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• Digitizing and Re-Cataloging the Baltimore Gas & Electric Company Image Collection

  This two-year project will provide digital access to the approximately 500,000 images that make up the Baltimore Gas & Electric Company Image Collection. Working together with the museum's Director of Collections and Archivist, dedicated project staff members will digitize a large portion of the collection that has not been previously scanned (approximately 320,000 images) and create a consolidated cataloging system for the entire collection. Once available online, the newly scanned images and improved metadata will offer researchers an indispensable resource for studying the local and regional history of Baltimore.

• Hopewell Legacies: Unearthing Excavation Records from the Ceremonial Mounds of the Ohio Hopewell

  The Hopewell Legacies project aims to provide open access to archaeological excavation records to further scholarship on the ancient monumental earthwork constructions and large-scale ceremonial activities of the Ohio River Valley. During the first five centuries of the common era, intensified ceremonial practices among the Ohio Hopewell integrated many native societies in Eastern North America. Leveraging four strategic institutional partnerships (Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, Ohio History Connection, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, and the Center for Digital Antiquity), our primary goal is to provide sustainable access to records from the Hopewell Mound Group (1891-1892,1922-1925) and the Mound City Group (1920-21, 1963-1975). This collaboration will aggregate collections torn asunder by the vagaries of time and foster a new era of historical and archaeological scholarship.

• Tracking the Past: Unearthing America's Hidden Trolley Legacy through Digitized Images and Text

  This two-year-long project will digitize 4000 photographs, 3000 negatives, and 100 tourist booklets documenting the history of electric railways in the United States. The collections belong to the New England Electric Railway Historical Society (NEERHS). The project will be hosted at York County Community College (YCCC), with guidance and involvement from the University of New England's (UNE) Department of History and Philosophy. The major activity will be the digitization of images and text, and uploading the already-created metadata to the Digital Public Library of America through Digital Maine, a regional service hub for the Digital Public Library of America, and the Maine Memory Network. This project will bring to light a wealth of hidden and unique primary source material valuable to teachers and scholars interested in exploring the interconnections between what was once one of the largest industries in the U.S. and its impact on U.S. history and culture.

• Wassaja - A Carlos Montezuma Project: Digitization, Access, and Context for Yavapai Activist-Intellectual Carlos Montezuma Collections Held Across the Nation

  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 provide metadata for material from Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center. The materials, including the newsletter Wassaja Freedom's Signal for the Indian, which Yavapai activist-intellectual Carlos Montezuma, MD (1866-1923) self-published during 1916-1922, will be preserved in the ASU Digital Repository. An online exhibition, developed in conjunction with the ASU Nexus Lab, will provide context and facilitate community interaction, including work with the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, forming an unprecedented network of resources and institutions. Uploading these difficult-to-access resources online would be invaluable to scholars in the fields of the American Indian Progressive Era, activism, journalism, and Indians of the Southwest, in addition to American Indian communities affected by Montezuma's work and legacy.

• Boston Lives Matter: Freedom House and Black Activism, 1949-2004

  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 House records (1949-2004) will be individually identified and cataloged by graduate students overseen by a professional archivist. They will then be preserved in the Northeastern's Digital Repository Service, a publicly available Fedora-based repository, and harvested through Digital Commonwealth into the Digital Public Library of America. The collection includes bylaws, meeting minutes, flyers, annual reports, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and newsletters. When completed, this freely available digital collection will provide an invaluable resource for studying how the African American community in Boston fought for civil rights and social justice.

• The KNTV Channel 11 News Archive: Revealing the 1960s Experience in San Jose and the Salinas Valley

  History San José will digitize a portion of the KNTV Channel 11 news archive between May 1966 and June 1968, including 1500 16mm black and white films and 276 transcripts, comprising daily broadcasts of local, state, and national news. Nearly 4500 films and 22 linear feet of transcripts were donated to the San José Historical Museum in 1983 by the KNTV Station Controller, spanning years 1965-1980. KNTV was the first television station located in San José, covering the California coast from Monterey north to San Francisco. These original films, never before available for research, constitute new access to this important time period. A small portion of the films, starting with the first film of October 12, 1965 up to May 23, 1966, are being digitized through the grant-funded California Audiovisual Preservation Project. This two-year project will begin digitizing chronologically from that date to provide a linear historical record.

