Massachusetts Grants
NHPRC Grants by State and Territory
These Massachusetts grants span 1976 - 2008.
Records Projects
Tufts University, Medford, MA
$149,974 to support an accessioning program for electronic records. (RE10005-08)
City of Boston, Boston, MA
$113,400 to implement a city-wide archives and records management program, including the creation of a general finding aid to all 14,000 linear feet of records. (RA10057)
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
$84,729 to support the second year of its African American and Latino History project. (RA05605-06)
Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
$143,050 to process the personal papers of Sterling Clark, businessman and art collector, and the institutional records of the institute. The Sterling Clark Papers, which cover the period 1912-1950 and total 83 linear feet, include correspondence, diaries, journals related to art purchases, records of early appraisals of works of art, receipts, and glass plate negatives.
(RA05645-06)
City of Boston, Boston, MA
$113,861 to arrange, describe, and publish a finding aid on the Internet to approximately 250 cubic feet of records relating to the desegregation era of the Boston City Schools. (2005-085)
City of Newton, Newton, MA
$20,237 to preserve and make accessible to the public three centuries of municipal records in the Newton City Archives. (2005-042)
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
$89,985 to process and make available 436 cubic feet of manuscripts relating to Latino and African American communities in Boston. The records from six nonprofit organizations will add to those of the university. (2005-055)
Tufts University, Medford, MA
$196,908 for the Fedora and the Preservation of University Records project, to test the capabilities of the Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture) software to serve as an electronic records preservation system at the Digital Collections and Archives of Tufts University and the Manuscripts and Archives section of the Yale University Library. (2004-083)
Smith College, Northampton, MA
$182,091 for the Archiving the Records of the YWCA of the USA project, to process and make available 813 linear feet of the YWCA dating from 1860 to 2003. A records management program will also be initiated in order to help ensure that historically valuable records created at the YWCA national office in Washington, DC, continue to be preserved. (2004-098)
Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board, Boston, MA
$100,000 for a regrant project to continue to assist local repositories, increase the accessibility of historical records, improve the documentation of Massachusetts history, develop networks that can have a long-term impact on records and the historical records community, and implement the SHRAB's 1999 strategic plan. (2004-021)
Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board, Boston, MA
$18,800 in partial support of two regional meetings of the New England boards. (2004-013)
City of Somerville, Somerville, MA
$15,400 to help develop a strategic plan for managing the
city's records and ensuring that records with enduring value are properly preserved. (2003-101)
City of Boston, Boston, MA
$79,701 for its Public Schools Desegregation-Era Records Project
to arrange, describe, and publish a Web-based finding aid to some 400 cubic feet of records
relating to the desegregation era in city schools. (2003-070)
Massachusetts Historical Records Advisory Board, Boston, MA
$50,000 for a regrant project
to continue to assist local repositories, to increase the accessibility of historical
records, to improve the documentation of Massachusetts, to develop networks that can have a
long-term impact on records and the historical records community, and to implement the board's strategic plan. (2003-002)
Immigrant City Archives, Lawrence, MA
$24,663 for its Essex Company Collection Preservation
Project to organize, describe, and make available its Essex Company Collection; to deal with
photographic images in the collection; and to produce a curriculum unit based on the
collection. (2002-081)
New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA
$84,603 for its Archives Development Project
to establish an archives and records management program. (2002-078)
Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board, Boston, MA
$20,000 in partial support
of the board's administrative expenses for two years. (2002-031)
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
$142,239 for its Archival Research Fellowships
Program, to be instituted on behalf of itself, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Northeastern University, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and the WGBH Educational
Foundation. (2001-094 and 2001-080)
American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA
$92,025 for its Manuscript Collections Access
Project to support the cataloging and electronic dissemination of information about the
museum's 740 manuscript collections and the processing of 25 of these collections that
remain unarranged and undescribed. (2001-082)
The Global Industry Interagency Group, Woburn, MA
$199,998 for its Good Electronic
Recordkeeping Practices Project to pull together from the best available knowledge and
practices Good Electronic Records Practices for the long-term preservation of and access to
electronic records. (2001-032)
Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA
$39,275 to improve access to and
preservation of the 5, 884 images making up the Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell
