Lake Cemetery.
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A project inventorying, processing, and digitizing the John Quinn AIDS Memorial Books in preparation for public programming and an online exhibit honoring people in the Boston area who died from HIV/AIDS related illnesses.

An inventory of artifacts from three local businesses and explore connections between skilled labor and buying power.

Creation of a catalog their collection of carriages and sleighs as part of establishing a professional framework for their collection and developing an interpretive focus on the material culture of Amesbury.

Inventory of up to three boxes of ephemera that document life in Annisquam between 1850 and 1950.

Inventory of research materials collected by various scholars and members of the organization during the past decade or so of pulling itself into being and obtaining a headquarters.

Processing of the papers of the Porter McLeod Machine Shop, an industrial company in a town that knows most about its agrarian past, and evaluate its potential for a series of programs, including as part of the HHS core exhibit.

Inventory and processing of the papers of Charles Shively, a gay activist and poet in the Boston area during the 1970s and early 1980s, who was actively involved in a number of early and influential gay and queer newspapers, including Gay Community News, Fag Rag, and Gay Sunshine.
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Inventory of six folders of ephemera and other materials about the community effort to build and launch the Valiant, the last fishing vessel that was built by a fishing family in their back yard in Nahant, between 1955 and 1965.
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Funding to inventory, evaluate, photograph and re-house their collection of 750 garments dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. Materials will be used in a digital presentation of their entire costume collection, an exhibit of WWI era clothing and a planned exhibit exploring the diversity of Norwood's participation in the Great War.

Funding to inventory the Leverett Town Meeting Record and Municipal Archives in order to asses and catalogue town collections for their research potential.

Funding to inventory, catalogue and preserve four boxes of records, invoices and papers from Baldwin's Extracts Company, est. 1865, ranging from the late 19th through early mid 20th centuries. The material will be part of an on-going series of talks and remembrances celebrating West Stockbridge and its families.

Funding to inventory, photograph, and index 39 family albums and scrapbooks made by village residents from pre- civil war time on. Selected albums will be featured in an upcoming exhibit about what life was like for families in the village during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Inventory, translation, and assessment of client files from the Harry H. Dow papers archived at the Suffolk Law School Library.

Scanning and inventory 1,000 photographic prints of New Englanders enjoying the outdoors between 1930-1950.

Inventory of 12 boxes of artifacts and records from the Proctor Comb and Button Manufacturing Company, a significant industry in the town from the mid-1800s into the early 1900s.

Inventory of negatives and photographs taken at Gardener's Colony for the Insane during the 1950s and 1960s and reproduce them in print for researchers and online for the public.

Preservation of the City of Lowell Division of Planning and Development Collection.

Awarded to catalogue, re-house, and transcribe the "Paul White documents," a group of about fifty documents that date from the 1740's to the early nineteenth century, with an eye towards future public programming.

Scanning, inventory, and electronic storage of more than 500 photographs in the Hassanamisco Indian Museum's collection.

Inventory of the archival pictures, research papers, and notes left by Helen Vanderhoop Manning, an Aquinnah Wampanoag leader, historian, and educator.

Surveyal of archives relating to the African-American history of Concord and its neighboring towns from 1750-1787 in preparation for programming at the newly restored Robbins House.

Inventory of the images relating to the annual Barrington Fair (c. 1841-1980) that are part of the Domenic and Marie Tassone photographic collection.

Inventory of the images relating to the annual Barrington Fair (c. 1841-1980) that are part of the Domenic and Marie Tassone photographic collection.