• James G. Swan, 19th Century Renaissance Man in the Pacific Northwest: Papers, Journals, and Correspondence from 1833 - 1909

  The University of Washington (UW), University of British Columbia (UBC), and Seattle's Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) propose a two-year project to digitize the three largest collections of James Gilchrist Swan's archival materials and make them available for the first time together via a freely-accessible online web portal. Swan (1818-1900), one of the most prolific chroniclers of Pacific Northwest pioneer life and Native American culture, was a tireless self-promoter who worked as businessman, anthropologist, teacher, judge, Indian agent, collector for the Smithsonian Institution, maritime commissioner, customs inspector, and Hawaiian Consul from the 1850s through the 1890s in Washington Territory, British Columbia, and Alaska. The project will digitize Swan's meticulously written diaries (1859-1898), voluminous correspondence, and other written and visual materials. Scholars in the disciplines of anthropology, ethnography, museology, political and social history, colonial studies, maritime studies, epidemiology, meteorology, and climate change will find rare treasures in this newly-consolidated collection.

• Balboa Park Virtual Library

  With 17 museums, nine performing arts venues, 19 beautiful gardens, and the world-famous San Diego Zoo, San Diego's Balboa Park contains an astonishing array of treasures, including 150,000 research volumes, 600,000 collections objects, 7 million specimens, 5.5 million photographs, 120 million historic documents, and 4,000 annual music and theatrical performances and films. In April 2015, the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) launched the Balboa Park Virtual Library project, an initiative to digitize and make accessible the Park's esteemed research libraries. Phase Two of the project (2016-2017) will focus on digitizing the San Diego Museum of Man and San Diego Natural History Museum's book collections and archival materials, such as photographs, field notes, and historic maps. This initiative will provide scholars and students with unprecedented access to Balboa Park's extraordinary science, anthropology, and cultural studies resources, which are currently available only to a handful of museum staff and researchers.

• Hiding in Plain Sight: Accessing an "Accidental Collection" of Films by Women Writers, Directors & Producers.

  Recent research at the University of Southern California documents the fact that women, although woefully under-represented in the mainstream film industry, are a strong presence among American independent filmmakers. Women film auteurs have been "hiding in plain sight" since the dawn of cinema, but scholarship is hobbled by the lack of a comprehensive catalogue of films by women, lack of sufficient funds for preservation, and limited access to the work. In 2014, the Laboratory for Icon & Idiom gained custody of an "accidental collection" of film negatives at DuArt Film & Video that includes hundreds of titles written, directed and/or produced by women. Working with the Women's Film Preservation Fund, Women Make Movies, and women graduates of NYU's & UCLA's film archive programs, LII has indexed and is proposing to scan up to 50 of these titles, including those by LGBT, African American, Asian American, Native America and Latina women.

• Yesterday's Farm, Today: 100 years of farming history at SUNY Cobleskill's Van Wagenen Library and the Schoharie County Historical Society

  Over the next three years, SUNY Cobleskill's Van Wagenen Library, in collaboration with the Schoharie County Historical Society, will publish 100 years of regional farming memorabilia, maps, and agricultural research, including nearly 90,000 photo negatives collected over the last 40 years by Harold Tolles, to meet the rising demand of farm-to-table practices currently fueling economic growth and academic research in Upstate New York. This partnership is particularly exciting as it allows access to material thought lost in the wake of 2011's Hurricane Irene. While the country came together to rebuild the many homes and businesses destroyed in Schoharie County, it was unable to replace the countless photo albums and regional artifacts lost during the hurricane. By digitizing our agricultural material we will meet the rising demand for our region's history and academic research, while protecting against future loss by providing students, farmers, genealogists, and historians access to invaluable scholarly material.