Gleason Photographic Negatives (Gleason Collection). (2000-107)
Massachusetts Historical Records Advisory Board, Boston, MA
$150,000 for its SHRAB
Collaborative Action Regrant Project to help local repositories increase the accessibility
of historical records, improve the documentation of Massachusetts history, develop
networks that can have a long-term impact on records and the historical records community,
identify permanent funding sources for outreach and grant programs, and revise the
strategic plan. (99-069)
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
$153,155 for a project to identify, locate,
and secure collections for four under-documented Boston communities-the African American,
Chinese, lesbian and gay, and Puerto Rican-and to arrange and describe three major
collections documenting organizations from three of these communities. (98-100)
Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA
$7,547 for a 12-month project to provide
access to and preserve 1, 735 negatives (1870-1937) contained in five collections. (97-063)
WGBH Foundation, Boston, MA
$60,000 to develop and build support for a Universal
Preservation Format (UPF) for audio and video digital recordings. (97-029)
Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board, Boston, MA
$69,302 for an
18-month, strategic planning project to consider the board's mission and goals, identify
strategic issues, and involve stakeholders in developing an action agenda and plan. (97-024)
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
$59,833 to process and make accessible the
records of Freedom House, a community-based social agency in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
and the personal papers of its founders, Muriel and Otto Snowden. (96-062)
Project Web Site
Five Colleges, Incorporated, Amherst, MA
$41,760 for a three-year project to help
secondary school teachers probe the history of slavery and emancipation via primary
documents and to enable them to use these primary documents in their classrooms. (95-108)
Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA
$59,487 to improve local control over,
physical storage of, and national and regional access to the 800 linear feet of archival
and manuscript materials that comprise the Vault Collection. The Vault Collection includes
the papers of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as account books,
parish records, and diaries depicting everyday life in Concord since the 18th century.
Collection descriptions will be entered into RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network),
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), and the regional Minuteman Library Network. (95-048)
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
$52,834 to implement a
preservation program for more than 3,700 daguerreotypes (ca. 1840-1865) housed at 14
repositories throughout the university, to improve accessibility to the images by
providing consistent bibliographic descriptions of the collections, and to create
surrogate images of approximately 700 items for research use. (95-044)
Project Web Site
Boston College, Thomas P. O'Neill Library, Chestnut Hill, MA
$2,000,000 to
enhance, preserve, and improve computerized access to the library's research,
instructional and government documents collections. (95-028)
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
$46,182 for a one-year
project to process the approximately 450 cubic feet (1938-92) that make up the records of
the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. (94-110)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
$61,509 for a 16-month
project to create approximately 600 collection-level MARC AMC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging
Archival and Manuscripts Control) format records using the Research Libraries Information
Network (RLIN). The RLIN records also will be loaded into BARTON, the MIT Libraries'
online catalog. (94-108)
WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA
$48,540 for a one-year project to gain
intellectual control over approximately 635 linear feet of records of the Lowell Institute
Cooperative Broadcasting Council (1945-58) and the WGBH Educational Foundation (1951-90). (94-096)
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA
$37,232 for a one-year project to process
and make accessible 117 cubic feet of institutional records and 23 cubic feet of manuscript materials. (94-087)
Lasell College, Newton, MA
$1,500 to hire a consultant to assist the college with
plans to develop an archives and records management program for its records. (94-086)
Berkshire County Historical Society, Pittsfield, MA
$27,965 for a 15-month project
to develop an archival program for the society's collections. (94-052)
Radcliffe College, Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, MA
$30,850 to host an
archival administration fellowship. (93-049)
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
$85,164 to appraise,
arrange, and describe 1,400 cubic feet of the archives of the Unitarian Universalist
Association and two predecessor organizations, the Universalist Church of America and the
American Unitarian Association, and to prepare retention guidelines for the active
records. (92-140)
City of Gloucester, Gloucester, MA
$30,333 to develop an archives and records
management program for the city's records. (92-114)
Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
$19,600 to establish a formal
archival program at the cemetery, arrange and describe the archival records of the
cemetery, and prepare a procedures manual for the care of garden cemetery records. (92-109)
City of Gloucester, Gloucester, MA
