Wisconsin Grants
NHPRC Grants by State and Territory
These Wisconsin grants span 1978 - 2008.
Records Projects
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$89,756 to support planning for the collection of post-WWII Wisconsin manuscripts. (RC10006-08)
Regents of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$197,532 to support a three-year project to design and implement the Archival Leadership Institute. (DL10002-07)
Aldo Leopold Foundation, Inc., Baraboo, WI
$110,530 to support a two-year project to digitize the papers of 20th century ecologist and philosopher Aldo Leopold. (RD10006-07)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$14,380 in partial support of the Wisconsin SHRAB's administrative expenses. (RS10016-07)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$47,426 to support of the Wisconsin SHRAB's statewide planning. (2005-030)
Board of Regents, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$45,643 on behalf of the Center for the Study of the Upper Midwestern Cultures, to identify and describe multiformat ethnographic materials that document traditional folk cultures in the Upper Midwest. (2005-073)
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
$82,844 for the Western States Catholic Indian Records Survey. The purpose of the project is to identify, describe, and, where appropriate, preserve Catholic Church-related records about native people in the United States which are held by institutions and repositories in 14 Western states. These records comprise over 400 years of documentation. (2004-072)
Wisconsin Veterans Museum, Madison, WI
$110,278 to arrange, rehouse, and describe some 500 linear feet of records documenting the experiences of Wisconsin veterans from the Civil War to the present. (2003-075)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Golda Meir Library, Archives and Special Collections, Milwaukee, WI
$51,500 for a fellowship in archival administration. (2003-036)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$20,000 in partial support of the Wisconsin SHRAB's administrative expenses for two years. (2003-030)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$79,247 for its Photograph Collections Cataloging Project to produce collection-level descriptive entries for 3,000 processed photograph lots and to load those descriptions into an online catalog. (2002-065)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$103,841 to catalog and rehouse 2, 000 photograph collections totaling approximately 750, 000 images. (2000-074)
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI
$48,094 to catalog and create user copies of oral history tapes of various groups living in western Wisconsin. (2000-070)
Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board, Madison, WI
$100,359 for its Archives Repositories Assessment and Mentoring Project to strengthen the board's partnerships with statewide associations of records creators, keepers, and users. (2000-001)
Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board, Madison, WI
$53,328 for a
21-month project to build on and implement key parts of its recently completed five-year
strategic plan by strengthening partnerships between the board and three statewide organizations:
the Wisconsin Council for Local History, the Wisconsin Association of Public Librarians, and
the Wisconsin Registers in Probate Association. (97-012)
Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board, Madison, WI
$64,542 funding for an
18-month planning project to produce a strategic plan for managing and preserving Wisconsin's
historical records and to publicize the plan. (95-007)
Manitowoc Submarine Memorial Association, Manitowoc Maritime Museum, Manitowoc,
WI
$5,318 for a one-year project to make accessible 85 acetate-base films (ca. 1942-84)
depicting various shipping, boat-building, and recreational boating activities on the Great Lakes
by transferring them to videotape. (94-053)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board),
Madison, WI
$250,000 for a two-year regrant project focused on revitalizing the state's local
government records program. The project would provide regrants to local governments to
develop records management programs; prepare records inventories and retention schedules;
develop disaster plans; microfilm records; create local records manuals; process and describe
archival records; and conduct planning studies. (92-115)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Division of Archives and History, Madison, WI
$42,500 for a fellowship in archival administration. (92-072)
Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
$29,440 to develop an archival program in
conjunction with a records management program for the archdiocese's records. (91-123)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
$8,900 in partial support of a fellowship in
archival administration. (90-076)
Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
$43,500 to develop a
coordinated archival collecting and accessioning program for repositories in the Milwaukee area.