• Digitization, cataloging and access to the collection of Historical Speeches and Writings of Luis A. Ferré Aguayo

  The project encompasses the digitization, cataloging and access to the collection of speeches and writings by Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo (1904-2003), a prominent Puerto Rican man who was an engineer, industrialist, governor of Puerto Rico, musician, philanthropist, benefactor of the arts and founder of the Museo de Arte de Ponce. The objects are in custody of The Luis A. Ferré Historical Archive, located on the second floor of the Museum. The Historical Archive represents the largest collection of documents related to his life, work and legacy. At the present time, access to these valuable documents is only through physical intervention, which represents a high risk of deterioration for the objects of the collection. The project will enable the Historical Archive to strengthen its role as an important asset for research and investigation of Puerto Rican history in the 20th Century.

• The Oscar Adams Project: Oral History Interviews Documenting the Life and Work of Alabama Supreme Court Justice Oscar Adams (1925-1997)

  The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) seeks support to send 36 original VHS interview recording tapes to a vendor for digitization and metadata creation in order to ensure the collection's use and availability to scholars and the general public for years to come. The collection includes recordings of interviews with persons who knew and worked with Oscar Adams, Jr., Alabama's first African American Supreme Court Justice and also the first African American elected to statewide constitutional office. Adams litigated many civil rights cases in his career as a lawyer and was part of the first African American law firm established in the state. Access to these oral histories will contribute to scholarship on Oscar Adams, the legal community in Alabama, and the role of African American lawyers in the 20th century movement for civil and human rights in the United States.

• The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Collection: Digitizing the Artifacts, Letters, and Documents of America's 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison, including artifacts from his grandfather William Henry Harrison and other family members.

  The IUPUI University Library Center for Digital Scholarship will collaborate with the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site to digitize the documents, photographs, and artifacts of America's 23rd president. President Harrison served our country from 1889-1893, a period preceding the establishment of national Presidential Libraries. The collection at the Presidential Site encompasses American history though the Harrison family from the Revolution to the Gilded Age. The Presidential Site is a private, independently funded nonprofit museum dedicated to preserving and sharing Harrison's presidential legacy and largely hidden collection of more than 10,000 historical items. We propose to digitize 6,425 items from the collection, opening access to the world and safeguarding this piece of United States history for the future. A combination of digital and 3D printing will create a uniquely dynamic historical archive.

• Military Collection Veterans Oral History Interview Collection

  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 2014. The veterans oral history project has recorded interviews with veterans of all military engagements from World War I to the present. It is the largest veterans interview collection in North Carolina. This two-year project will digitize all audio and video interview recordings in its collection; create an online veterans oral history interface for the public; provide discoverable online metadata for the interviews; have many of the digitized oral history interviews transcribed or summarized; and make the interviews available through the NC Digital Collections and the Internet Archive. The project will also help the Military Collection asses the condition of the original audio recording formats, and plan for long-term physical storage of the recordings.

• Digitization and Creation of Online Access of General Electric Historical Photographs, 1880-1920

  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 on inventors, product development, installations of street lighting, and homefront response to World War I. Free online access will leverage existing relationships and utilize the New York Heritage online database, Digital Public Library of America, and miSci's own Vernon collections management system. miSci will hire two digitization technicians and three catalogers for the two years of the project. The project will take advantage of efficiencies in the both the scanning and metadata creation process. Scanning will be made efficient due to similar image sizes and types. Project catalogers will also take advantage of pre-existing guides and templates, as well as the caption, date, and subject information included on each GE photograph to increase cataloging efficiency.

• Archives and Artifacts: Uniting Liberian Scholarly Collections from Indiana University Libraries and Mathers Museum of World Cultures

  The project is a two-year endeavor by two units on Indiana University's Bloomington campus: Indiana University's Libraries' Liberian Collections, part of the African Studies Collection (IULC)and the Mathers Museum of World Cultures (MMWC). Archives and Artifacts will bring together the full range of materials from IULC donors, allowing scholars to access writings, photographs, and three-dimensional objects. Source materials are diverse, including field notes, correspondence, manuscripts, Liberian government and IGO reports, and photographs (IULC), and objects including sculpture, textiles, baskets, and pots (MMWC). The IULC work group will process and digitize paper and photographic materials. This includes attention to the physical resource--assessing and digitizing, and to information about the resource--recording associated metadata, creating or modifying finding aids. Object digitization by the MMWC work group follows the same pattern--care for the object and for the associated information. Quality control protocols will be in place throughout.

