The Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board has awarded Historical Records Preservation Grants to ten Illinois historical records repositories to develop and/or carry out projects to identify, preserve, access and use historical records in Illinois. The following organizations received grants for their historical records projects.
Bloomington: McLean County Museum of History
Preserve and Create Public Access to A. L. Pillsbury Collection
$4,999 to purchase storage cabinets to properly organize and preserve the architectural renders and documents related to central Illinois architect Arthur L. Pillsbury.
Chicago: Chicago Film Archives, NFP
Processing Morrison-Shearer 16 mm Films
$4,000 to stabilize and catalog the final series of 16 mm films in the Morrison-Shearer film collection.
Coal City: Coal City Public Library District
Coal Reports of Illinois First District Index
$2,500 to hire staff to create a searchable online index of names of casualties in the First District as published in the Coal Reports of Illinois 1882-1927.
Decatur: Decatur Public Library Foundation
Preservation of Local History
$3,000to hire a consultant to create a “Local History Collection Mission Statement” with forms on accepting donations and a process on handling items to be added to the collection.
Elmhurst: Theatre Historical Society of America
Photographic Negative and Transparency Re-housing Project
$3,500 to purchase archival enclosures and boxes to re-house photographic slides and photographic negatives and transparencies.
Geneseo: Geneseo Historical Museum
Geneseo Historical Museum Archival Project
$764 to catalog and preserve photographs, documents, and other primary source materials.
Lake Bluff: Vliet Center for Lake Bluff History
The Vliet Center Historical Map and Oversized Materials Digitization Project
$600 to purchase a Sandusky flat file for the safe storage of the center’s maps and oversized documents.
Monmouth: Monmouth College
Photography Collection Project
$2,650 to develop a detailed processing plan that addresses the needs of the 58-linear-foot collection: physical organization; intellectual control; description; preservation; and digitization.
Murphysboro: General John A. Logan Museum
Digital Imaging of the General John A. Logan Collection
$3,000 to purchase a scanner to produce digital images of the documents, photographs and maps in the General John A. Logan Museum’s archival collections in order to add images to collections files and to store images on an off-site server.
Rock Island: Rock Island County Historical Society
RICHS Photograph Collection Identification, Access and Preservation Project
$2,372 to purchase a thermohygrometer and archival folders and envelopes to process and preserve a collection of commercial photographs that depict Rock Island County businesses and the Quad Cities International Airport.
Funding for the ISHRAB Historical Records Preservation Grant program was provided by a State and National Archival Partnership grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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