(89-060)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$68,764 to evaluate the physical
condition of and appraise, organize, and provide access to television newsfilm, ca. 1955 to 1972,
from four television stations in Madison. The main goal of the project is to develop and test
appraisal and description guidelines for the newsfilm. (88-115)
Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board, Madison, WI
$13,500 to support
travel and meeting expenses for the board, to plan statewide historical records programs, and to
improve the review process for NHPRC records proposals. (87-114, 87-114S)
Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee, WI
$44,944 to develop a municipal archives
program for Milwaukee. The project will evaluate records retention schedules, arrange and
describe existing holdings, and enter records series information into the Research Libraries
Information Network (RLIN) database. (87-097)
Midwest Archives Conference, Madison, WI
$7,075 to plan, implement, and evaluate a
group of special "hands-on" workshops. Topics to be covered include archival automation,
slide/tape and video production, basic conservation, and microfilm techniques. (86-019)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
$35,118 to preserve and describe still
photographs documenting television, film, and theater productions of historical significance
nationwide. (85-119)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$55,502 to develop and test a
comprehensive, coordinated archives and manuscripts collecting program for the society and its
Area Research Center network. (84-120)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$12,775 for a working conference of
representatives of institutions involved in development and implementation of the MARC AMC
(MAchine Readable Cataloging Archival and Manuscripts Control) format, resulting in a report
outlining institutional practices and discussing areas of conflict and consensus. (84-095)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$70,000 to develop and implement an
integrated on-line information management system for the administration of its archives and
manuscript holdings. (84-052)
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI
$20,419 for its pilot project to
train Native American archivists. (82-059)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$33,360 for the second and final phase
of a project to develop an archival program for machine-readable public records in the state.
(81-144)
Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board, Madison, WI
$25,000 to analyze the
current condition of historical records in the state, identify problems, frame potential solutions,
and outline actions that can be taken. (81-133)
University of Wisconsin System, Madison, WI
$40,006 for a cooperative project within the
university system to survey and inventory records in three major areas (financial, personnel, and
student aid) and to produce a manual on the appraisal and disposition of these records. (81-065)
City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
$28,460 to establish retention and preservation criteria
for tape recordings of city government activities. (81-043)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
$30,000 to locate, accession, and
process records of the Milwaukee area Polish-American community. (80-062)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
$34,595 to develop procedures to
schedule, accession, and retrieve information from machine-readable records of Wisconsin state
agencies. (80-008)
School Sisters of St. Francis, Milwaukee, WI
$8,240 to accession and process the
Generalate administrative records of the order, 1874-1966. (79-126)
Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
$29,067 for a historical
records assistance and awareness program, in which established Milwaukee area repositories
assist other records custodians in the preservation and administration of historical records.
(79-046)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$99,650 for the Midwest State
Archives Guide Project, an interstate cooperative project to develop common descriptive
methods and a shared information base for public records in the state archives systems in
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.(78-114, 80-071)
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Racine, WI
$30,461 for a records survey of
manufacturing firms in Racine and Kenosha, Wisconsin. (78-055)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$53,415 for a project, in cooperation
with the Departments of Administration, Local Affairs, and Development, to appraise and
develop retention schedules for municipal records in Wisconsin, and to work with local officials
toward improved municipal records programs. (78-049)
Subtotal (Records Projects) $6,617,666
Publications Projects
University of Wisconsin-Madison/Wisconsin History Foundation, Inc, Madison, WI
$467,130 for support of the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (1990-2009)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
$4,602,663 for the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Documentary History of the First Federal Elections. (1976-2009)
Project Completed
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$174,217 for subvention support for the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. (1980-2007)
Project In Progress
Model Edition Partnership Web Site
Sean Patrick Adams (Ph.D. candidate, University of Wisconsin), Madison, WI
$41,250 for a fellowship in historical editing at the Frederick Douglass Papers, West Virginia University, Morgantown. (1997)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$53,475 to prepare for the publication of "A Compendium of Practice for Historical Documentary Editing". (95-098)
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI
$21,953 for subvention support for the Documentary History of the First Federal Elections. (1985-90)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
$35,730 for The Wisconsin Progressives: The Papers of Richard T. Ely, Edward A. Ross, Charles McCarthy, Charles R. Van Hise, and John R. Commons. (1980)
Project Completed
Subtotal (Publications Projects) $5,396,418
TOTAL $12,014,084
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