• Digitizing Science Friday Audio Segments: Interviews with Host Ira Flatow and Scientists, Innovators, Inventors, Technologists, and Engineers -- 25 Years of Multidisciplinary Science Dialogue

  Each week for nearly 25 years, award-winning public radio host Ira Flatow has interviewed scientists, mathematicians, inventors, health professionals, artists, Nobel laureates, and politicians on the latest scientific innovations and breakthroughs. Guests have included Carl Sagan, Jane Goodall, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Sylvia Earle, Oliver Sacks, Richard Leakey, and many other historic science figures and communicators. Science Friday's topics run the gamut of science and include overarching themes of environment, nature, health, neuroscience, psychology, space, mathematics, earth science, biology, physics, chemistry, engineering, and energy. Science Friday also regularly produces segments on science-themed art, history, culture, biographies, politics, ethics, and education. The show provides a unique history of changes over time -- such as the rise of the information age with the invention and widespread use of the World Wide Web; the shifting conversations and perspectives on climate change; and the unfolding advances of the biotechnology industry.

• "Alaska Review" Television Newsmagazine Programs and Raw Footage Digitization and Dissemination Project

  "Alaska Review," a publicly-funded television newsmagazine program airing in Alaska from 1976 to 1987, covered local, state and federal issues facing the young state during a period of intense growth and development. Topics ranged from the trans-Alaska pipeline to education in Indigenous communities. The Alaska Film Archives at University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Rasmuson Library holds all 63 "Alaska Review" finished programs, nearly 2,000 raw footage videos utilized in making the series, and related production documents. This two-year project aims to complete cataloging and digitizing of video materials, and to utilize open source media management software to provide online access to the full collection. This project will mirror successful access developments pioneered by UAF Rasmuson Library's oral history unit, and will benefit scholars in media studies, history, and community development. History students will participate, and the public can track project progress as it unfolds.

• New York Studio School Lecture Series: Video Archive Digitization

  The New York Studio School's extensive, historically significant Lecture Archive captures intellectual currents and cross-currents over 50 years with audio and video recordings of artists, musicians, poets, critics, historians, and scholars. We have already digitized all 790 lectures in the audio portion of the Archive and 200 of the ca. 1400 lectures in the video portion of the Archive. In order to ensure long-term preservation and accessibility of this unique cultural resource, we wish to digitize 1165 of the remaining lectures, so as complete all the prerequisite work for the final stage of our digitization project, in which we will create an Online Digital Archive with the entire Archive uploaded onto a webhost and ready to be posted for public access.

• Revealing the Network of Innovation: Digitizing and Unearthing the History of Science and Technology Research at the University of Illinois

  The University of Illinois Archives will embark on a two-year project to digitize and enhance access to archival material that captures the rich history of scientific and technological innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Work will focus on 1) digitizing correspondence that exposes scientific networks of communication and idea exchange, as well as historical research data, and 2) creating rich metadata and sharing it with University and national discovery platforms, such as Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and ArchiveGrid, promoting collection, folder, and item-level access to the digitized materials. As an early promoter of "industrial education," the University of Illinois has a long tradition of innovation in science and technology. Unearthing scientific networks of communication and materials that chronicle research projects and ideas will not only improve their discoverability, but also contribute to the production of new knowledge about the process of scientific research and innovation.

