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Farmstead photograph by Morgan McMillan. Courtesy of the Peter Wentz Farmstead.
Farmstead photograph by Morgan McMillan. Courtesy of the Peter Wentz Farmstead.
Mary Houghton measuring to create a protective enclosure for a rare book at Albion College. Courtesy of Albion College. Photo by Jake Weber.
Mary Houghton measuring to create a protective enclosure for a rare book at Albion College. Courtesy of Albion College. Photo by Jake Weber.
Preservation and Access
Grant Program
Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
Small and mid-size cultural repositories constitute the large majority of collecting institutions in the United States. These organizations often lack the resources to address the preservation needs of their collections. Preservation Assistance Grants improve an institution’s capacity to preserve its holdings and use its collections more effectively for work in the humanities. This program provides small and mid-sized libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations with grants of up to $6,000 to support onsite consultation by a preservation professional, enable staff to attend preservation training workshops and other educational events, or help purchase preservation supplies and equipment. In 2010, NEH celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Preservation Assistance Grants program.
Guidelines URL: www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pag.html
Projects

PG-50609, County of Montgomery (Worcester, PA):
Peter Wentz Farmstead Historic House Environmental Monitoring Project.
A 2009 grant to the Department of Parks and Heritage Services in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, supported consultation with a conservator and the purchase of equipment for monitoring environmental conditions at the Peter Wentz Farmstead, a historic site that documents life on an eighteenth-century German-American farm. Collections of household furnishings and personal effects are displayed in the Wentz family home, which was built in 1758.
Project URL: www.peterwentzfarmsteadsociety.org/index.html

PG-50619, Albion College (Albion, MI):
General Preservation Survey of Special Collections at
Albion College.
A 2009 grant to Albion College supported a general preservation survey of the college’s special collections, which consist of rare books and the archives of both the college and the West Michigan Conference of the United Methodist Church, from 1814 to the present. The rare books collection includes Americana, a 400-volume Bible collection, and modern first editions of American and British authors.
Project URL: campus.albion.edu/specialcollections/tag/grant/