Program

Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects

Period of Performance

9/1/2003 - 8/31/2006

Funding Totals

$208,343.00 (approved)
$208,343.00 (awarded)


Processing Collections that Document the History of Chicago in the 19th and 20th Centuries

FAIN: PA-50109-03

Newberry Library (Chicago, IL 60610-3305)
Martha T. Briggs (Project Director: July 2002 to March 2007)

The processing and rehousing of 21 collections (comprising over 600 feet of personal papers and organizational records) that document social, political, and cultural activity in Chicago during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Encoded finding aids for these collections and 25 related collections will be mounted on the Internet.