• North Dakota Pioneers 1880-2015: Documenting a Century of Immigration, Culture, and Heritage in Word, Image, and Sound

  Four Digital Horizons partner institutions (State Historical Society of North Dakota, North Dakota State Library, North Dakota State University, and Prairie Public Broadcasting) will digitize and create metadata for over 35,000 oral histories, photographs, recordings, books, and manuscripts on the diverse heritage and experiences of the people of North Dakota. The collections span the range of pioneer and immigrant experiences, from histories of its towns, counties, and churches to the experiences of its newest arrivals in the Bakken oil fields. These first-person accounts of the lived experiences of life on the prairie are enriched by photographs, documentaries, and historical records that portray the unexpected depth of the region's history and culture. Through this two-year project, these archival and media collections will be made freely-accessible to scholars, teachers, and students. Brought together with the existing collections in Digital Horizons, this rich resource will support traditional and digital scholarship across many disciplines.

• Digitizing, Creating Access to, and Electronically Preserving the Hidden Special Collections and Archives of the Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín, San Juan, Puerto Rico

  The FLMM is the multi-purpose, open to the public facility in San Juan, P.R., that contains the home, museum, visitor center, arboretum, and major Archival Collection of José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín, the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico, considered the statesman & founder of the modern Commonwealth. A U.S. Registered National Historic Site, it houses important archival collections, making it the equivalent to an American Presidential Library. The two year Project would enable FLMM to describe, electronically catalog, digitize, make electronically accessible, and digitally preserve, currently hidden collections unique to Puerto Rican, Caribbean, Latin American and U.S. history. Important to a wide-ranging scholarly community and partners as the University of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Association of Historians, the archives consists of the personal papers and governmental documents of statesman Luis Muñoz Marín, and donated personal or institutional collections related to the recent history, development and culture of Puerto Rico.

• "Hearts and Minds": Outtakes and Papers from a Groundbreaking 1970s Documentary Film

  In " 'Hearts and Minds': Outtakes and Papers from a Groundbreaking 1970s Documentary Film" we propose to make available unique, inaccessible audio footage and documents related to the 1974 Academy Award-winning documentary "Hearts and Minds" directed by Peter Davis and produced by Davis and Bert Schneider. Central to the film's profound effect on attitudes towards the Vietnam War were interviews Davis conducted with dozens of people from many professions, backgrounds and opinions, but only 1% of those recorded interviews are currently accessible, through the original film and a recent special edition re-issue. The documents in two related manuscript collections will be digitized as well, adding annotated interview transcripts, correspondence, legal documents and more to a rich set of materials publicly accessible to all seeking to understand this watershed moment in American history as well as the art, craft and science of creating, producing, and distributing a documentary film.

• The pioneering photographic archives from the expeditions of Dr. Roy Waldo Miner, Curator at the American Museum of Natural History from 1905-1943

  This project will digitize and disseminate the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science's unique collection of approximately 9,500 photographic images, primarily lantern slides, and glass plate and plastic negatives, from the 1920-1940 expeditions of Dr. Roy Miner, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History. Particularly significant in this collection are the pioneering underwater photographs taken with the assistance of Captain Charles Williamson who engineered the Williamson Submarine Tube. Disseminating these images will help scientists visualize changes in marine ecosystems while providing powerful outreach tools to communicate to the public how ecosystems are being lost. The Museum will partner with the University of Miami's (UM) Otto G. Richter Library (who will digitize, host, and provide long term preservation to the digitized resources) and faculty and students at the UM's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (who will annotate the metadata associated with the underwater and coral images).

• Digitization of the records of the Macbeth Gallery, 1838"’1968, the first art gallery in the United States dedicated to the promotion of American art, comprising 132.2 linear feet of correspondence, account books and other financial and inventory records, photographs, printed material, scrapbooks, and reference files.

  The Archives of American Art as a single institution will digitize the entirety of one of its richest and most voluminous collections for the study of American art history, the records of the Macbeth Gallery, which provide almost complete coverage of the New York City firm's operations from its inception in 1892 to its closing in 1953 through more than 132 feet of correspondence, financial records, photographs, exhibition catalogs, and other records. Online availability will support scholarship in multiple aspects of American art history, including the creation and sale of works of art, the development of reputations, the rise of museums and art societies, change and resistance to change in the market, and the evolution of taste. The 24-month project will leverage the Archives' existing large-scale digitization infrastructure and model wherein the existing finding aid provides descriptive and structural metadata and robust software applications support digitization workflows and online presentation.