$3,000 for a consultant to advise on the
establishment of an archives and records program. (91-078)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston, MA
$37,300 to establish an archives and records management program. (90-115)
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA
$152,787 to prepare a publication
on the functional and institutional components of the U.S. health care system, with
additional information on documentary issues and problems specific to these functions and
institutions. (90-037)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston, MA
$3,450 for consultation on the appraisal and
placement of its archival records and the establishment of a records management system. (90-004)
Metropolitan District Commission, Boston, MA
$48,843 to bring its records under
control by developing retention schedules; surveying, appraising, describing, and
preserving those records; and transferring original documents to the State Archives. The
MDC has jurisdiction over parks, reservoirs, and similar public works in the Boston area. (88-113)
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
$67,580 to assess the
current status of archival descriptive standards, identify standards that need to be
developed, prepare a handbook of practical information about standards, and address
other issues relating to standards development and implementation. (88-105, 88-105S, 91-050S)
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA
$31,390 to develop an archives and records
management program at the museum, including long-range planning for continuation of the
program. (88-096)
American Mathematical Society, Cambridge, MA
$4,668 to hire a consultant to survey
the records of the society and to recommend approaches to developing a records management
program. (88-036)
Forbes Library, Northampton, MA
$2,750 for a consultant to evaluate the papers of
President Calvin Coolidge held by the library and to recommend preservation and access
measures for them. The Forbes Library is the largest repository of Coolidge papers outside
of the Library of Congress. (87-120)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
$54,204 to support development of an
archives and records management program for the museum's records and other manuscript
materials relating to individuals who were driving forces in establishing art collections
in the late 19th-century United States. (87-119)
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
$11,718 to microfilm the Mary Lyon papers
and a collection of letters from leading educators in 19th-century New England relating to
the development of women's education. Included are letters of Catharine Beecher, Emma
Willard, Joseph Emerson, Amos Eaton, and Edward Hitchcock. (87-107)
City of Boston, Boston, MA
$40,000 for development of Boston's municipal archives
program. (86-125)
Peabody Museum of Salem, Salem, MA
$21,000 to preserve and make available the
museum's maritime history manuscript collections. The collections document the
participation of Salem and New England in the lucrative trade with Africa, Asia, and
Oceania from the late-17th century through the 19th century. (86-120)
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Boston, MA
$24,218 to prepare a guide to the
archival records of the Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1630 to date. (86-042)
City of Boston, Public Facilities Commission, Boston, MA
$75,000 to establish a
municipal archives, covering 350 years of city government. (85-091)
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
$4,139 to preserve and make available
glass negatives in the Henry Wheeler, Arthur Shurcliff and Francis Blake collections.
Included are negatives of important historical buildings in many Massachusetts towns, and
negatives depicting the work of Shurcliff, a noted landscape architect. (84-122)
Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA
$23,236 to preserve and make
available portions of its manuscript and photograph holdings and to establish an archival
program for these holdings, and to inventory, identify, and store 200 reels of
microfilm discovered during an earlier project. (84-096)
Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA
$27,220 to prepare an
administrator's guide to preservation microfilming. (84-090)
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
$203,313 to conduct a
comprehensive survey of Harvard University's holdings of archives and manuscript materials,
and to enter survey data into the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN), the
national on-line computer system of the Research Libraries Group. (84-088, 85-111)
Smith College, Northampton, MA
$2,150 for a consultant to advise on preservation,
arrangement, description, and future accessions of photographs in the Sophia Smith
Collection and the Smith College Archives. (84-065)
Springfield City Library, Springfield, MA
$9,000 to arrange and describe
historical records relating to the growth and development of Springfield and other
Connecticut Valley communities, and to train library staff in archives management. (83-042)
Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA
$10,000 to offer eight
hands-on conservation workshops in the center's service region. (83-041)
Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA
$5,000 for consultation and
meetings to plan a national study and develop guidelines on methods of duplicating
historical photo negatives. (82-030)
Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA
$12,945 to provide practical
training in conservation planning for records custodians in the northeastern United States.
