Program

Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects

Period of Performance

5/1/2005 - 8/31/2007

Funding Totals

$340,000.00 (approved)
$340,000.00 (awarded)


Preserving the Charles "Teenie" Harris African-American Image Collection

FAIN: PA-51335-05

Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4007)
Louise W. Lippincott (Project Director: July 2004 to December 2007)

The arrangement, description, and minor repairs to 26,400 black-and-white photographic negatives that document African-American history and culture in Pittsburgh from 1935 through 1975. A searchable Internet-accessible catalog and finding aids would be created and 28,000 digitized positive images would also be mounted on the Internet.