(82-029)
National Conservation Advisory Council, Cambridge, MA
$7,750 to draft a formal
standard for protective environmental conditions for storage of paper-based library and
archival holdings. (82-025)
McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA
$20,730 to establish an archives for the hospital,
one of the oldest institutions in the United States for the care of the mentally ill. (81-154)
Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, North Andover, MA
$18,180 to complete a project
to arrange and describe its collections, which relate to the American textile industry,
and to prepare easily updated final inventories using word-processing equipment. (81-149)
Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board, Boston, MA
$24,687 to
analyze the current condition of historical records in the state, identify problems,
frame potential solutions, and outline actions that can be taken. (81-118)
University of Massachusetts/Boston Harbor Campus, Boston, MA
$5,772 for a
feasibility study leading to the survey of records of Boston area charity and community
organizations. (81-064)
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
$3,059 to microfilm early records of
the Massachusetts School of Nursing. (81-050)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
$20,728 to arrange and describe the
papers of prominent African-American educator Horace Mann Bond (1904-72) and his family,
including his father, James, and his sons, James and Julian. (80-120)
Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, North Andover, MA
$13,085 to inventory and begin
work on a guide to the manuscript holdings of the museum, which relate to the American
textile industry. (80-099)
Massachusetts Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records (COPAR),
Cambridge, MA
$20,482 to conduct a field survey of architectural records in
private hands in the Boston area. (80-083)
New England Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA
$9,650 for conservation
seminars and workshops in New York, New Jersey, and New England, for an audience of
archivists, records custodians, librarians, and historical society personnel. (80-080)
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, MA
$31,174 to
convert endangered nitrate negatives to safety film. The negatives, produced from the
1890s to the 1930s, relate to New England architectural history and include systematic
photo surveys of entire areas. (80-053)
Social Law Library, Boston, MA
$72,869 for conservation of additional records of
the Suffolk Inferior Court of Common Pleas, 1692-1830, as part of the library's Colonial
Court Records Project and the Massachusetts Judicial Records Commission's plan for a
statewide court records conservation program. (79-100)
Massachusetts Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records (COPAR),
Cambridge, MA
$5,880 for a pilot project to survey architectural records in private
hands and in architectural offices in the Boston area, and to lay the groundwork for
additional surveys and accessions. (79-076)
New England Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA
$32,971 to further develop
the center's microform consulting and production services program. (79-061)
Immigrant City Archives, Lawrence, MA
$11,000 to survey, accession, preserve,
and process records relating to ethnic communities in Lawrence. (79-056, 80-059)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
$5,640 for restoration of
architectural theses and drawings in the M.I.T. Historical Collections. (79-039)
County of Franklin, Greenfield, MA
$14,456 for the survey, description, and
conservation of municipal records throughout Franklin County. (79-028)
Radcliffe College, Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, MA
$16,270 in support of its
Archives of Women's Organizations program. (79-004)
Clark University, Worcester, MA
$14,760 to process, preserve, and prepare a
register to the papers of Robert H. Goddard and Esther K. Goddard relating to early
technical and theoretical work in rocketry. (78-126)
Ashfield Historical Society, Ashfield, MA
$31,900 for preservation, duplication,
and description of selected glass plate photo negatives in the Howes Brothers collection.
These photos, ca. 1880-1907, document many aspects of life in the Connecticut River
Valley. (78-124)
Massachusetts Judicial Records Committee, Boston, MA
$57,935 to develop verified
sampling techniques applicable to case files in the post-1859 records of the Superior Court
of Massachusetts. (78-110)
King's Chapel, Boston, MA
$3,200 for an archival consultant to advise on the
appraisal, arrangement, and description of the records of King's Chapel, an active
church since the late-17th century. (78-105)
Massachusetts Archives Advisory Commission, Boston, MA
$8,500 to continue a
Massachusetts historical document survey, to conduct workshops in archival inventory
techniques, and to refine a statewide historical records preservation plan. (78-098)
Social Law Library, Boston, MA
$37,787 to preserve records of the Suffolk Inferior
Court. (78-013)
Archdiocese of Boston, Boston, MA
$42,820 to hire a professional archivist to
develop an archival program for the records of the archdiocese, arrange and describe the
archives of the archdiocese, publish a guide to its holdings, and refine policies and
procedures for an ongoing archival program. (78-012, 79-030)
New England Document Conservation Center, North Andover, MA
$73,745 to develop an
archival microform capability and an archival microform consulting service. (77-124)
Historic Newton, Newton, MA
$22,400 for inventory, appraisal, and basic
preservation activities for the records of the City of Newton, a community which separated
from Cambridge in 1679. (77-121)
Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board, Boston, MA
$13,400 to
support a survey of archival repositories in Massachusetts and to develop a comprehensive
statewide records preservation plan. (77-101)
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
$1,705 to
microfilm for preservation the letterbooks of Louis Agassiz, a major figure in American
science in the mid-19th century and founder of the museum, and his son Alexander,
second director of the museum. (77-098)
Massachusetts Judicial Records Committee, Boston, MA
$7,835 to survey the
historical records of the Massachusetts Superior Court and its predecessors dating back to
1692, publish an inventory of the records, and make recommendations toward an improved
historical records program for the Superior Court System. (77-091)
New England Document Conservation Center, North Andover, MA
$5,800 for support of
regional conservation seminars in the New England states. (77-070)
New England Document Conservation Center, North Andover, MA
$11,850 for support of
the center's conservation training program. (77-069)
Radcliffe College, Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, MA
$26,302 to arrange and
describe the records of the North Bennet Street Industrial School, which was founded in
Boston's North End in 1881 to offer vocational education and other programs to serve the
local immigrant population. (76-073, 77-123)
Subtotal (Records Projects) $6,572,965
Publications Projects
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
$3,343,596 for the Adams Family Papers. (1976-2008)
Project In Progress
Project Web Site
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
$55,000 to support a Fellowship at the Adams Family Papers. (DF10004-07)
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
$90,000 for subvention support for the Adams Papers. (through 2003)
Clark University, Boston, MA
$468,902 for the Documentary History of George Rapp's Harmony Society. (1982-91)
In Progress, Formerly Funded by NHPRC
Northeastern University Press, Boston, MA
$43,800 for subvention support for the Papers of Charles Sumner and the Diary of Elizabeth Drinker. (1991)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
$85,339 for the Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. (1980-90)
Project In Progress
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
$4,488 for subvention support for the Journal and Letters of James McKeen Cattell. (1981)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
$162,342 for the Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child. (1977-80)
Project Completed
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
$26,150 for the Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and Its Principal Leaders. (1975-78)
Project Completed
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
$16,165 for the Papers of W.E.B. DuBois. (1978)
Project Completed
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
$23,000 for Plymouth Court Records, 1686-1859. (1977)
Project Completed
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
$48,790 for the Papers Relating to the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham Families at the
Massachusetts Historical Society together with the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham
Family Papers in the Collection of Hugh Upham Clark, of Arlington, Virginia. (1976-77)
Project Completed
Subtotal (Publications Projects) $4,367,572
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